Every time someone builds one of these things and skips over "overcomplicated theory", aphyr destroys them. At this point, I wonder if we could train an AI to look over a project's documentation, and predict whether it's likely to lose commmitted writes just based on the marketing / technical claims. We probably can.

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awesome_dude 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

/me strokes my long grey beard and nods

People always think "theory is overrated" or "hacking is better than having a school education"

And then proceed to shoot themselves in the foot with "workarounds" that break well known, well documented, well traversed problem spaces

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whimsicalism an hour ago | parent [-]

certainly a narrative that is popular among the grey beard crowd, yes. in pretty much every field i've worked on, the opposite problem has been much much more common.

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_zoltan_ an hour ago | parent [-]

what's the opposite problem statement?

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whimsicalism 35 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

People overly beholden to tried and true 'known' way of addressing a problem space and not considering/belittling alternatives. Many of the things that have been most aggressively 'bitter lesson'ed in the last decade fall into this category.

	▲	awesome_dude 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Like this bug report? The things that have been "disrupted" haven't delivered - Blockchains are still a scam, Food delivery services are worse than before (Restaurants are worse off, the people making the deliveries are worse off), Taxis still needed to go back and vet drivers to ensure that they weren't fiends.

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MrDarcy an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The ivory tower standing in the way of delivering value I think.

	▲	colechristensen 36 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		To be more specific, goals of perfection where perfection does not at all matter.

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dboreham an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I've asked LLMs to do similar tasks and the results were very useful.