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I think that somewhere around 27 million lines of code, chaotic effects start to manifest… At. 100 million or so, Windows happens.

Systems work by burning dreamy young smart kids until they become cynical sarcastic old people with caffeine addiction. Omelas was us all along

Fr tho

I'm going to steal this line for use in day to day conversation.

The more I know about computers, the less faith i have in them working at all, lol.

honestly given how complex programming languages are now, even something as simple as hello world is doing a lot behind the scenes.

Amazing when you consider how many layers there are between you and the CPU and even then considering what s a CPU actually does!

As a retired software developer, I agree.

Our tools and libraries are, for the most part, much, much better for building large projects than they used to be.

It's a miracle that the hardware cooperates more than half the time, let alone the software.

Its all about the architecture although many will not agree and just start typing.

Give it time, you'll find that not only doesn't it work, but it never could have.

that’s the trick, they don’t

Hence the Incompleteness theorem.

I worked at ebay. The software architecture closely resembled the chain of command. Each group had a cluster of services they maintained, and we were constantly cross negotiating APIs. And then someone who was quietly maintaining a critcal piece would leave, and all hell would break loose.

After nearly 30 years building it, and seeing how it happens in the wild, I can't disagree.

s/software//

Given all the"moving parts" I will frequently say I'm surprised that anything works