Well, I do have MBSE on the brain, but the idea here is more like a low-code/no-code environment with an ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS “pit of success”… so large that even GenAI can reliably fall into it. Numbered tabs, you go left to right answering questions and fiddling with with prompts, paint-by-numbers for working software.

I imagine that it is theoretically possible to successfully vibe-code, but probably not with a conventional project layout nor would it look much like traditional programming. Something like your interaction primarily being a “requirements list”, which gets translated into interfaces and heavy requirements tests against those interfaces, and each implementation file being disposable (regenerated) & super-self-contained, and only being able to “save” (or commit) implementations that pass the tests.

…and if you are building a webapp, it would not be able to touch the API layer except through operational transforms (which trigger new [major] version numbers]. Sorta like MCP.

Said another way, if we could make it more like a “ratchet” incrementing, and less like an out-of-control aircraft… then maybe?!?

How much you want to bet it includes (and requires) “AI interviews” to suck the last bit of dignity from you?

I guess “death panels” are fine if they are machines?

I thought they already gutted much of AOSP. Like removing the dialer or contacts and stuff.

https://consulo.io/ (Basically a liberated jetbrains intellij/rider thing)

I don’t understand why AI data centers would CONSUME water. Once they fill up their chiller loops, then… that’s it, right?

It’s hard for me to imagine them relying on the temperature of the incoming water, and dumping all the warm water as discharge.

That thumbnail image reminds me of hovercat: https://youtu.be/p1u-R4RVL70

Layman: “Does it have five gees or four like my old one?”

I seem to recall owning a microsoft tablet that could not have secure boot disabled. Why do you suppose it would be hard when (much like phones) there are already products (like chromebooks) that have done this?

Imagine holding a null in your hand… hopefully they sent you only one, and not zero nulls, or worse… -1… and don’t even get be started on imaginary nulls.

My mom once showed me an ad listing cars in the $300 range. It might have been the model-t era, but still…

Now that we have cameras everywhere, and stuff like dna testing… you would think it would be easier now.

Unit tests pass.

So… microsoft has positioned itself between common users and Linux… and as an authority of sorts.

Is that suse-on-a-phone just a tease, or something awesome I have yet to discover?

I wonder why people downvote this… some kind of brand loyalty/emnity, or buyer’s remorse?

I suspect this is unpopular in the tech community, but if this were truly an unpopular opinion, then phones without a headphone jack wouldn’t sell, and they would be replaced in the next generation. Instead, it seems like I get fewer and fewer options each time I look for a phone at the intersection of qualities that matter to me (unlocked bootloader, sd card, headphone jack).

lol… if they had a job that was ONLY writing unit tests, I would take it!

Kind of the reverse… more lamenting the loss of QA and SRE roles in favor of mechanical (AI) code reviewers and non-technical persons rubber-stamping an increasingly deep pipeline that change requests must traverse.