I'm a bit surprised they didn't go for Rocky Linux. Nothing wrong with Debian, mind, but Rocky is downstream from CentOS/RHEL and would be an easier migration.

It has happened under both.

Free speech includes lying.

Merit should always consider strictly value.

The energy problem isn't a long term problem. Smaller, on-site nuclear is coming.

And, though it may annoy many readers here, Trump is part of this push. I'm sure that after decades of demanding more modern nuclear reactors that suddenly Slashdot will recoil in horror and demand we burn whale oil or some such.

The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.

Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.

You sound angry and jealous.

Pretty much. We use Claude where I work. We are on some kind of budget enterprise plan. So we are judicious on what we use it on. If we hit the limit for the month then we wait or request an increase with justification.

Also good because we keep using our brains instead of outsourcing everything to the robots, and that is going to be critical going forward imo.

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Statism creates billionaires.

It still has no teeth. You get to make a presentation to The Overlords, and then they get to ignore it.

Didn't get me wrong, it's better than nothing, but there's no obligation for the government to do anything as far as I can tell.

Be mindful in the voting booth. While neither party is perfect, one is far more likely to promote heavy handed regulation.

I received my first AI-generated pull request recently. It was... not great. A lot of extra code that was not necessary at all, some odd naming conventions, and the size of it all made the whole change set difficult to parse. This wasn't a typical "Well, this works and it's okay, it's just not the way I would do it." Some sections were legitimately terrible.

I have been using AI tools somewhat, but mostly to examine existing structures and answer questions. It's pretty good at that. But the code? I prefer to write it myself. That way I don't forget how it all works, like the people in this article. I am hoping that I can continue to do this for the most part because telling a machine to "just kinda do the thing, y'know" and relying on non-deterministic output scares the crap out of me. Doubly so when I stop being able to understand what's being done to the system.

And one of the devs in the article is from a fintech firm? Really? Man. This isn't good. Well, for them, anyway. For the rest of us it sounds like we have a lot of cleanup work to do...

And what about the computer that was used to write to the floppies?