When corporations do this it's usually the first step in a major overhaul. The last to go will not get treated so politely, they'll be kicked out.

It's simple logic. I can't provide real value-add as a regular developer or IT expert anymore. AI is good enough in most cases. At the same time we're experiencing a demographic collapse. This means that people are becoming more valuable, not less. The Nash equilibrium of a society banking on this sort of automation is somewhere beyond a fertility crisis and the collapse of culture. The only winning move is to exit the industry, I'm not needed here anymore. I'm currently looking for ways to go back closer to performing arts that I did in the 90ies using my extensive IT skills as a cultural technique rather than a job.

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...

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.

... Anti-Matter Grenades?

Pretty much this.

AFAICT and have heard the cascading climate change effects have already been kicked loose. The planets albedo (it's ratio of reflection) has already dropped into a feedback loop that will only accelerate things. We can kiss our glaciers goodbye and the dutch will likely have to find a new place to stay within this century. As some island nations already have to know.

It's it a guzzling Harley or something with 7+ liters per 100km? Or a SuperCub with 1.5 liters? The latter would be somewhat acceptable IMHO. The former not.

Does anyone actually use these browsers or is it just a ploy to soak up VC dollars?

... cybersecurity: .Net C# and Java.

*Dadum* *Crash* *Thud*

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.

Yeah, my Musk sycophant friend says the same whenever I express skepticism about Elon's endeavors or character. Which is funny since I rarely read Electik and my arguments aren't from there.

... I hope this move doesn't screw it up.

For the uninformed: Deno is basically the "new" official non-shitty successor to Node.js. It's secure (closed) by default, supports TypeScript natively without the need for transpilation, has the full browser API on the server side and comes with a bunch of neat other features that turn Jamstack development from the bloated and fickle shit-show that is Node into a chill walk in the park. I've been using it exclusively for a few years now and have come to avoid Node.js like the plague for real world deployment.

If you climb a mountain and see the sunrise from the summit, you feel like a champ. Because you've done something hard. Now what if the park service builds a road up the other side and you finish your climb only to find the top crowded with tourist buses? Well now you feel like a chump... a superior chump maybe, but the sense of satisfaction you got from summiting will be gone.

The new Xiami 18 Fold is probably still available and is basically the exact same shell hardware build.
And AFAICT it's cheaper and better in the specs. Which was to be expected.

Gotta envy Apple though, how much they got their fan crowd under control. Pretty impressive IMHO.

That's all really complicated... just confiscate their toys and bar them from using smartphones and social media for one year. Maybe throw in a few hours of community service.

Done. Problem solved. They'll grow up to be well-adjusted, or at least well-adjusted enough not to robo-rape girls.