It is very heavily filled with LLM-isms. The writing is bland AI output.

how do you know?

in the first item, LLMs don't use incomplete sentence fragments?

> It’s seductive to fall in love with a technology and go looking for places to apply it. I’ve done it. Everyone has. But the engineers who create the most value work backwards: they become obsessed with understanding user problems deeply, and let solutions emerge from that understanding.

I suppose it can be prompted to take on one's writing style. AI-assisted, ok sure, but hmm so any existence of an em-dash automatically exposes text as AI-slop? (ironically I don't think there are any dashes in the article)

EDIT: ok the thread below, does expose tells. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490075 - yep there's definitely some AI tells. I still think it's well written/structured though.

> It's not X... it's Y.

That one I can't unsee.

And have a look at the bio: https://addyosmani.com/bio/

> His story isn’t just about writing code, but about inspiring a community to strive for a better web. And perhaps the most exciting chapter is still being written, as he helps shape how AI and the web will intersect in the coming decade. Few individuals have done as much to push the web forward while uplifting its developers, and that legacy will be felt for a long time to come.

So for your opinion to carry any weight, please enlighten us as to the games you have shipped that qualify you to comment on their take on programming practices.

This is a hilarious take.

Car company makes innovative new car engine for their vehicle. A user wants to get a replacement key made for the vehicle, but company doesn't have the process in place to make replacement keys:

Are you fascinated by this hypothetical companies level of discipline? Or would you consider it negligent and inept?

If the car in question were the probably most hot software in town and the user wants to change the photos on their profiles, I'd find it very interesting if they kept the discipline to focus the whole team away from such a low-priority change and into the priority of keeping it the most hot software in town.

Let's keep in mind that OpenAI is a small company (in people terms), and they are fighting toe to toe with Google.

Heck, if they mess up a quarter they are probably dead.

Besides the fact you're completely shifting the goal post here on analogies, changing email address is a pretty normal feature of any service pretending to be serious. Also, you seem to have the belief it is impossible for such a large company with such investment to work on multiple things simultaneously.

The fact that they can, but choose not to is exactly the fact I’m astonished with.

Sounds like a feature, not a bug

the garden without the wall is trampled

Right, because the idea of Linux has always been about sticking to big corporate distros whenever possible

Well, the idea of Linux was "a better minix" and "I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones".

The idea behind unix was a single user operating system. Hence the name.

Not necessarily a corporate distro, but there is somewhat more sustainability in a project based on Debian or Arch than an individual with a bunch of organically handmade scripts.

Why were you expecting this article to specifically mention ray marching? It looks like a comprehensive beginner article on what shaders are, not an exhaustive list of what you can do with them.

If you are using fragment shaders to draw squares you're doing something wrong.

Shaders would be more for something like _shading_ the square.

Ray casting shaders are a thing. A very performant thing too.

Sounds like the perfect filter then. I'd rather have people showing up to my party that are interested in having a good time moreso than how "cool" they appear.

That makes two of us. I've never heard of (or thank god, been to) a party where a host is forcing people to move around, especially in an unnatural way. Nothing feels like a forced party more than, well, forcing.

> I've never heard of (or thank god, been to) a party where a host is forcing people to move around, especially in an unnatural way.

You've never been to a party where you had dispersed throughout the location, and then the host gathered you to eat a meal or a cake (possibly singing a song prior to distributing the cake)?

> You've never been to a party where you had dispersed throughout the location, and then the host gathered you to eat a meal or a cake (possibly singing a song prior to distributing the cake)?

This isn't "an unnatural way". I don't know what the point of mischaracterising the previous comments is.