Yes, exactly this.

When compilers came along, some people honestly thought it would dumb down programming so much that anyone could do it.

When high level programming languages came along, they rejoiced again - now finally anyone can make software.

When Intellisense meat you no longer had to remember variable names, write your own imports and could guess how most libraries work, the bells rang out once again in celebration.

And now we have AI, it’s cool but really just another step like all those steps before. For me, it’s a replacement for the documentation I never read anyway. I can ask an AI a stupid question rather than bothering a human developer.

These days it’s my job to manage a small team of developers - when I ask them why they wrote a stupid thing that makes no sense, 90% of the time, the answer is that an AI wrote it for them.

“Government is broken”

Elon: Trump’s efficiency tzar

“drain the swamp”

Every time I think “perhaps I should give Golang another try”, it’s shit like this that keeps me noping out

Me too, however I vaccinated early and was mostly good about isolation when it was required, hence it’s plausible that I have been lucky.

Weird advertorial article that takes 20 paragraphs to get to the point!

Is this what Hal 9000’s memories were stored on?

EHTrust are mad as a box of frogs. They claim that phones cause cancer, which is something that all major cancer research charities dispute. Nothing they say can be taken seriously.

I work in Computational finance. I don’t think I’ve seen Matlab in over a decade. These days it’s 100% Python

I’m doing my part

I refuse to take part in this

IntelliJ for just about everything.

Does Plex have a plugin for Archive.org content?