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E16 was the height of cool when it came out. I would have people see my desktop and wonder what the hell I was running.

You're right that this is going to suck for the engineers who fit the stereotype, didn't like interacting with users, and would express that they just want to stay in the code.

For the rest of us, that's not a problem.

A new one will erupt eventually.

As someone who spends way too much time on reddit, before that I was someone who spent way too much time on twitter. And before that it was usenet.

Each time there may have been a rough patch when I didn't have a ready replacement, but eventually something grew to take its place in my heart.

yeah every single time I hear someone brag about fully automating their job I wonder, "what do they need you for, then?"

One thing I've spotted several times throughout this year: the larger volume of code leads to exactly the sort of problems it always has. It just happens real fast now, with fewer people. Problems that used to take years to erupt now manifest before an MVP ships, but people just sweep it all under the rug in the name of moving fast.

DevOps was a reasonable idea, but it rarely actually manifested. If a company had an actual "DevOps group" separate from the developers, by definition they weren't doing DevOps.

Indeed. Just think about how much people meme here "in mice" when stuff gets posted. There's a very long process between computational screening and getting an actual drug into actual humans.

This made me realize I have an inconsistency I never noticed.

I would never use a case with a phone of any sort. I don't like the extra bulk, and the friction they add is annoying.

Meanwhile I never use a tablet or kindle device without a cover.

There's an obvious gap where the iPhone mini used to be. Please fill that gap Apple!

I've seen asshats at concerts holding their iPads up to record. Bad enough when people hold their phones up, but this was next level.

The main page was such obvious AI slop that I didn't bother looking further

It's not the fault of the researchers that the general media misinterprets studies like this. Maybe we should instead cast blame on the semi-scientifically-literate people who push attention grabbing headlines regarding promising, but yet far from actionable, study results.

I don't think it lasted long. I remember finding it annoying as the whole concept of NFTs was eye rollingly stupid. At least some of the other topics have had merit.

I joined HN around the time category theory was starting to take off so not sure what the topic du jour was before that.

Well, a couple of years before that it was all NFTs all the time. Then before that it was web3. Then before that it was the blockchain in general. And then before that it was Haskell and monads.

That's just how it goes.