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Posted by ssaboum 12 hours ago

Good software knows when to stop(ogirardot.writizzy.com)
326 points | 179 commentspage 4
lasgawe 8 hours ago|
> Good software knows the purpose it serves, it does not try to do everything, it knows when to stop and what to improve.

agree with this point. new developers should care about this.

lrakster 9 hours ago||
Just like all organizations are naturally self-expanding and self-perpetuating. Same with all organizations building software. The natural pressure is to expand. It is hard to resist it.
theorchid 11 hours ago||
Oracle Database has now been renamed Oracle AI Database. But I think that in time, they will rename it back to Oracle Database. The hype will pass, but the AI will remain, and the name will no longer need to include the AI prefix. AI will just become the norm.
easton 10 hours ago||
Not only that, but due to their pattern of putting letters after the version number the current version is Oracle AI Database "26ai".

I skimmed the video and the presenters said "Oracle AI Database 26ai" multiple times without even a glint of self awareness on their face. They must've picked the only people on the team that could say that without laughing.

kube-system 8 hours ago|||
That never happened to JavaScript. It still has Java in the name long after the Java hype ended. We never went back to calling it LiveScript.
layer8 7 hours ago||
Well, there was an attempt of sorts with EcmaScript.
0x457 7 hours ago||
Well no, ECMA Script exists, but it's not a language it's a standard that JavaScript runtimes implement. JavaScript today means ECMA Script version + runtime flavor.
ssaboum 11 hours ago||
not exactly what we're asking of database, don't you think ?
theorchid 7 hours ago|||
We want to maintain the status quo in technology. We want databases to remain as they were five years ago. But for some reason, Oracle implemented AI into its database. Perhaps they surveyed their customers, and most of them supported this initiative. Perhaps they surveyed the wrong audience, and real database users do not want to see AI in them. Or maybe they made this decision to get more investment or because of the hype around AI.

But the decision has been made. And if AI remains in databases after the AI hype, the next generation of developers will no longer know databases without AI. That's why I said it will become the norm. But that's just my guess. Unfortunately, I can't see the future. I don't know what it will actually be like in a few years.

jayd16 9 hours ago||||
Ironically, yeah kinda. In so far as fuzzy text search goes, vectorization works great.

The generative part of the AI hype is getting in the way.

righthand 10 hours ago|||
Needs for actual survival and functionality do not out weigh needs for product manager promotions anymore.
pocksuppet 10 hours ago||
The destructive forces (fire clearing deadwood) of the economy have been artificially suppressed for a long time. Most companies are zombie companies now. The US is an entire zombie economic zone.
thewebguyd 9 hours ago|||
That's what happens when you have nearly a decade of ZIRP & QE.

Money printer go brrrr.

cindyllm 10 hours ago|||
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rutuhffhbb 9 hours ago||
> ready to upgrade your favorite Linux distribution and packages to their latest versions

It is "their" distribution, to do with as they wish. If this would happen to your workstation, you are a fool, for not following release notes.

I already jumped distros for several reasons, marketing BS was one of them. I do not need latest scam or flag of the month!

groby_b 3 hours ago||
"Good software knows when to stop, look at ls!"

ls: usage: ls [-@ABCFGHILOPRSTUWXabcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxy1%,] [--color=when] [-D format] [file ...]

I don't think it knew when to stop.

dpcx 9 hours ago||
I notice at this time there are no comments about systemd. I figured there would be at least one comment about it and "it does not try to do everything".
benttoothpaste 11 hours ago||
als: both fitting and terrifying name for that new utility...
PTOB 9 hours ago|
... slowly losing all functionality until, suddenly, death.
xg15 10 hours ago|
Good software doesn't get you VC funding.
grishka 10 hours ago|
As if VC funding is a good thing.

Good software is made by individual people, nonprofits, or privately-owned entities.

grougnax 8 hours ago|||
Sometimes you need to pay the people who made the software. You can't steal during all your life. At some point you have to pay the others for the work they did.
bigstrat2003 7 hours ago||
Nobody is saying don't pay your developers. Just that VC funding creates perverse incentives within your business where you are pressured to do what is best for your investors, rather than your customers. But there are other business models where one can earn money and still pay the people working on the product.
smm11 9 hours ago||||
And AI.
grishka 8 hours ago||
No. The optimum amount of AI in this world is zero.
jasonlotito 10 hours ago|||
VC funding gets you paid, which is a good thing.

Not getting paid is less good.

coffeefirst 9 hours ago|||
But more and more, as a user, VC funding is a pretty good sign that either the product is shit or later will become shit.

Which is great because it means whenever I can I should go with the underdogs and SMBs.

grishka 10 hours ago||||
VC funding gets you enslaved. There's no such thing as free money.
latexr 9 hours ago|||
> VC funding gets you paid

So does robbing a bank. But it’s far from the only option. Plenty of indie developers thrive without any VC funding, and I thank every one of them for it. VC funding is essentially a guarantee that if the software isn’t shit now, it’ll be in the future, and that the creators care more about the money than doing something good. Case in point, the deterioration of 1Password.

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