DSpinellis

Same here. I used to hit back LLMs with refactoring ideas and prompts to use better APIs or reduce duplication / increase abstraction. Ever more they're doing such things without being asked.

We stopped learning how to calculate the square root with pencil and paper (I learned that; never used it).

There has been a dramatic shift in the role of agriculture in the US economy. As a share of it, in 1820 72% of workers were in agriculture, in 2017 this had shrunk to 1.6%. Tractors played a big role in this transition.

Given that AI-generated code is not 100% perfect, we need to take into account the time and cost of reviewing when we discuss the productivity boost AI developers receive from code.

I convinced a software company to use a version control system (RCS on shared disk) back in 1993. To make it work we had to setup a network — Ethernet over (thin) coaxial cable at the time. This was so new to us that we didn't know we needed to use terminators on the two cable ends.

I don't think the concept of a rebase existed before Bitbucker and Git.

30 years ago (1995) open source offerings: mostly CVS for large projects and RCS for smaller ones. On the proprietary side, the aged SCCS was available and used, while Perforce and Microsoft Visual Source Safe were being launched.