There's a reason Where 2 -> Google Maps happened in Sydney. The sheer number of one-way roads combined with the imposition of the harbour and the messy tunnel system make internalising Sydney navigation a life-long endeavour

Cloudflare are neck deep in v8 as their js runtime of choice. I doubt they'll be looking for another any time soon

The cloud is just someone else’s on-prem

They're based in Collingwood, any Australian would tell you that an n year Haskel rewrite is the most normal thing about them

Speaking as someone from there (Collingwood), we're proudly weird.

Hello from Portland, Oregon!

Not op, but in my case a lifetime of colourblindness has desensitised me to colour as an indicator.

I have my editor configured with zero highlighting for keywords and syntactic elements. Admittedly, I have compilation/lint/syntax/type check errors set to invert the erroneous block, black background white text.

Syntax and keyword highlighting is just noise given I’ve been trained by decades of colourblind unfriendly interfaces

Syntax highlighting doesn't necessarily mean color, though. Using boldface to highlight keywords is another option that is traditional in some circles (e.g. Delphi has been doing that for 30 years now).

that's a very good reason to not use syntax highlighting. If that is what the other guys are dealing with, I withdraw my critique but I don't get the impression that is the case

> slop that works

Until that slop that works leads to therac-26 or PostOfficeScandal2 electric boogaloo. Neither of those applications required software superior to their competitors, just working software

The average quality of software can only trend down so far before real world problems start manifesting, even outside of businesses with a hard requirement on "software superiority"

Anyone can say that something works. Lots of things look like they work even though they harbor severe and elusive bugs.

It's so bizarre to me seeing these comments as a professional software engineer. Like, you do realize that at least 80% of the code written in large companies like Microsoft, Amazon, etc was slop long before AI was ever invented right?

The stuff you get to see in open source, papers, academia- that's a very small curated 1% of the actual glue code written by an overworked engineer at 1am that holds literally everything together.

Why is it bizarre? I’m a tester with 38 years in the business. I’ve seen pretty much every kind of project and technology.

I was testing at Microsoft on the week that Windows 2000 shipped, showing them that Photoshop can completely freeze Windows (which is bad, and something they needed to know about).

The creed of a tester begins with faith in existence of trouble. This does not mean we believe anything is perfectible— it means we think it is necessary to be vigilant.

AI commits errors in a way and to a degree that should alarm any reasonable engineer. But more to the point: it tends to alienate engineers from their work so that they are less able to behave responsibly. I think testing is more important than ever, because AI is a Gatling gun of risk.

? https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/

? https://ai.cloudflare.com/

Ah TIL. These are tiny models though but maybe it’s a good sign.

But most of its profit from AWS

The three layers of middlemanagement between engineers and whichever director owns this particular incarnation of RDS

A single cloudflare durable object (sqlite db + serverless compute + cron triggers) would be enough to run this project. DOs have been added to CFs free tier recently - you could probably run a couple hundred (maybe thousands) instances of Stevens without paying a cent, aside from Claude costs ofc