Notices by Sam Stephens (chopsstephens@mastodon.nzoss.nz)

@aral "They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated" this is the ticking time bomb. I've been saying for a long time that writing code is easy; it's owning code that's hard. Designing an application to change and grow as future requirements arrive takes deliberate design thought. LLMs are not capable of that.

RE: https://post.lurk.org/@grahamdunning/116318743488284424

If you have an interest in music as experimentation and exploration, this is worth your time. Graham has created a framework, a wonderful environment that puts his work in rich rich constraints that he finds so much to discover within.

A reminder that our government don't give a shit about the human rights of vulnerable people https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/25/human-rights-protections-for-transgender-kiwis-not-a-priority-govt/

@SuperDicq @elly @flesh my rule of thumb is I won't own any car that needs an internet connection for software updates. The surveillance is one thing, but I also don't trust them to keep the software running for the lifetime of a car. Fisker is a case in point.

@DaveMWilburn @hrbrmstr I had this happen with Netflix on a motel TV not so long ago, and I changed one of the profile names to "don't leave your Netflix logged in at a motel" before logging them out. Felt like I'd done my cyber security education civic duty.

@thomasfuchs my first job in the late 90s was at an Oracle shop (running in NT 4, because New Zealand loves Microsoft), and we used something I think was called Oracle Forms to create a "codeless" application for internal use. My memory was that it was great until we encountered edge cases it didn't handle, which then took a bunch of nasty hackish code to work around.