The Programmer's Paradox

Software is a static list of instructions, which we are constantly changing.

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Thursday, November 13, 2025

Unknown unknowns

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If I decided to build a house all on my own, I am pretty sure I would face lots of unexpected problems. I am comfortable building something ...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

Intent

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Recently, I was reading some AI-generated code. At the high level, it looked like what I would expect for the work that it was trying to do,...
Friday, October 31, 2025

The Structure of Data

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A single point of data -- one ‘variable’ -- isn’t really valuable. If you have the same variable vibrating over time, then it might give you...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Fishbowl

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I’ve often felt that software development projects were representative fishbowls for the rest of reality. They have the same toxic mix that ...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

Patience

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The biggest difference between now and when I started programming 35 years ago is patience. Many of the people who commission software devel...
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