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reedf1yesterday at 4:11 PM3 repliesview on HN

it's even worse than that! non-devs are doing it as well


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esafakyesterday at 4:27 PM

That's what democratization looks like. And the new participants are happy!

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snowstormsunyesterday at 4:20 PM

it's even worse than that! bots are doing it as well

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vernrVingingItyesterday at 4:27 PM

That's the goal. Through further training, whittle away at unnecessary states until only the electrical states that matter remain.

Developers have created too many layers of abstraction and indirection to do their jobs. We're burning a ton of energy managing state management frameworks, that are many layers of indirection away from the computations that are salient to users.

All those DSLs, config syntaxes, layers of boilerplate waste a huge amount of electricity, when end users want to draw geometric shapes.

So a non-dev generates a mess, but in a way so do devs with Django and Elixir, RoR, Terraform. When really end of the day it's matrix math against memory and sync of that state to the display.

From a hardware engineers perspective, the mess of devs and non-devs is the same abstract mess of electrical states that have nothing to do with the goal. All those frameworks can be generalized into a handful of electrical patterns, saving a ton of electricity.

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