Steve Yegge is a renowned software developer. He’s done this for thirty-odd years. Senior engineer at Amazon then Google, blogger on the art of programming. Yegge was highly regarded. Then he got h…
  • mirrorwitch@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I went from “oh hey Steve Yegge I vaguely remember that name, what’s he up to these days?” to “Oh.” in the space of half a sentence

    • calliope@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      Same, and I’ve obviously heard the name from his blog.

      Over time, it always gets easier to tell who writes blogs and who writes software.

    • mirrorwitch@awful.systemsEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Someone at the It Could Happen Here podcast was making a prediction that someone at some point will make a big push for an “AI crypto”, which (under some pretext or another) you can only mine with AI datacenters. Because there’s like a real big amount of resources being burned on AI datacenters, and as the chatbots continue to fail to return anything at all on the massive investment, they’ll have to come up with a way to justify the datacentres’ existence at all. Maybe Yegge’s just ahead of the curve 🤷‍♀️