If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good’ol Goodhart’s law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

So does Java. /me runs

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn’t get widely adopted

It’s called “data chauffered”: instead of following the data, tell it where it needs to take you

And nothing of value was lost

A phrase that gains a completely different meaning once one notices that aella is attending.

I’d rather drop the religion from that list. Some religions propagate harmful ideas too and historically sided with fascists.

That certainly is an interesting take. I never thought about it this way

Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.

Switzerland requires “wet” signatures too

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show “impact”. At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.