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   That Would Be Telling (thatwouldbetelling@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 02:33:52 JST That Would Be Telling

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   @p @charlie_root @JoshuaSlocum @mangeurdenuage @mischievoustomato "> US-EAST-CHAOS-MONKEY

   'We meant to take down half the fuckin' internets.'"

   The purpose of a system is what it does! :cirnoHeh:

   Really, I think we're two old souls talking past each other, although I might be older, Fred Brooks' invaluable The Mythical Man Month was published late enough in 1975 it wasn't in the first set of software engineering books I read in high school at my local low tier college (and check the second edition for his later reconsideration of maxims like "plan to throw one away because you will" (your first attempt at writing a system)).

   AKA I don't think either of us is really wrong, we're just emphasizing different things (and I can't say I remember all of what I read in the thread). Like for Grok I expect less censorship, albeit neither it nor "Open"AI managed to be as bad as Google: