Well, if it is being done, per the other article on the front page, we should be able to find it.

They are 20x productive on the old KPI.

And the product now iterate 2 times faster with 10 times more bugs and customers are pissed.

Looking at you Apple: https://aperocky.com/blog/post.html?slug=apple-watch-sucks

I'm just really surprised that 21% of Lynn's are boys.

claude-code is using a suspicious amount of memory and doesn't seem to care about optimizing it nearly as much as the others.

The source for Claude code leaked and it is total slop. They don’t even look at their own code.

harness is not a moat. CC is great, I mix it with codex with my own vibe coded messaging and hierarchy layer. Lately there are more CC because of Opus5.5 but Codex caught back up with Sol-6.1;

Codex also wins by consuming a lot less memory.

Unless they also have 750K tests like sqlite do, I can't imagine this will go well, even if/especially if the legacy code warrants a refactor.

Better than 750k tests is millions of customers! They’ll test it for you!

Microsoft has patented that approach!

And yet somehow, Windows 11 remains a steaming pile of incoherent garbage.

The only person fixing bugs at Microsoft is Raymond Chen and he's still patching windows 3.11

I should check to see if SimCity runs on Windows 11.

This is only because people disable telemetry and online accounts.

And in the end Microsoft removes the start button because their telemetry said that nobody clicks it[0] :)

[0] https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/why-microsoft-murder...

The only way to not make it garbage is do those thing.

it is indeed the users fault windows 11 is dogshit. facepalm

Why not use ai to update the tests first? Make sure the tests conform to the old codebase, then use those same tests to verify the new functionality?

Serious answer: A lot of times these legacy software are different from sqlite. To end to end test sqlite is a lot easier than a VPN client under distinct environments. It's simply a lot more costly and harder to setup or even possible to find all of these moving variables.

A change in behavior maybe construed as a bug, a breaking change or a regression, and a lot of time it's not so obvious. Sometimes you want the original behavior, sometimes you don't. Sometimes changing one for the better means another behavior needs to go, and you don't know if the user already depended on that other behavior. That's the real staying power of legacy software despite universal agreement that they suck.

With how shit their software is, it would be better if even if monkey pooped and smudged it on a screen.

The problem with rewrites are that even if the rewrites are ultimately good it will tend to first create bugs on an existing thing that are presently churning in a stable state.

The better way then comes with the drawback where one vendor has all the power.

Then someone would ask "there has to be a better way" again, when the reason for the new inconvenience gets forgotten, and it oscillates.

> My wife and I are expecting our first child.

> I once tried to come up with a single-word purpose for education, and I landed upon the word “resourceful” ...

As someone who's a little further ahead in this process, I realized the true raison d'etre for education might actually not be any of the reason discussed..

It's so you, the children's parents, can go about your business for the day and the kids can stay somewhere safe and where they can interact with their peers. If they happened to learn something, that's pure bonus.

I don't think there's just _one_ singular "raison d'etre" for school; many different forces have influenced its current-day shape: learning (or rather, the appearance of learning), socializing and friend-making, daycare for working adults (like you mention), etc.

Regarding the socializing and friend making function, if school didn’t exist would that be a problem? Like you have to send your kid to school to be with other kids only because the schools silo away the kids. If there weren’t any schools there would be kids in the neighborhoods. Do kids have to be at desks or in gym class to socialize with each other? I don’t think so?

Socializing (with peer) and allow parents to do that too (work is basically a form of socializing with peer, with benefits) will probably remain far far into the future, as long as humanity exist, whether AGI pans out or not.

> needing someone to watch one’s kids.

I glossed over it, it probably deserve half the article if I was writing it.

This is the sad reality. The education provided is based on an industrial revolution era theory of the worker as well. I’m not sure what a better alternative is.

Why would it be sad? They get to socialize with their peers, which is probably the more valuable part of the education process. Learning as I come to understand, are better curiosity driven, which don't necessarily need to happen at school. All the game hacking and number crunching on unit stats probably did more to where I am today than any school class.

It's sad because anyone spending a good chunk of the week with others roughly exactly their age is completely artificial. This doesn't happen outside of traditional schooling (until university level). It's no surprise that for some, it's quite toxic.

At least if there's learning involved, then one can say it was worth it. But if it boils down to nothing other than babysitting..?

Weird, I remember being told to stop talking all the time in school. Apparently those teachers were confused about the true purpose of school!

Maybe OP is on naughty list facing serious scrutiny during the postmortem review.