Do you know if traditional blackboards have still been used in 2025?

I must ask: as opposed to whiteboards or as opposed to screens for everyone?

Most certainly the latter is not implemented due to a lack of budget. Desks are still two-person as well.

Schools have always worked on a shoestring budget around here.

As opposed to large screens replacing white/green/blackboards.

I'm curious what you meant by the web app use case and why you find SQL bad?

He probably is still drinking the NoSQL koolaid of 2015 :)

Just as with any kind of programming I want to be able to detect as much amount of issues as early as possible. That includes issues like invalid queries (both on syntax and types level) but also stuff like will specific transaction isolation level be just enough (from correctness and performance point) for my specific use case, or will the migration query lock the whole db or take multiple days to execute because I didn't know some niche quirk. To me it is obvious that you will not beable to do that with SQL, one because it is old so it accumulated all the weird quirks, that were done in the name of backward compatibility, two is that by it's nature of being script language you just could not do more complicated cross query static analysis. See also https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/against-sql which nicely describes other issues. See languages like PRQL for better syntax, or https://www.languagesforsyste.ms/MixT/ for static analysis possibilities

I am mostly aligned with the article on what I want from next generation of web development. But I don't think using specific library in a specific language or specific query language is a viable long term solution. Hance the mention of Substrait. The solution that I think is needed, is something like LLVM but for databases.

As for the NoSQL, I think it was the worse thing that happened to databases in the last 20 years, probably more

Good to stop repeating actions making you unhappy, but how about going without assistants alltogether?

From the examples given I haven't seen any meaningful life improvement with them.

"Remind me [at datetime/in x hours] about Y." is very useful for handsfree reminders. I have an alarm clock that reacts to "Hey Google" so I just say "alarm at xyz" to set alarms. With the phone, "Navigate home" saves a few seconds compared to opening Google Maps and hitting the "Home" shortcut.

I'm just waiting for Google to send the email with the title like "An update about Assistant's future" to make the clock e-waste. On the phone I tried Gemini but that's slower because it needs a brain for simple text parsing..

Fair point about the reminders!

May your wait be long.

I saw cost savings trickle down to customers only in an economy textbook.

Why is it surprising?

We're rather used to the idea of progress in most areas of human endeavor. It's fairly absurd to believe rolling back the last 200 years of progress would lead to measurably better outcomes is absurd in fields like medicine, industry, science, history, technology, cuisine, transportation, ...

That it seems to be that case in education seems to me to qualify for the label of surprising.

You can make coffee by brewing it or by using Nespresso.

I couldn't understand either until I remembered appearances matter more than substance.

So if your goal is to deliver as much features as possible - regardless of the quality or roi - gatekeepers are an obstacle to remove.

Having functions literally color coded based on type would be nice improvement.

"Not snow, not swans, but the tent of Hasan Aga" - cca 1640.

MeThree.

But I think it's not the case incentives are wrong but the reality of business - what do you do when things are feature complete in all the ways that matter?

I dunno, what does Jordan's Furniture do about the fact that the recliner I'm sitting on is feature complete and has been since 2005 and seems to be sturdy enough to last me for the next twenty years? Try to sell me something better, try to sell me different things, try to sell things to other people, and succeed or fail at those goals.

I haven't used a Mac in a bit but I remember liking BBEdit back in the 00s, and it still seems to exist without having a subscription model.