Recently on a meetup, I was asked whether the age of manual note-taking and Zettelkasten is over now that LLM’s are everywhere and can produce so much text in such a short time that humans can’t outcompete them anymore. Outcompeting a computer on producing text was never the goal, of course.
I picked up a term that I have not used in all my years of programming, and I love it: “Drift”. As in “Specification Drift”: you write the spec at time T, implement at T+1, learn something new about the problem domain in the process and adjust your implementation (you know, normal programming) at T+2, then at T+3 the spec doesn’t reflect the reality of the code base anymore.
The April Carnival is closed. See the roundup of all submissions. To kickstart the Swift Blog Carnival, I’ll pick a topic that is inoffensive (I hope!) and applies to the vast ecosystem of Swift programming: Tiny Languages.