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by razoorka 2mo ago
Five US AI labs held every advantage and spent it on distraction, fear pricing and internal purges, while China closed most of the gap under chip sanctions.
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by razoorka 4mo ago
Spotify told investors that 99% of engineers use AI weekly. Their own engineering blog tells a different story about what that means.
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The Country of Geniuses That Doesn't Exist(techtrenches.dev)
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RAG Is Easy. Your Data Isn't(techtrenches.dev)
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The First Full-Scale Cyber War(techtrenches.dev)
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by razoorka 11mo ago
This isn’t about innovation — it’s about metrics. Sora 2 is the perfect example: a dopamine machine disguised as progress. It doesn’t solve real problems; it just creates endless engagement loops to inflate “usage” numbers for investors. Th
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by razoorka 11mo ago
Exactly! software is the only engineering discipline where failure has no liability and degradation has no visibility. Bridges collapse once. Software collapses silently, one abstraction at a time. The incentives are inverted: short-term gr
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by razoorka 11mo ago
Completely agree, software’s “materials” haven’t improved, only the scaffolding around them. We’ve industrialized the process without industrializing the discipline. The result is mass-produced code built on shaky abstractions, fast to asse
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by razoorka 11mo ago
That’s spot on - and it’s amplified by how the market rewards velocity signaling over craftsmanship. Teams are optimized for output volume, not outcome quality. Hiring pipelines favor those who can “ship fast,” while the systems they ship i
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by razoorka 11mo ago
Exactly! abstraction is the new bureaucracy. Each layer promises efficiency but adds hidden coordination cost. Ten years ago, a web app meant a framework and a database. Now it’s React → Electron → Chromium → Docker → Kubernetes → managed D
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by razoorka 11mo ago
Exactly. “Tests pass” has replaced “software works.” We measure coverage instead of correctness, and AI-generated tests just made it worse, they validate syntax, not behavior. The illusion of safety lets teams ship faster while silently com
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by razoorka 11mo ago
Good question. The difference is in scale and tolerance. Crashes used to be localized, one app, one machine. Now a missing field in a config file can take down 8.5 million Windows systems globally. Spotify leaking 79GB of RAM isn’t a “bug,”
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by razoorka 11mo ago
That’s fair, but the difference isn’t about whether we have linters or not. It’s about outcomes. In the ’90s, inefficiency meant slower code. Today it means 32GB RAM leaks in calculator apps, billion-dollar outages from a missing array fiel
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by razoorka 11mo ago
Yeah, the irony is that this is the only thing still propping up the U.S. economy. Real growth drivers are gone — manufacturing is flat, tech productivity has stalled, and GDP is now inflated by the promise of future AI miracles. Companies
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by razoorka 1y ago
I did a several-month experiment using Claude as the only engineer on a real SaaS side project (Node.js/React, prod-quality, full feature ownership). My observations: The quality of Claude’s output strongly correlates with how explicit
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by razoorka 1y ago
Pretty much. Strip away the AI narrative and there’s not much else driving growth right now - manufacturing’s flat, consumer spending’s slowing, and traditional tech margins are shrinking. This artificial boom in “AI infrastructure” is basi
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by razoorka 1y ago
This whole thing looks like a bubble in slow motion. A “non-profit” that somehow buys stakes, signs multi-billion supply deals, and moves markets based on promises of future models — all while technically owning nothing tangible. They’re le
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by razoorka 1y ago
Because growth always adds entropy. Every new product, integration, or business line introduces new edge cases, dependencies, and coordination paths. What starts as a clean architecture turns into a network of overlapping constraints - lega
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by razoorka 1y ago
It is. What you're describing is what used to be called financial velocity without value creation. We're watching a cycle where companies raise, reinvest, and report "growth" that's mostly internal money circulation
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by razoorka 1y ago
The gap between "AI is a 90% solution" and "100% required for production" is enormous. In my bubble, AI-generated code is maybe 70% useful, often less. The remaining 30% isn't minor polish—it's: Understanding s
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by razoorka 1y ago
I find it strange when programmers push the narrative that "we won't need to code anymore, just write in English." If that's true, what's your value? You don't understand client needs better than a product mana
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by razoorka 1y ago
Exactly. It's an industry shift, and one person can't reverse it alone. But I disagree with "better something than nothing" when it comes to quality. That's how we normalized catastrophes in the first place. The lem
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by razoorka 1y ago
Thank you , I appreciate your advice
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by razoorka 1y ago
Look at Intel—an absolute monopoly for decades, everyone said they'd never fall. But they did. The government bailed them out with billions because they're "too important to fail." Apple is even bigger. When they start t
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by razoorka 1y ago
This is the core philosophical divide in modern software development. The "vibe coding MVP" crowd treats code as disposable—ship fast, validate the idea, and discard it if it doesn't work. The problem: most MVPs never get thr
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by razoorka 1y ago
Exactly. That's why I wrote this—to confirm we're not crazy for noticing the pattern.
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by razoorka 1y ago
I wouldn't work at a place that doesn't value my perspective either. The problem is that most engineers realize this 6-12 months in, after they're already invested, and leaving means starting over. This is why "keep your
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by razoorka 1y ago
It began way more earlier then llm era, but yes , with llm it became even worse
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by razoorka 1y ago
I would prefer to pay 20% more for product which works perfectly, than for product which almost works. But no one asked me.
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by razoorka 1y ago
Oh, I see your point, I didn’t think from this angle

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