You mean like XML does?

Your mistake is thinking of "the government" as a unitary entity. Different parts of it want different things.

But that's my whole point, what you describe is the 20-50% faster scenario.

What is driving most of the annoyance with pull requests are the folks that just tell it to do something and then it spits out a bunch of plausible code, particularly if not testable.

One example:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3...

The proposal was *probably* vibe coded and submitted to the kernel to get some attribution, and the code was fundamentally untestable, and constituted basically LLM guesses about what PCIe7 would look like. Structurally credible, but a volume of negative value crap because it's outright incorrect per people that actually know what it looks like and had to waste their time just in case it was a credible origin for this.

*This* is what responsible open source contributors are up against, not because the slop is viable, but just because the slop drowns out the better. Your AI generated code may be fine because you actually oversee it credibly, but by volume most GenAI output is slop, because of the humans feeding the prompt getting more volume if slop suffices for them.

GenAI rewards those that just don't give a crap and trust the output far more than it rewards people that want to make sure the generated output is actually what you want and done well.

So someone turning on the token hose to an agent that can create and comment on pull requests and all this stuff flood with useless crap. They are going to vomit up probably about 100x more "stuff" to the world than a traditional developer, and further it's a fad where there's probably 5x more people trying.

Someone that uses it to generate and curate the result, who would be able to likely contribute even without the agent, *might* be able to be significantly more productive with credible product. But we are talking about maybe 1.2x to 1.5x in the context of credibly shareable code that would be put into projects (a higher multiplier for throwaway single purpose stuff that won't need maintenance or is something like a basic site).

When 99% is slop, it's hard to imagine the 1% to be worth it.

Well, the use case is clearly to produce binaries with smaller memory footprint. But *I* didn't even notice that Debian had disabled it.

Yeah, I think the big question is was Eclipse as unhinged as the blog posts suggests throughout, or was this unhinged state brought on by unreasonable treatment by Microsoft...

From some analysis, I think MS team became less competent and more bureaucratic, and probably struggled to understand whatever the hell Eclipse was getting at, and Eclipse was perhaps on top of confusing was also potentially offended that they failed to respond in what he thought was an appropriate amount of time.

So Eclipse obviously had real stuff, but maybe MSRC couldn't understand, and Eclipse took it gravely personally and here we are.

The other option is that MSRC engaged as described and drove Eclipse to be unhinged after trying to engage in a reasonable way.

My life experience is probably that the former is the scenario, that he was smart, but communicated poorly and took offense easily when faced with a boringly incompetent corp team and mistook their nature for malice initially. Things might have gotten heated on Microsoft's side, but I would guess Eclipse went off the rails first, based on his communication style on display in his blog...

FWIW, if they want to class insecticides as "toxins", I think they're probably right. Also plasticizers. And likely a few other industrial chemicals that aren't properly cleaned up.

For some people's beliefs and values, whataboutism is all they've got to offer.

Well, that and projecting.

The even shout "aieeeeee!" when some something scares them.

How do you shut down an organization like the CIA? The mere hint of a serious attempt to tear it down would result in assassinations and the hiding of some data (critical of CIA personnel) and the backup of other data (in preparation for blackmail, etc.).

Perhaps a replacement agency could be set up, then the CIA slowly defunded with most current employees prohibited from future government employment.

Are ads the problem? My impression is that the danger of social media is the presence of people promoting violence, whether those people are loonies, nihilists, or agents of enemy governments.

Children need to be taught critical thinking, and also taught to recognize hucksters and hate-mongers.This should be a continuing part of education and does not need special funding.

Each state that gets money in a judgement or settlement, should use that money to make sure their public education system teaches kids how to block ads.

By 2030, I don't think anyone should be able to graduate high school in America, unless they've learned how to be ad-free (on screens under their control; obviously they won't gain superpowers to blank out billboards or the sides of buses).

Well, a baseball bat *is* a deadly weapon, if used as a weapon.

OTOH, when arguing about whether it's a bomb the definitions of the terms are less clear. And when arguing about whether it's an explosion, high energy chemists/engineers will have a different definition than folks who don't deal with the details.

To me, it's an explosion. If some professional wants to say "No, it's a deflagration." I'm not going to say he's wrong, but I'm not wrong either. We're just speaking different dialects of English.

Funny thing is that it's literally the opposite, it's the worst at stretching the imagination.

Just saw a claude commercial, and their pitch was "hey, you can use us to make a knock-off dropbox"

Their big stunt a while back was "we made a knock-off C compiler"

Everything is about making knock offs because that's what GenAI can do. It can certainly tailor the knock off in ways that were easier than what it formerly took, but roughly knock-off in their bread and butter

A generic site builder... Yeah that's pretty firmly in the reach of GenAI...