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Lots of ink spilled on "Loop engineering", but no one seems to connect it to its much older name: Cybernetics. Maybe by the year's end, we'll recognize that it was all Control Theory engineering all along.

Ryanne Dolan

@ry.codes

Hilarious that SWEs spent literal decades figuring out "observability" and now are discovering control.

20/6/26, 5:19 pm0 reposts4 likes

Bryan (they/them)

@chaosgreml.in

20 June

Have you found that mocking people is a great way to encourage them to learn things?

Ryanne Dolan

@ry.codes

20 June

Works about as well as condescending.

Bryan (they/them)

@chaosgreml.in

20 June

And yet you did both? Maybe you’re confused. I’m autistic, and I’m asking a pretty straightforward question here. /gen /srs

Ryanne Dolan

@ry.codes

20 June

What makes you think I'm trying to get anyone to learn smth? Or that I'm mocking someone in particular? I was commenting on software eng broadly, which is full of people inventing things that have existed forever, e.g. cybernetics, per OP. The whole field is incurious. We should read more.