I see it as the pyramids of our time. You would think with all that money they would build a canal to bypass the straight of Hormuz, but no, islands shaped like trees.

I think some context here is lost. I was asking for parralels between the Dreyfus affair and modern events. The anti Dreyfusards had phrases they used to identify each other and I thought about the parralels between that and the January 6 insurrection. Specifically the statement that the election was stolen. When I asked for similarities that started this conversation, because it basically refused to draw the parralels.

I agree about the environment, however insofar as this tool can help get us out of this political catastrophe caused by the US, it’s unfortunate but necessary. “Drill baby drill” needs to stop by any means necessary.

I don’t live in the US either.

I did put in a complaint. Maybe they fixed it.

Was the porn floppy 8, 5 or 3 inches?

As a nicotine addict, I wouldn’t advise this. Making every one of us go cold turkey in one moment will be the end of humanity. Nicotine withdrawal is no joke.

I don’t understand your fury to be honest. It’s unhinged. So what happened to make you feel this way?

I love it but it’s so hard to watch. My insides hurt.

My wife can’t handle the pain.

It’s fun if you’re running Linux.

I was where you were a few months ago. It’s an awful feeling and I’ve been obsessed with computers for 28 years. This has been exceptionally difficult for me. I had a really rough year end where I was working on recurring critical defects for weeks. I caused most of them (proximate cause) but the state of the industry itself is what placed me in an impossible position where I was having to make things of poor quality that nobody likes.

Technology itself is not the problem. There is nothing inherently wrong with AI. The way it has presented itself to the world is because of greed and a feeding frenzy. The way it is and works now makes it a bad tool. A tool that does a good job 80% of the time is garbage. It’s being shoved at us with little regard for us and the consequences.

But I am hopeful. I am using AI for my personal projects. It’s not really a choice for me. For many years I’ve tried to get people to work with me on something; anything really. But it either didn’t happen or fizzled out very quickly. These are ideas that I couldn’t execute on my own, and now I can.

So there is a way to find opportunity in chaos. And this is the phase we are in.

I can also see positive things coming out of this. I’ve seen quite a few total newbies who switched to Linux who said they would have been stuck without AI and given up.

The failure of this massive experiment will become the basis for new innovation. We should be perplexed at where we are now, considering how windows forms apps were easier to build 15 years ago than a basic web app is now. We accumulated a lot of complexity without our productivity increasing, instead we are in desperation trying to throw money and “compute” at the complexity.

AI kind of feels like asbestos to me. Too useful to ignore and too harmful to embrace. But I really think that from some unexpected corners we might see a new era for technology emerging. I am optimistic.

You got rickrolled in 2026. Congratulations!

I am building a commercial application in my free time and I can definitely see evidence of this templatization. There are things that are very common in C# developer’s implementations which I deliberately don’t want to do. The AI will do it with reckless abandon. I can tell it not to, but it sneaks back in.

OSS library funding has been a huge issue in general. I really think the companies that have trillion dollar market caps can fund the development of top libraries but they just don’t.

I’m not from the UK and also don’t have any background on this, can you perhaps explain why it’s overreach?

I would think that ID documents being digital is a logical step to digitisation.

They’re always going on about cleaning in and behind the ears. Let’s be honest here. Ears are pretty ugly and you don’t need them to hear. You can prevent so many infections because cutting off the ear makes it easier to clean the ear canal.

That’s what they want you to think.

Well it can be. Just not in the way they think.

The only good Windows is a dead windows. Welcome 🙂

Maybe more women are dumping religion. This would be the natural backlash from taking their reproductive rights away, because it’s very common to become sceptical when some ideology starts to hurt you.

They can just hire grok to be the ceo

Even if you can do this with AI and it produces a fully working result, the biggest problems in legacy systems are not the programming languages they are written in.

In fact converting one programming language into another doesn’t require AI. That’s because programming languages are uniform and exact. You can easily find tools that do this already.

The biggest problem is decades of technical debt and forgotten rules. With old mainframes the people who wrote the code are often no longer with us.

I don’t envy you. I learned cool in university and vowed to never touch it again. Without going into too much detail, what are some of the common problems?