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#StackOverflow’s 2025 #Developer #Survey reveals a paradox in enterprise #AIadoption: while AI #usage is increasing, #trust in these tools is declining. Developers cite “AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” as their top frustration, highlighting the potential for #AIgeneratedcode to create #technicaldebt. venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overf #tech #media #news

Just a reminder to folks that I'm going to be talking with @freebliss tomorrow, July 31st at 1300 Eastern UTC-4.

This certainly isn't because I'm doing my show notes atm and doing research, but Simon's stuff is fantastic and I can't wait to show it off. Not just Simon's #developer #projects, but also Simon's #art.

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I use computers every day and, personally, I wish there were wayyyy fewer of them.

The issue with modern engineering, technology, and infrastructure is that we have taken all of our hardware problems and turned them into software problems. They are, as a rule, easier to deploy, but much harder to maintain and repair.

In a reasonable system it should not be possible, to hack a gas pump, or for there to be a need to update your refrigerator's firmware, or for an important component to be decommissioned overnight because a tiny startup on the other end of the world went belly up.

The value of physical hardware is that it can be directly inspected and manipulated in a way that software can't. It's harder for hardware to lie or cheat or hide anything whereas secrecy is a norm in software. The material of software is capable of misleading and confusing it's operators in a way physical objects struggle to do without a gimmick of some sort.

Hardware can be coerced to continue running indefinitely whereas old software needs the equivalent of a specially crafted, hermetically sealed life support system to outlive its usefulness for even a few years.

I'm reminded of when so much of the tools and infrastructure in our lives was stupid, direct, gravity fed, lever operated, simple machines that did one thing and did it well.

Now stuff breaks because a wildly abstracted system of captured photons that we tricked into doing math decided that just one out of those gajillions of uncountable particles was in the wrong place.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy software. It's never been easier to just make a tool to solve hyper specific problems. I guess the issue is that software-centric solutions have just bled into so many applications to the point that it is wildly inappropriate and just plain annoying.