Rust evangelism was one of the things that occurred to me. However it conflicts with the "refactor" instructions. Still, it would be an interesting experiment.

And open source projects are increasingly disallowing AI generated code due to copyright problems. Ie ai generated code cannot be copyrighted, and copyright is critical to open source.

Again, the open source project that does NOT allow AI agent use.

From what I can tell most middle managers hate their employees - especially those who are smarter and more skilled - and can't wait to replace them.

They all probably think they'll be one of the last humans at the company.

It'll be funny when AI supplants middle management.

The right way is for a manager to be the advocate and ally of his subordinates. It can work really well but there's little place for ego and envy.

Original article paywalled. Why do they want to rewrite/refactor the legacy code?

If nothing else, this sounds like a very interesting and timely experiment.

A consequence of this corporate policy might be recent grads spending some time contributing to open source to get some real world experience. Which would in turn be good for the recent grad in the sense that they will learn more in an environment that cannot rely on agentic coding for copyright reasons. They'll get past that inexperienced phase much quicker as a result.

I find it reassuring he will not approve of the 64GB I put into my PC last year.

They are not luxury goods in a fashion industry sense, but Apple is absolutely a status symbol with respect to computers and phones and tablets. Quality plus user experience plus status symbol supports those premium prices.

If the iPhone SE would use that iPhone 13 mini form factor the world would be a better place. :-)

I saw that too. :-)

As if reversing previous leaders can't be a good thing. Under Jobs 1.0 the Macintosh was a commercial failure. While it amazed all of us, we largely did not buy it, it was never profitable under Jobs 1.0, and the Apple II paid the bills for Apple. After Jobs 1.0 was kicked out, quite a few things that Wozniak preferred and Jobs 1.0 rejected were brought back. For example cases that open, expansion slots. Its the post-Jobs .1.0 Macs that eventually became profitable.

Now Jobs 2.0 learned a lot at Pixar and NeXT and by reflecting on his choices at Apple and what eventually worked at Apple, and what did not. He did a much better job the second time around. Not perfect, but good.

THere's a new CEO, a hardware guy, the previous guy a logistics guy. Its natural to make some changes. Changes don't necessarily indicate problems at such a changeover.

Porsche only sells luxury products, though they've occasionally flirted with lesser machines they're above that now, and their highest end vehicles are among the very best in the world. Apple sells everything from mass market up to medium expensive, but if you want the most powerful machine in the fanciest case, Apple has absolutely nothing for you. They are not even vaguely in the running, they aren't anywhere near it, they can't even see it from where they are.

The new CEO is a hardware guy, maybe he is more in touch with what consumers want than a logistics guy?

Apple is not jumping on the AI bandwagon everyone else is on. Apple is leading with respect to local AI, that's something very different, and it is much more private.

The summary is weak, dude had an agenda and still muffed it up.

Hamas didn't even exist until after decades of colonial violence. They didn't spring up out of nowhere. Don't talk about thinking until you try doing some. Or would you just bend over under the same circumstances?

OK, where the fuck is the tiny car? Every time I bring this up some joker pops up to tell me that the wealthy don't have the piles of effective cash they actually do have, in unprecedented amounts, that people who can read are aware of. They then often follow it up sucking their dicks about how they deserve to run off with all the fucking money that they got through an assortment of nefarious bullshit that these cucks are in denial about.

What the fuck do you get out of bending over and spreading your asshole for the rich every time someone mentions that their hoarding is negatively affecting others? Does it make you feel warm in the tum-tum to fantasize about them noticing you? Because if they ever do, they probably won't even waste the time for a derisive snort, you shitstain of a sycophantic snotsucker.

It is in fact insane for anyone to have claimed that Apple would fail for a long time now, because they have huge stacks of cash and huge investments. Apple has more actual cash than almost anyone, they can literally pay their bills for a long time without having to do anything other than authorize payments.

Apple also has big stupid inertia like Microsoft used to have, where people just assumed competence. And they have more technical competence than Microsoft ever did, at least in their domain, and a demonstrated ability to capitalize. Now that they have their own competitive CPU (again, in their domain) they are actually a force again like they used to be.

If they ever get their CPUs to scale up to the really high end, they could genuinely dominate. That's irritating given how much they lock everything down, though.