TIOBE is based on counts of web search hits using the query "[language name] programming".

This methodology (that was questionable even when humans turned to web content created by other humans to seek help about programming languages) is now absolutely useless when humans use AI coding agents for programming.

The interactions that used to appear publicly in sites like Stack Overflow (new monthly questions posted down 98% from its peak) now belong in private chats between developers and their AIs, out of reach from web search indexers and thus invisible to TIOBE.

What TIOBE sees is mostly the fossilized landscape of two years ago. The rest is noise.

This is a service that was acquired by Google. So in this case even people that were actively avoiding Google products got screwed.

The emergence of LLMs is another factor that makes the TIOBE index irrelevant. Two years ago, people looking for programming language help would ask a question in Stack Overflow, which would then get indexed by search engines. Today, they'd just ask ChatGPT, and the question will be invisible to search engines and TIOBE. In 2025 a higher TIOBE rank probably means AIs suck at that language and people are resorting to looking for answers the old way.

I once made this meme:

Elon Musk: "Remote workers pretend to work!"

Workers: "What do you think we do in the office?"

Check out the article on RSS by Molly White.

They just publish hype fed to the by CEOs of Anthropic and the like, who have slop to sell.

Why not interview Emily Bender and review "The AI Con"?

From the preliminary report

"As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory. The scrutiny of maintenance records revealed that the throttle control module was replaced on VT-ANB in 2019 and 2023. However, the reason for the replacement was not linked to the fuel control switch. There has been no defect reported pertaining to the fuel control switch since 2023 on VT-ANB."

So the inspection recommended by the 2018 advisory you mentioned was not carried out. It is, however, not relevant in this case since the whole module (which includes the fuel control switches) was replaced for other reasons. So if the switches had been, inded, defective in 2018, that was corrected by the whole module being replaced.

Isn't this broadcast flag all over again?

When you see lights in the sky, you cannot tell how far they are, and therefore you cannot tell how fast or slow they are moving. If you don't know the size of the object it's impossible to judge it's speed or your distance from it.

It's really amazing what happens when people look up and see airplanes flying at night and they think it's drones. I live in NJ and every video and/or photo I saw of a "drone" was just an airliner going to Newark airport, The news media just hyped this up for no good reason.

According to this article they can't say how many GPUs they actually have, as that would expose violation of US export law.

I saved an article from 1983 that was predicting certain future with AI (expert systems at the time). They were also predicting that Japanese computers would take over. Blast from the past

It irks me that people who do not understand what a job is think AI can do it. A developer probably spends about 10% of their time actually writing code. Rest of the time is spent figuring what the users need/want, or modifying/debugging existing code.

The joke is "AI will replace developers, as soon as users are able to tell it exactly what they want."

Also, wasn't COBOL, the "english-like" language, supposed to make programmers obsolete?

IMHO we should create an AI to replace VCs and CEOs - should be much easier!