Szabolcs de Gyurky

This is sincerely the worst book I've ever read on software development, and one of the worst I've found on any category in my life.

In fact, de Gyurky is so bewilderingly clueless that I wondered whether the book was an elaborate joke. But it's a Wiley-IEEE book, and these guys don't really have a sense of humor, so I had to chalk it up to editorial incompetence.

De Gyurky's misguided and nationalistic ramblings on everything from military discipline to drugs in the workplace turn out to be so wrong and contradictory they're unintentionally funny. He gets every single philosopher he mentions wrong. And his crowning chapter, where he purportedly sketches the architecture of a truly autonomous system --real AI--, is so incredibly naive, so borderline crackpot, it's actually endearing.… (mehr)