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The Beefy 5 Layer Burrito used to be under $1. Yes, that was like 15 years ago, but we're still talking like a 300% increase. Even the regular bean burrito has doubled in price!

This uucico stuff is funny. Do you think there is anyone actually using UUCP on MacOS?

To some extent, but people still need to ultimately decide what to build, if it's being built correctly, etc. The accumulation of crappy code / slop is an issue, but it's going to improve. We're just getting started in all this, people are figuring things out.

They shouldn't use the LLM to do their school work. There is still and will always be value in understanding.

However, to say they "should never use an LLM" entirely is going to make them unemployable.

AI will maintain the features, unless you think we're going back to the old days? The job of a developer will become 1) writing and refining specs, 2) "managing" agents by answering questions, evaluating new models, new tools, etc, 3) testing and validating AI output.

Yes, I miss those days. The late 80's through mid 90's was the golden age of BBSing. The transition from BBSes to ISPs was fun, but I still miss the community aspect of BBSes.

These days, I run Claude Code on a headless VM and SSH in. I don't trust it to run unsupervised on my desktop. Maybe I'm paranoid.

I hesitate to make blanket statements, since this is quickly evolving, but in general I agree. LLM generated docs will quickly degrade to overly verbose, unreadable crap.

Same. I was asked to rebuild an app with AI as an experiment. The original app took months and Opus 5.5 rebuilt it in less than a week.

On the other hand, imagine going back in time to 1985 and telling people that one day AAPL would have over 10x the profit and 20x the market cap of IBM.

Same. I taught myself C when I was in high school, back in the early 90's. Fortunately, in college, I was able to test out of the intro classes for credit.

This makes the $1800 I paid for my Strix Halo motherboard (128G), almost a year ago, look like a real bargain!

You're absolutely right, and that is a fair critique! You have discovered a load-bearing gap, full stop.

In all seriousness, many people here, including myself, regularly receive 5 to 10 page long AI generated "documentation" where it is clear the "author" never made it past the first paragraph.

I was at a small company that had as many PMs as engineers. There was also a "director" in a different department with one report.

Abundance? Yes. Quality? No. I generated over 10,000 lines yesterday because "someone wants the whole thing done in a week." I did look at some of it. Real fast.

I think it was May for me for MacOS 26. I immediately updated to 27. Despite the various bugs, it is still a solid improvement. iOS 27 was also provided huge performance boost to my 5 year old phone!

It probably would've been merged if it had a smaller blast radius. It had "fixed" (actually broken) many unrelated tests in the process of making a small update.

So your P(doom) is 100%? That sounds extreme, but I am open minded! Please explain.

Cool! I never knew anyone who did a 68010 upgrade back in the day.

I also had a 30 meg hard drive on my A500 (Supra, which included the RAM expansion.) It was a pretty decent Amiga setup. I taught myself C on that machine (Lattice / SAS C)

I had it look at some 30+ year old C code I wrote in college and it triggered some sort of guard rail. I mean, the code was bad and full of buffer overflows, but I already knew that.

I've seen similar. They wasted weeks of senior engineering time, between reviews, meetings, and follow up in Slack, only to have the PR closed without merge. The offending individual was eventually moved to another project.

I knew a few owners of 1200s and 4000s. They all had 1084 monitors. I had a VGA monitor on my 3000 though.

I eventually added another 2 megs of fast RAM to my Amiga. It was a huge boost! 3 megs of RAM in 1990 felt insane.

Interesting! So they were able to port the hardware but not the software for whatever reason?

I'm curious, how did the hardware present itself? It couldn't have been an Amiga Zorro card since it would've been impossible to get that into a PC. Did it connect over a serial or parallel port?

I never knew anyone who used the ECS "productivity" modes. That would've required an expensive multisync monitor since other Amiga stuff would still need the 15 kHz support. The only useful feature of ECS, as far as I can recall, was support for additional chip RAM.

I had an Amiga 500, then a 3000. You could really feel the slow performance with 8 and 16 color Workbench screens on the 500.

Unless it's person with a vanity title at a startup or smaller company, they probably want the TLDR version.

I would expect something truly intelligent to be able to communicate well, if nothing else. That means knowing your audience, using plain language where it makes sense. Also, it yaps on and on, babbles endlessly when it a human would likely express something in a much shorter concise way. This is especially obvious when you generate project READMEs or technical docs. I find them borderline unreadable.

It smells of corporate speak, a total nonsense phrase. Even by your own admission, it is essentially meaningless. If I release a model an hour late, I'm "pacing the frontier."