jaredsohn

My understanding (just from chatting with Gemini) is you just need to visit reddit (logged in) within the past 6 mos and don't have to log out/in again or anything like that.

So basically, I probably have a bunch of accounts from years ago; suspect that all but my current one no longer work with old reddit.

Biggest annoyance for me would be on mobile where i wouldn't log in.

>The software industry is at a standstill

Citation needed.

I see software I am working on at work and personally improving tremendously thanks to AI in that it gets used to solve problems that we previously thought "would have been nice" but didn't have time for.

To give a concrete example - I see lots of improvements in tooling for the SDLC that previously maybe only existed in bigger tech companies.

I was thinking about this when I read a post about what would happen if all of a sudden AI stopped working.

I think we're building a lot of tools with AI that could have been useful without it; it was just hard to justify spending the time building it before in most situations.

Linear does this, too. It provides a button that copies a branch name to the clipboard based on the ticket id/name.

NDAs often get signed when you join a company.

Could probably ask the AI what changes they'd make to the email.

Right now.

AI makes it a lot easier; just say 'remove x feature'.

Or even just let me make a thread in github without associating it with files / a line of code. I hate it when conversations span top-level messages.

In today's AI times, I find it a little amusing to think about emojis as an automation of the craft of making ascii art. Is a little different since people don't get paid for that, but there was a creative component to it.

I completely agree that unverified claims create a heavy burden for maintainers. My only point was about the language used: 'disparaging' to me implies a bad-faith attack or a dismissive attitude, whereas this was just an honest technical mix-up that the poster immediately corrected.

I think part of the confusion with that word comes from things like corporate non-disparagement clauses. In those contracts, lawyers write the terms so broad that "disparagement" means saying anything negative, regardless of malice or intent.

FWIW, I don't think the GP post is disparaging (at least as I read it right now.)

I think it is fair to list limitations from using a library that provides an abstraction; it can suggest why a tool isn't right for a person's use cases.

But it also sounds like this API handles those pretty well.