Gaslight-driven development(tonsky.me) |
Gaslight-driven development(tonsky.me) |
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
You made me chuckle. Well played. Great stuff :)
May I, simply, also suggest:
HTTP 407 Hallucination
Meaning: The server understands the request but believes it to be incongruous with reality.-
If we have 418, why not 513?
Please do not use it for anything other than its specified purpose, even if it is a joke.
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— https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998091
[0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/06/27/mcdiarmid-stick...
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[1]: https://game-guide.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Might-and-M...
The idea is kinda cute, but the implementation is aggressive.
Also, what if it played slow and brooding music when fewer people were reading and epic action adventure music when many people were reading it?
How about if the page mined bitcoin and the first person to enter a page made a percentage higher percentage of the next person’s bitcoin and less of the next one, like a multi-level marketing mining strategy?
"Any person who has used a computer in the past ten years knows that doing meaningless tasks ..."
I guess this is demonstrating another variant of that. Admittedly, not one I'd seen before so +1 for novelty even if -20 for distraction.
Good. Think of all the dev hours that must’ve been wasted by humans who were confused by this too.
If a function can both insert and update, it should be called "put". Using "update" is misleading.
upsert is for you insert/update.
semantically PUT is exactly upsert.
upsert is update + create if not exists, which is exactly PUT
any update without overwrite is "append" or "extend" (or something else)
> Millions of people create accounts, confirm emails, ... not because they particularly want to or even need to.
These were design choices made by humans, not computers.
I think the way people will write code will not be around following solid principles or making sure your cyclometric complexity is high or low, nor it would be about is your code readable or not.
I think future coding principles would be around whether your agentic ide can index it well to become context aware, does it fix into the context window or not. It will be around the model you use and thr code it can generate. We will index on maintainability of the code, as code will become disposable as rate of change will increase dramatically. It will be around whether your vibed prompts matches the code thats already generated to reach some accuracy or generate enough serendipity.
In general I think it’s great whenever some weight / synapse strength bits can be reallocated from idiosyncratic API naming / behavior towards real semantics.
Naming things doesn’t get easier just because you bring an LLM to do it based on an incoherent stochastic process.
Have you asked why those environments have not been renamed to align? As a former CTO I’d see it immediately as a signal of poor communication, poor standards adoption, or both. It’s this low hanging stuff that you can fix relatively easily where you’re actually using that work to make the culture better and make people care more.
Don’t outsource things you should care about a lot. Naming things is something you shouldn’t be hand waving away to a model.
The machines don’t give a shit, it’s the lawyers and bureaucrats you’re serving :)
Better or worse?
The bureaucratic and legal apparatus you invoke are themselves caught up in this regime. Their procedures, paperwork, and legitimacy rely on referents—the "models" and "simulacra" of governance, law, and knowledge—that no longer point back to any fundamental, stable reality. What you serve, in effect, is the system of signification itself: simulation as reality, or—per Baudrillard—hyperreality, where "all distinctions between the real and the fictional, between a copy and the original, disappear".
"The spectacle is not a collection of images but a social relation among people, mediated by images." (Debord) Our social relations, governance, and even dissent become performances staged for the world's endless mediated feedback loop.
In this age, according to Heidegger, "everything becomes a 'picture', a 'set-up' for calculation, representation, and control." The machine is not just a device or a bureaucratic protocol—it is the mode of disclosure through which the world appears, and your sense of selfhood and agency are increasingly products (and objects) within this technological enframing.
Yada, yada, yada; the Matrix is real.
ie, you don't know the half of it, compadre.
Like… it’s just a really, really, really good autocomplete and sometimes I find thinking of it that way cleans up my whole mental model for its use.
Taking requirements and making working code is something some models are adequate at. It’s all the stuff around that, which I think holds the value, such as deciding things like when the requirements are wrong.
we have code review by LLM. There is no point or a way to argue. Just submit to the wishes of the overlord, resistance is futile.
He didn't like that it vibrated the steering wheel when he changed lanes without using the blinker.
It appears that there’s a very long tail of exceptional circumstances that must be handled with autonomous driving.
That isn't to argue about using of the blinker, it is about the way the assist is implemented in this case - it doesn't help directly with the blinker, instead it punishes you and thus stress-injects-and-conditions you for the instinct to use blinker next time. Net positive probably for the driver and society thus demonstrating again that forcing individual submission is an effective way to social harmony.
And blinker is just very mild use case. LLMs can already today in some cases and will be more and more tomorrow able to recognize when your behavior isn't legal and/or isn't very moral (like it would hear that you say and see what you text on the phone and would for example recognize a drug buying - pardon such a primitive simplicity, it is just a caricaturish exampl for illustration purposes only - and we've already established a tendency of LLMs to rat you out to authorities) and thus LLM can act to warn you about or even prevent your actions and/or report you to authorities, probably even before you actually commit anything.
(New startup pitch: Our agentic AI scans your access and error logs, and automatically vibe codes new API endpoints for failed API calls and pushes them to production within seconds, all without expensive developers or human intervention! Please form an orderly queue with your termsheets and Angel Investment cheques.)
It might actually work if the subscription is expensive enough.
put will blow away existing keys if they dont exist in the new payload. which is why it cant be upsert.
that said, usually PUT is meaningful for a URL (or URI), and in these circumstances it's like upsert, and it cannot blow away other keys, as it operates on one key, given by the URL
of course if we assume a batch endpoint, sure, it then can do non-upsert-like things
Are you joking around with me or is my point just not as obvious as I believed it to be?
Edit: Not sure if that last bit sounds confrontational, please know that it's a genuine question.
Thank you for taking the time to respond and ask. My original 418 message was very much intended as a light hearted joke, in the spirit of "if we wanted to return cheeky responses to previously nonsense APIs that AI invented" I actually like this idea of subverting AI in inventive ways.
Now to the point where we've got here, yes I 100% agree in real-world, production applications, you should return response codes which accurately represent the actual response. But there also a place for fun, even in production, and 418 represents that for me.
Thanks for caring about quality :-)
If you need to depart a lane in a hurry to avoid hitting a person or something, you aren't going to get any benefit from signalling
The people behind you won't even have time to process your signal before you veer, anyways
For all you know I need to exit my lane in a hurry to avoid a collision. The car doesn't have the same context that the driver has. It only cares about staying between two painted lines, it might not have any idea about a truck coming straight at me going the other direction
> The societal cost of collisions is worth more than your freedoms
If a semi is in my lane barrelling toward me I'm not obligated to just accept death so I don't endanger anyone else by accident by swerving to avoid it
The fact is that human drivers have a lot more information and awareness than a handful of sensors installed by idiot engineers that think the only bad thing that ever happens when driving is that someone changes lanes without signalling
