I'm thinking maybe I should give in and list this on OLX, what do you think guys🤔

We can use AI to improve understanding of the thing we're developing. For example, why learn entire ALSA stack through documentation and trying to understand code the hardcore way, if we can do this first: > use HTML to visualize what is going on at the level of detail we're interested in and then we can also add this: usecoherence.dev/blog/2026-0… to measure how much complexity in that ALSA request chain, and what takes most cognitive effort to understand. Software engineering is massively about managing complexity, but the best Engineers are able to reduce complexity, delete code, make it simple to understand, hide deep complexity behind a simple public interface. This is called complexity leverage. Your Linux I/O is only 5 methods: open, seek, read, write, close. A ton of flags, yes. But the interface is simple to use, easy to understand. If you need those extra features, then you dive through flags documentation. But opening file, writing a string to it, and closing can be done in plain C in 10 minutes, and it is the first thing they teach you in Computer Science: printing strings to display, and manipulating files. Now, you are empowered to modify reality, to interact with your SSD, HDD, flash drives, sockets, RAM. Just by spending 10 minutes learning how those basic functions work, you empower yourself to understand pretty much entire Linux ecosystem: everything is a file. Network: write(socket_fd, "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n", 18); Reading CPU: open("/proc/cpuinfo", O_RDONLY); Mouse: open("/dev/input/mice", O_RDONLY); IPC (inter-process comm): # int fd = open("/tmp/my_pipe", O_WRONLY); # write(fd, "Hello Process B!", 16); 10 minutes and you can understand how to program Linux. That's the power of complexity leverage, abstraction. But how can we achieve this level of abstraction? That's the trick. We need enough understanding around problem to see simple interface around it. Cognitive effort prevents us to understand world quickly, and delays efficient, tiny programs similar to Linux I/O. Compressing complexity into an interface everyone can understand in 10 minutes and use is the highest possible art form. We must never lose the art of making things easy to understand, and simple to use.

Holy moly We are all connected!

this is why hiring is so broken guys nobody knows how to evaluate problem solving skills Imagine interviewing taxi driver by making them solve abstract leetcode style questions "explain how transmission works when you go through gravel, and now make it also -80F outside, can you solve this using log(N) amount of fuel?" a better interview is giving them a car, a passenger and looking at how they navigate the obstacle course without making passenger sick and even better interview is actually giving them a real passenger and real location where they need to be delivered and then looking at the outcome: did passenger survive? did car survive? how much time it took to drive from A to B? and so on