I had the head of accounting personally come to my cubicle for a $200 expense.

Wait until you learn about Python 3.

Is there? What is the reason? Let me know, maybe we can win a Nobel together.

No, AI ist not at all like a spellchecker or a calculator. It takes away the ability to think for yourself and act for yourself. Which in the rund takes away the ability to make decisions in your own. You replace the 'wwjd' armbands with 'wwaid' mental cuffs.

Then so does ever human editor out there. If someone has written the words, has gone over them a few times to rework them, then goes to an LLM and says, "Look this over and suggest corrections", that is no different than going to a human editor. A human editor will go over your work and make suggestions. They will tell you, "This doesn't work" or "Remove this part".

That is taking away your ability to think for yourself in the same way an LLM does. In both cases they are looking at your completed work and correcting it.

If Slashdot code ever gets open-sourced, I'll fix the Unicode.

You...can't even write complete sentences.

Your comment makes me think you've never used an LLM to write significant code. Why not advise to use an AGENT.mr?

Do you know how many SV companies let you log in with an empty password because no one tests negative cases? We are so broken as programmers.

It's amazing how few programmers are willing to use a profiler, even if you show them how and why. I don't know what braindead rock our profession collectively crawled out from under, but it's the rock that is allergic to simple tools to solve the problem.

It's the most popular language.

FOSS software of course also has an upgrade cycle however there are really major differences

• * you can almost completely keep the upgrade cycle within your operating system by only using add no packages for specific specialist software you directly work with
• * you'll normally be able to completely control rollback yourself and be able to see the reason for any upgrade, deciding if it's needed for you
• * provided you use a "free as in beer" system, you won't have software costs for the upgrade
• * you can find many people who can understand and verify what's changing during an upgrade

They can certainly write code, but the code they write will be "their code", and I will at best be reviewing it for them. It won't be "my code" because I didn't write it.

Never been to Kabukicho, Japan?

Came here to say this.

"Strike them down, and God will know His own"

As soon as money gets into your hobby, it will ruin your hobby. Not that PHP could get much worse, but that's my opinion and some people like it. (Personally if I had made PHP, I would have written it in FORTH, with syntactically significant colors).