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Posted by milanm081 5 days ago

Laws of Software Engineering(lawsofsoftwareengineering.com)
1158 points | 523 commentspage 12
samuelknight 5 days ago|
I like the website. Simple and snappy.
Lapsa 5 days ago||
reminder - there's tech out there capable of reading your mind remotely
rapatel0 5 days ago||
The list is great but the explanation are clearly AI slop.

"Before SpaceX, launching rockets was costly because industry practice used expensive materials and discarded rockets after one use. Elon Musk applied first-principles thinking: What is a rocket made of? Mainly aluminum, titanium, copper, and carbon fiber. Raw material costs were a fraction of finished rocket prices. From that insight, SpaceX decided to build rockets from scratch and make them reusable."

Everything including humans are made of cheap materials but that doesn't convey the value. The AI got close to the answer with it's first sentence (re-usability) but it clearly missed the mark.

andreygrehov 5 days ago||
`Copy as markdown` please.
garff 5 days ago||
Mad AI slop..
bakkerinho 5 days ago||
> This site was paused as it reached its usage limits. Please contact the site owner for more information.

Law 0: Fix infra.

andrerpena 5 days ago||
This looks like a static website that could be served for free from Cloudflare Pages or Vercel, with a nearly unlimited quota. And still... It's been hugged to death, which is ironic, considering it's a software engineering website :).
mghackerlady 5 days ago||
Hell, something like this probably doesn't even need that. Throw it on a debian box running nginx or apache and you'll probably be set (though, with how hard bots have been scraping recently it might be harder than that)
asdfasgasdgasdg 5 days ago|||
Law 1: caching is 90-99% of performance.
arnorhs 5 days ago||
are you saying performance is 90-99% caching? If so that is so obviously untrue.

If you are saying you _can_ fix 90-99% of performance bottlenecks eventually with caching, that may be true, but doesn't sound as nice

hermaine 5 days ago|||
Waybackmachine to the rescue :D https://web.archive.org/web/20260421113202/https://lawsofsof...
jvanderbot 5 days ago|||
Prior probability of a prompt-created website: 50%.

Posterior probability of a prompt-created website: 99%.

kurnik 5 days ago|||
So somebody who doesn’t know how to properly host a static website wants to teach me about software engineering. Cool. 99% sure it’s a vibecoded container for AI slop anyway.
the_arun 5 days ago|||
Laws are there to be broken.
milanm081 5 days ago|||
Fixed, thanks!
esafak 5 days ago||
"Performance doesn't matter!"
nextlsj 4 days ago||
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EverMemory 4 days ago||
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