Notices by Jaana Dogan :unverified: (rakyll@m.rakyll.org)

Funny that USA in Irish is SAM.

Back in Uppsala.

Staying on a boat.

Stunning day to sail.

The best environments in software engineering are the ones you can continuously ask why something works the way it does until you get to the bare instructions. All the innovation comes from that exploration and knowledge.

FOMO in tech is a disease and is working against anyone who wants to tackle hard & important problems. I don't know any other sophisticated/technical industry where trends matter this much, and have this level of impact. We routinely force people to drop what they do and pivot to catch a bus they already missed.

I don't know if AI is going to replace programmers or not but there will be a lot of jobs just to delete AI generated code.

It was mandatory to recover my mastadon login because no other social media seems to be relevant at #fosdem.

I’ve been thinking lately how overwhelmingly it is to get anything done at any established companies. The early Internet companies were small, had a short cycle of growth and failure, and there was continuous recycling. Since the 2010s, the industry has been overly saturated. New verticals are coming up and niche products come and go, but key corners are in the hands of a few existing systems and their maintainers.

If you are looking forward to work on a major product, you have no options other than inheriting an unmanageable giant mess. If lucky, you can be positioned on big rewrites or slightly more green field new projects, but you are rarely that lucky. On average, whatever you touch has unmanageable debt and unbounded footprint.