If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.
Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?
Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.
Meanwhile in the LLM "search engine" land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116
Surely it is helping to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful
I think ClownStrike is the name they deserve
Ugh, just reading the summary made me want to puke. What the fuck is wrong with those people. Who the fuck thinks that delegating the responsibility to computers is a good idea. Can't they cope with the outcomes of their choices and need to outsource that responsibility to some magick software
Thanks, I hate it
So does Java. /me runs
He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted
And nothing of value was lost
Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too
Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.
ublock is cheaper and actually works