Episode 40 of @RuntimeArguments is live at RuntimeArguments.fm: "Cargo Cult Programming". Wolf @YesJustWolf leads with F...

Episode 40 of @RuntimeArguments is live at RuntimeArguments.fm: "Cargo Cult Programming". Wolf @YesJustWolf leads with Feynman's 1974 Caltech talk, where South Pacific islanders building runways and wooden headphones after WWII become a warning for anyone doing everything that looks right while missing what makes it work. Feynman's rule: "you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Wolf carries it from the rats that found their way through a maze by the sound of the floor, and the Challenger odds (1 in 100,000 per management, 1 in 100 per the engineers), to the Stack Overflow line you pasted, the build flag an AI added that nobody read, and the green test that never failed first. Jim @jammcq asks the hard question: we all trust Postgres without reading its source, so what makes that different? Wolf's test is not "do you understand it" but "do you know what would show you it's wrong?" Plus Jim's walk through an upload form with Claude, why the code you commit is...