@bloor audiophile usb cables hurt my brain too.

I would like one of these power cables for my toaster, though, ngl

@cR0w not sure that is an accurate picture of the tech industry. Most of my jobs did not have that dress code.

@futurebird Wait until you teach them the "let it crash" philosophy of software engineering.

@raganwald
The best, most succinct, explanation of the difference here came from @pluralistic:
Coding makes things run well, software engineering makes things fail well.
All meaningful software fails over time as it interacts with the real world and the real world changes., so handling failure cases well is important.
Handling these cases involves expanding one's context window to take into account a lot of different factors.
For LLMs, a linear increase in the context window results in a quadratic increase in processing. And the unit economics of LLMs sucks already without squaring the costs.
Which is why AI, in its current incarnation, is fundamentally not capable of creating good software.

(I've heavily paraphrased, so apologies if he reads this).

@futurebird @EricLawton @david_chisnall