Guy Hoffman
@guyhoffman.bsky.social
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I Lived With a Humanoid Robot for 48 Hours | 1X Technologies
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November 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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🧵3/5
"The dark areas are receding fast."
Metaphor with juvenile simplicity; vague and ungrounded.
"We’ll all get better stuff."
Casual phrasing—"better stuff" is vague and childlike in tone.
"The dark areas are receding fast."
Metaphor with juvenile simplicity; vague and ungrounded.
"We’ll all get better stuff."
Casual phrasing—"better stuff" is vague and childlike in tone.
August 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🧵3/5
"The dark areas are receding fast."
Metaphor with juvenile simplicity; vague and ungrounded.
"We’ll all get better stuff."
Casual phrasing—"better stuff" is vague and childlike in tone.
"The dark areas are receding fast."
Metaphor with juvenile simplicity; vague and ungrounded.
"We’ll all get better stuff."
Casual phrasing—"better stuff" is vague and childlike in tone.
🧵2/5
"A lot more people will be able to create software, and art."
Extremely basic structure, generalization with no depth.
"The future can be vastly better than the present."
A feel-good, vague proclamation—could be in a motivational poster.
"A lot more people will be able to create software, and art."
Extremely basic structure, generalization with no depth.
"The future can be vastly better than the present."
A feel-good, vague proclamation—could be in a motivational poster.
August 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🧵2/5
"A lot more people will be able to create software, and art."
Extremely basic structure, generalization with no depth.
"The future can be vastly better than the present."
A feel-good, vague proclamation—could be in a motivational poster.
"A lot more people will be able to create software, and art."
Extremely basic structure, generalization with no depth.
"The future can be vastly better than the present."
A feel-good, vague proclamation—could be in a motivational poster.
I have also been reading more novels per month than ever in my life. I feel like it's a necessary antidote to the social media feed and AI-generated content.
July 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I have also been reading more novels per month than ever in my life. I feel like it's a necessary antidote to the social media feed and AI-generated content.
Great thread. I have read and re-read and re-read Weizenbaum's "Computer Power and Human Reason" in recent years, and it should be required reading for all college students.
March 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Great thread. I have read and re-read and re-read Weizenbaum's "Computer Power and Human Reason" in recent years, and it should be required reading for all college students.
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There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong."
This is one of the dangers when we let technologists "fix" government.
There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong."
This is one of the dangers when we let technologists "fix" government.
February 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong."
This is one of the dangers when we let technologists "fix" government.
There’s a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong."
This is one of the dangers when we let technologists "fix" government.
As Joel Spolsky wrote then, about completely rewriting old code:
"the first thing [programmers] want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We’re not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds.
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"the first thing [programmers] want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We’re not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds.
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February 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
As Joel Spolsky wrote then, about completely rewriting old code:
"the first thing [programmers] want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We’re not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds.
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"the first thing [programmers] want to do when they get to a site is to bulldoze the place flat and build something grand. We’re not excited by incremental renovation: tinkering, improving, planting flower beds.
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If you know this kind of immature software dev mindset, it makes it not surprising that he has 20-something "genius" coders doing his bidding.
I learned about this mistake almost 25 years ago, when I was a 20-something "genius" developer:
www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...
I learned about this mistake almost 25 years ago, when I was a 20-something "genius" developer:
www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...
Things You Should Never Do, Part I
Netscape 6.0 is finally going into its first public beta. There never was a version 5.0. The last major release, version 4.0, was released almost three years ago. Three years is an awfully long tim…
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February 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
If you know this kind of immature software dev mindset, it makes it not surprising that he has 20-something "genius" coders doing his bidding.
I learned about this mistake almost 25 years ago, when I was a 20-something "genius" developer:
www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...
I learned about this mistake almost 25 years ago, when I was a 20-something "genius" developer:
www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...