Hot take: Haskell is far more important as a way of figuring how to write maintainable code than a technology itself. It’s a damn shame other languages feel much less appealing after you get familiar with Haskell.

Case in point: The code of the Kubernetes persistent volume controller. "Space shuttle style code" is a cope which is a result of your language not having exhaustive pattern matching and inherent RAII. Pattern matching literally doesn't let you make any of these mistakes, while

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Repeat after me. Good abstractions: ✅ Semigroup ✅ Monoid ✅ Monad ✅ Applicative ✅ Functor ✅ Profunctor Bad abstraction: ❌ Strategy ❌ Factory ❌ Builder ❌ Prototype ❌ Adapter ❌ Bridge ❌ Composite

Mathematician asking physicists how they switched the sum and integral

Apple just GaryMarcus'd LLM reasoning ability

Topology win

Most people use AI for things they don’t know. However, the correct way is to use AI for things you already know.

mathematics is a scam

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