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> I renamed a method, while someone else concurrently added another call to that

This is the most common use case for any compiler or linter


The single trivial example is not convincing


> Waymo saved my life... Unfortunately the Waymo only supported Spotify

I chuckled


Exactly. Any developer working on any project will encounter a decision that wasn’t in the spec, where they use their judgement and taste to fill in gaps. The idea that only code can be a complete spec assumes the code perfectly matches the original intent - which we know it rarely does in a project of meaningful size.


fwiw GSD is a pretty well-established decision-making framework. The creator didn’t invent it


It’s so interesting that we’re only now finding this out


Yeah the free lunch on tokens is almost over. Get them while they’re still cheap


It’s sorting by time


property taxes are indeed way too high


Imagine for a second if supply and demand were actually the only forces at play for these businesses run by billionaires… - forgetting oligopolies, blatant antitrust, lobbying, the revolving door between government and the c-suites, legal tax evasion, etc.

We don’t live in a fantasy world simulation on a frictionless plane where anyone can be a billionaire if they just pull up their bootstraps.


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