Cheating is All You Need
There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don’t realize at all how big it is.
March 23, 2023 Steve Yegge Cheating is all you need There is something legendary and historic happening in software engineering, right now as we speak, and yet most of you don't realize at all how big it is. Heya. Sorry for not writing for so long. I'll make up for it with 3000 pages here. I'm just hopping right now. That's kinda the only way to get me to blog anymore. I've rewritten this post so many times. It's about AI. But AI is changing so fast that the post is out of date within a few days. So screw it. I'm busting this version out in one sitting. (Spoiler alert: There's some Sourcegraph
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