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Like those people who can't drive stick shift. What do they even do if they need to operate a real car?

> I really wish we could leave these types of decisions up to parents and parents only. Leave the companies and governments out of it.

If you'd like to advocate for this position for a living, the tobacco, alcohol, and gambling industries will all be happy to pay you.

It changes the cost of living context of the salary. So, a lot.

*learning opportunity. Damn autotype

Doesn't sound like AI is necessarily the root the problem. If he's not the person to test, iterate, and deliver quality with AI, he probably wouldn't be without it. You just figured it out sooner.

Or, if you have reason to believe he's got what it takes - treat it like an leaving opportunity, give him room to make mistakes. This is, ime, what a rookie AI user mistake looks like.

It is easy to get carried away by the momentum. Many have fallen into that trap, not all are irredeemably bad software engineers.

At Valve's scale, it becomes the publisher's problem. Which is, in this particular case, a good thing imo. I certainly don't mind the pressure on publishers to ensure basic compatibility with Linux

Good article, enjoyed it. I might give this idea a shot!

> Comments: these contain high level descriptions (faster than reading the code) and external context (the “why” that reading code can’t answer). This is the most scannable thing in any big code file.

Not sure about that one, depending on comment culture. Comments are prose and not structured, so to understand their meaning is a lot more cognitive load for me than (most) code. I certainly wouldn't have thought to call them "scannable".

Almost seems like they can do anything at monzo.com

Speak for yourself. It certainly isn't for me.

What are your even talking about, the case here is an internal api change with no change in behavior. It's called maintenance.

Yes, and at that time the answer was "move over where?" now it's 2026 and x-wing is a draft still

What can you recommend?

There is a whole section in the article about that