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"Techno-optimism" is a sign of V.C. crisis (maxread.substack.com)
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One reason that, three and a half years later, Andreessen is reiterating that “it’s time to build” instead of writing posts called “Here’s What I Built During the Building Time I Previously Announced Was Commencing” is that Marc Andreessen has not really built much of anything.

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[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

software is eating the substance of words like "build", "engineer", and "utility" etc

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

increasingly attracted to making "engineer" a more widely protected term

[–] raktheundead@fedia.io 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As I've mentioned before, software "engineering" all too often produces the digital equivalent of the First Tay Bridge.

But then, I've had a reverse snobbery about the term "engineer" for several years and it still chagrins me that my job title includes the word when I'm really a technician.

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago

This is why I think Henry Petroski’s To Engineer Is Human should be required reading for anyone in software

[–] fasterandworse@awful.systems 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry, I shouldn’t respond with a link to a one hour video. But it’s Alan Kay.

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

nah, I’ve got a YouTube video for this exact thread and it’s only 4 hours long is already an awful.systems tradition

[–] m@blat.at 5 points 2 years ago

@fasterandworse “architecture”

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 8 points 2 years ago

I would say my main question about “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” an essay by the prominent venture-capitalist Marc Andreessen, is whether or not the goatse was intentional.

The lack of ring makes it point to no. Clearly Marc is not a man of culture.

[–] TQuid@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Enjoying the subtle nod to goatse here