Even assuming there's nothing in it (which I am doing), just the fact that the US are making statements like this just blows my mind.

I've read a lot about this approach - don't fix bugs, rewrite it entirely - and I'm in two minds as we're entering a new era.

You can't compare to a traditional rewrite though.

It was directed at @jasongorman.bsky.social but caffeine is still en route.

You've only worked with poor junior developers. Some are capable and driven, or great problem solvers, they just don't have the experience to make consistently good choices - hence the title.

It's like an insanity wolf meme...but better?

- Deployed on Railway
- Almost entirely written by Cursor, albeit with a lot of guidance when it did silly things
- AWS Transcribe for audio transcriptions
- AWS S3 for audio storage
- Sentry for exception reporting
- Twilio for WhatsApp comms

Also skeptical about Brad Pitt too. Either of them could be Lucan at large!

They may be right. I would like to see more engineers looking at the context of a situation more though, rather than a "one size fits all" mentality that I often see in people that have been taught software engineering. Is that experience, or personality? Not sure.

Definitely no right and wrong.

...and yes, I too get paid for this and it's unlikely it'll ever get any better - particularly with the adoption of AI coding tools that (for now anyway) create truly awful code.

Academic learning is not industry training though. There may be overlap, but they aren't the same thing and I don't think they should be.

Why should it though? There is limited space in every curriculum, and a module on "production ready code" or "software engineering teams" is only going to be prioritised against many other important topics.

If you want software engineering, take it.

I love the plane story, it's such a great example of thinking differently. I imagine very few people didn't have the same thought process when going through that story for the first time.

Computer science isn't there to teach "industry practice" though. There's a clue in the name, it's a wide field with so much to cover.

My favourite learnings that were useful and/or fun were compiler design (flex and co - useful), and a deeper understanding of 3d graphics maths (fun).

This has been popular in the UAE for years. I first used it for something like ordering bread, and felt a bit weird. Then quickly realised it's amazing.