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Unicorns, strapped with rockets, too busy looking at each other to realise the Earth is far gone.

They'll kill us all, or they'll kill each other. They sure as hell ain't making the world a better place, like they promised.

Soon none of us will be! right?

citation needed...

It doesn't sound like you're in the industry you want to be in.

Heh? How long were you writing "code by hand" before?

It's pretty safe to say that AI will be used on the battlefield making real life and death decisions before it will be able to render a decent pelican on a bike in SVG.

Exactly. You've expressed what I couldn't find the words to say.

I love C, but the shear amount of CVE and crashes are much worse in terms of global energy usage than if it were safe. I imagine the strongest strong-typing ranking that can be saved would come from Swift, where Rust's compile time would tank its ranking...

I don't doubt that it did it but I wouldn't want to maintain whatever it ended up spewing after 35 hrs.

In my experience, AI fixes problems by mostly adding more code.

It's a short term gain for a long term hurt.

Side note... the best pixel fonts are the ones a game programmer, on a 48hrs ludum dare run, is inevitably speed drawing, pixel by pixel, in MS Paint :)

This post is straight up AI writing. Which shows really poor judgement...

    The problem isn't laziness — it's abdication.

Wow.

Whoever even posts these on HN should take a look in the mirror. Are you trolling?

Yeah it's rather odd, also jumps like this in ADA makes you wonder

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ada/

I know of this notations but I don't see many people using [static n].

Not sure why, maybe it doesn't feel like C anymore, maybe it feels hacky?

typically if you're passed an array you'd want to get more anyway, so you'd get passed a struct. Not sure.

I don't use AI to write like I wouldn't use AI to think.

I absolutely hate it as a reader. I'm interested in your opinion, your writing is your <proof of work>.

I would too suffer from fatigue from getting a wall of text every day where the effort to produce it might have been a coffee run, and I'd have to sift through it as it claims to end the world as we know it.

This is more than grind...

It's called Stockholm syndrome...

The main issue I have is by the time I got my brick delivered from Amazon about SwiftUI 3rd edition, the 4th edition was out. It's a door stopper now.

They're also incredibly useless. If I get a digital book, I can search it, highlight and categorize. And it doesn't weigh or occupy the size of a phone book. Many programming books are just gnarly and unpleasant for casual reading (unless it's a small thin book but it won't go into enough details).

I won't get into the copy pasting argument because someone will inevitably argue about how you should type the examples by hand to learn more! but not consider how many examples are in a book...

So when it comes to buying classics like K&R, get a printed version! But when it comes to 400+ pages, nope, buy digital.

So I think people still crack open books, but they're not paper ones nearly as much.

It's also relative to the employment numbers.

Companies are shrinking body counts, so you have less buyers of programming books.

No, Teams classics was a much better product. This is javascript slop all over. From unresolved updates to inconsistent state across the screens, it's insanely bad.

"Beta" in their world appears to be yolo-commit and mic drop.

The amount of brokenness in Teams never stops to astonish. It's that bad I think it's a psyop to nudge people back to the office.

It's the natural flow of tech conversations. Like a splash, it follows with ripples, the sine wave of for-comments and against-comments, and eventually comes to an equilibrium.

Wrote PHP for years. I miss it.

Sure it's full of wtfs and as consistent at French on a good day.

But as a business language, it's as twisted as the business needs its code to be, I found it to be a great match. And there is literally nothing you can't get Laravel to do. It's that good.

Now working with other stacks, most colleagues' features are "wow wow wow slow down this is a big deal" ... In PHP/Laravel, it ain't.

PHP is fast enough, powerful enough and comfortingly weird enough. It reminds you that computers weren't that serious.

Your Copilot free offering isn't the Copilot they're using within the company for coding assistant. It's confusing I know.

Oh my god this is the best name to the application. You win the weekend.

I thought it was to burn the planet so as long as one island remains untouched.

The title is somewhat bait. It reads like MSFT is using less AI, while in fact it's just a force swap to Copilot.

Arguably, Copilot is GPT 5? Not sure what the CLI offers behind the covers.

Yeah. Meta on the other hand. Ouch.

It's historically called: selling buckets and shovels during a gold rush.

The only way to get consistently rich in any bubble economy.

Those people don't review.

If it could import and export postman collections and env, you'd have a customer for life!

Someone posted vague screenshots overnight of a bug in exit I think. Waiting on the write up.

Edit: ref: https://xcancel.com/ortegaalfredo/status/2057109561702580311