I miss the instant gratification of those desktop IDE's. It's hard to unsee it as dev tooling grows more bloated and indirect over time.

Maybe Cherokee Nation Will Return. Nobody has mathematically proven the bloat must be in there. I suspect it's resume buzzword crack. YAGNI still means something. Every "desktop IDE's can't do X" claim I've encountered has been debunked. (Not claiming they have it, only that the Laws of the Universe don't forbid it.)

I would have loved to have specialized in Delphi/Lazarus. The web convolutificated UI coding. I miss the days of focusing on domain issues instead of ever-changing buggy layer-filled tooling. DOM sucks the big one. Where's that DeLorean when I need it?...

What is SQL doing on the list? Everything else is a general purpose procedural language, and then they added in one domain specific query language?

R is domain-specific.

There is a need for educated guessers, regardless of what we call them. The alternative is clueless guessers, who give us tariff inflation and stupid wars.

> was there a point you were trying to make?

Don't ask, or you'll get a page full of synonyms for the point! You should know better than feed TrollGPT

P.S. I know some b$stard is working on GoatseGPT.

I don't know WTF that bot is, but I want one!

Music composers have been using various "composer algorithms" for centuries for ideas. You don't hear about it because most users stay mum. Cartoonists usually have books of sample poses and facial expressions.

Best to get back to judging if the final result is "good", not whether it was bot-assisted, because detection will grow ever harder. Move on, can't put CatGPT back in the bag. Artists are becoming de-facto curators, so think of it as curating contests.

Apple seems to feel the same, and thus doesn't want to tie up too much money in AI. After the poppage*, Apple can snap up AI-ware at a nice discount.

* "bursting"?

the company reversed its decision after they filed a GDPR data request seeking evidence. Others were less fortunate,

  Here in 'Murica plutocrats get to grab us by the ePussy unless we bribe them with a gold RV.

Unite behind figuring out scientific mysteries.

...because IF it's a bubble, the bursting is going to be worse than the mortgage bubble and dot-com bubble combined if the oil embargo is still on.

Invest in doomsday shelters.

I see no quote there that implies 100%. Tiqui, you read poorly.

DilbertBossGPT was set to 11 for that one

Correction: "It's even possible the messes from coerced AI will create lots of clean-up jobs later."

Better wording: "Pressure to use AI may result in more jobs down the road to clean up AI's mistakes."

Even if only a third of this crap works

It's even possible the messes from coerced AI makes will create lots of clean-up jobs later. Managers pressure employees to use AI, and most will satisfy their token quota to keep their job, but not necessarily with sound engineering and quality control in mind.

It's roughly comparable to using more RAD tools to make non-trivial apps (pre-AI). It can be done "good enough", but is usually a longer-term maintenance headache: penny-wise-pound-foolish. Similar happened with the outsourcing craze roughly 15 years ago. Many regretted it.

"If you want it badly, that's exactly how you'll get it."