I missed the part that said it involved leftists, fats, or lesbians.

Yeah, let's ressurect a 30-year-old flame war!

So far as I know, the problem has not yet been detected on other planets or spaceships.

I'm guessing that Martians don't run Windows on their computing machines.

They'll probably postpone is US share prices start dropping.

No browser is going to bring back the good old days.

Is that the motivation for all the AI slop hitting open source projects? People trying to pick up cheap credibility and resume points? I'm really curious why it's such a problem...

Yeah, like that matters.

I've had a long professional development career, and the 2026 frontier models do most coding and debugging work far faster and better than me. I wish like hell that LLMs could be un-invented, but to be an effective person, one must deal with reality.

All the trust and verification issues you mention are issues with human developers as well. Even "accountability" for software faults doesn't really stick to individual developers unless it's egregious and frequent... bugs are expected. The only real differences on the software quality front are scale: the LLM can write more code more quickly, but it can also review and test more coffee more quickly.

I do agree that many orgs will fall into the trap of writing unmaintainable software simply because they don't balance that increase in scale. The great improvement is that when these systems collapse under their own weight or sing technology, the pros will be able to rewrite them much faster.

These days it's more economical to sacrifice incels.

A brown nose?

Yeah, and Trump is promising to wrap up the war immediately after the upcoming elections.

I've always been a big fan of space exploration, but for a country that can't afford its lifestyle a moon base doesn't sound very important priority.

(Or maybe I should have said "isn't willing to pay for" its lifestyle.)

My cranky post was about a Samsung. I didn't mention the brand because I assumed their all that way.

I bought my first-ever "smart" TV this year, and the interface is horrible. The hardware is fine, but everything else is designed for people pushing stuff, rather than for a user.