Links #2025-24 - Errors, fatigue, and haunting tech debt

Articles and videos I found last week that I actually read or watched until the end.

• [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling - go.dev

  The Go team announced that they will no longer try to improve the error handling syntax. I think this is a good thing. If after so many attempts, they talk about hundreds of proposals, nothing better has come up, it is time to stop. But then again, I never understood why people were so bothered with it. Providing a very clear flow of execution, even in the case of errors, is one of the best features of the language.

• I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now - blog.glyph.im

  This is an excellent write-up of how someone who is neither an AI fanatic, nor an AI skeptic, feels about the ongoing avalanche that is AI discussions. I consider myself somewhat of an enthusiast, but I think I am done linking posts about genAI for now. Will get back when something truly new surfaces.

• Machine Code Isn't Scary - jimmyhmiller.com

  Not sure if the author fully achieved their goal. It still looks intimidating to me, and a lot of details were left out. But they do give you a good starting point for experimentation and encourage you to follow the thread. After all, if the machine is working, and it did not use magic, you should be able to figure out how it works.

• The Worst Thing I Ever Built - ktema.org

  A story that is familiar. The thing you build new today, becomes technical debt within a week. Building something from outdated parts... will come back to bite you. Even if you manage to outrun it for 20 years.