24 senior developers say half their shipped code is Ai generated. This should be the title. Not very impressive.

I am afraid the situation will be worse: the "companies" will not wait for super-intelligent AI, they will just get high on the hype and will destroy the life of people by replacing them with over-hyped AI that will not be able to do the same jobs. So we will get enshitification AND poverty.

No I never said that, I replied to "FYI, Dan Bricklin [wikipedia.org] invented the spreadsheet" And it is not just manipulating, it is also display and everything a tabular application does. It is not interactive, true, but check out the patent, it looks pretty good, comparable to VisiCalc.

No, It was not Dan Bricklin who invented the spreadsheet. The first commercial software to work with spreadsheets was "LANguage for Programming Arrays at Random" (LANPAR) by Rene Pardo and Remy Landau. This was in 1969, ten years before VisiCalc and Dan Bricklin. The spread sheet itself being just a table, and as Wikipedia says being quite similar to accounting work sheets, the concept is of course much older.

This is exactly why automatic updates should not be on by default, especially for work critical tools that are used by people who should know what they are doing. If I break my own tools it's one thing, if someone else breaks my tools it's a completely different story and should not be allowed.

Still smaller than an actual cat :-(

According to the video, the developer (an UI/UX enthusiast) states that the Thunderbird UI is outdated and old. But two questions arise: is he aware that Thunderbird exists exactly for the users that want that old interface? and is he saying that potential users that might want a newer interface can't just use another email client? So, who's need will be addressed here? The old users that like the interface as it is, or the potential new users that can already use a more modern client?

"Security flaws found in the "open-source" software created by volunteers collaborating online, building off each other's work." If a company uses the work of "volunteers collaborating online" it should at least do some checks on that software, improve it, make it better, more secure and make sure it suits their needs. That's the difference from proprietary software where you buy it and then discover that it has a quirk that works against you or it has a security hole that you can't fix yourself, not even hire somebody to fix it. And companies, at least responsible ones, are doing this, of course. The author is just naive to think they don't. The simple fact is that with "open-source" there are more eyes looking for security holes and fixing them, including programmers employed by companies.

Doesn't seem to work. Tried "former CEO of Merill Lynch" and "Merrill's mess". Neither gives me a link to the article, so it seems the article itself was removed from the index.

It's not about his beliefs. It's about his actions. He participated with lots of money to an act of discrimination against people who did him no wrong. And he didn't have the decency not to drag the name of his employer into that mess.

No, but his actions of agression, based on those beliefs, towards people who didn't do him any harm, kind of speak against his ability to lead.

Good, do that, but remember that you are also just an employee and can get the boot just as well for firing people just because they don't like you or agree with you. If you can't take criticism, you will be either fired or left to rule over cowards.

I think you are turning the story on it's head. It is Brendan Eich who attempted to impose his own moral views on people that he had no connection with, other than the fact that they lived in the same state. So why would the people at Mozilla think he would be more considerate to them? Why would they trust him with power and responsability?

So, because you were pro US invasion of Irak, now you feel you also need to support the Russian invasion of Ukraina? Interesting logic, but clearly flawed.

Skip these fakes you mention and go straight to the real futurologists: Nostradamus and Mother Shipton.
"When pictures seem alive with movements free,
when boats like fishes swim beneath the sea.
When men like birds shall scour the sky.
Then half the world, deep drenched in blood shall die."
-- Mother Shipton, predicting the World Wars

Yes, free market "principles" apply no matter what. And that means that employers who have businesses in countries that "feel a responsibility to [their] country's citizens" will either loose their business to firms from the "third world" because those will have lower costs, or will move their production lines to said "third world". Now, the government can feel a responsibility towards local businesses and put ridiculous taxes on imports from the "third world countries". It usually escalates like this and spins further and further out of control. Because balance in any system is a fragile thing, there is usually an oscillation around it, and some theories say that any intervention from powerful entities (like governments, or monopolies) can spin the system out of control.