He should warn that the super wealthy can attack humans. That’s a much more pertinent issue, as his actions demonstrate.

Could be like a family theme park where five year olds get to hunt birds and kill them.

IIRC the reason dodos are extinct is that it was easy to just walk up to them and kill them. That’s no fun for hunting.

Yeah, that's one of the things I've been mulling over.

However, in a way, this discussion isn't new. Developers these days in general don't start with writing assembly any more (which I actually did when I was 15) and so don't really understand how a CPU works. That has caused some of the same arguments. But has it become a problem really?

These days, developers start at a higher level of thinking about writing programs and go from there. AI code generators just raise that level even higher.

If it can be used by a senior dev to produce code quickly, it could be a big win.

Also, the dev role would change to be more of a requirements analyst. Devs right now have to carry many hats, cutting down on that is also a big plus.

As far as I've heard, reforestation of the Amazon isn't possible, because it's a fragile ecosystem that can't regrow once the nutrients have been washed away by rain.

I'll take a few million years to grow back, not the four years mentioned in the article.

It’s a matter of not needing to carry the food for that time as well. Humans eat a lot when they’re awake.

If it doesn’t have network access, you also don’t need security updates.

On Macs, my personal experience has been that the small amount of RAM that the basic models ship with (8GB) isn't enough to run an Electron app next to anything else on the system. This might be why you're having issues on your MacBook Pro.

I'm using it on both Windows and Linux regularly, and I can’t tell a difference. It’s a web app running in electron, after all.

This reads like a journalist with no tech knowledge heard a drunk engineer ramble about the M1 emulation extensions over a beer and then wrote down what he could remember.

The US failed to update its democratic system for the modern times, so it slowly failed. So slowly in fact that the people there only start to realize this now, decades after it happened.

UIs have specific needs. They not only should look nice, but also be practical. For example, macOS now hides scrollbars by default. It makes the screen look nicer, but I've made a lot of mistakes by not recognizing that a certain view was scrollable, so I was missing content I didn’t know existed.

Ive has no idea about this. He went straight to nicely looking designs with no regards to practicalities. He also got rid of UI control borders, making them blur together with the background. This is an accessibility nightmare.

They added accessibility options to bring back both scrollbars and control borders, but they made the UI look like garbage, because they just didn’t care.

It also marked the downfall of UI design at Apple, when they let an industrial designer with no knowledge of the field create a new design language for iOS and macOS.

We had a support request at work where somebody complained that our web app stopped working for them. Turns out that they had a ten year old Chromebook that ran an ancient version of Chrome that simply couldn’t handle the ES syntax we were using in the new version of the app (the ?. operator), and there were no updates any more.

That's not obvious code: https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581402212319666176

They use GPL code for Copilot, which strips the license and just leaves the code to be used for whatever you want.

Yeah, my company moved to remote-only when the lockdowns started, and now we hired so many people that we can’t afford an office that would fit.