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I guess the tendency is the problems shifting to higher levels, while for lower level or common problems things are getting more robust and better.

I agree, people are too nostalgic about old UIs. But I think modern UIs also invent square wheels, such as invisible scrollbars, too large margins, etc. For example, Windows 7 had the best UI (maybe needed a handful of small additions for year 2026, such as ability to scroll without focus). Later versions of Windows significantly degraded user experience. Windows 11 has somewhat improved look, but it's too bloated and inefficient (that famous desktop context menu opening in 2-3 seconds, jeez).

Architecture is still important for large systems. And there are tons of legacy systems with spaghetti code.

AI is starting to successfully decompile binaries, unless the binary isn't purposefully obfuscated, I guess it's almost "open source".

I've no experience living in Asian countries but asian cultures seem to be workaholic / ambitious and obedient. At least in South Korea many children's childhoods are ruined by insane educational pressure, lack of recovery time and sleep. In Korean culture, a child's success is directly linked to the family's social status. And I can only imagine the level of suffering among those children, let alone neurodivergent ones.

Japan seems to have a similar problem, although a less extreme version.

>> I never had an issue with ADHD growing up in Asia. Nobody friggin cares. It's only western people making a huge deal outta nothing.

Interesting, I thought that Asian countries are the most hostile countries towards neurodivergent people.

I think since LLMs make code generation cheaper, we are left with more complicated, often more socially demanding tasks. Programming is becoming even less "leave me alone and let me write code" (on average). This can lead to burnout for many people, but this exploitative capitalism doesn't care.

Yes, that was my point. Amputations are quite uncommon, they usually lead to death (blood loss / infection, starvation, vulnerability to predators, etc) For relatively intelligent species they are even more avoidable. Regeneration would add very little benefit from natural selection point of view. Most body parts are durable enough for survival and reproduction.

Exactly, limbs are quite large portion of the body, that's why many think salamanders would have no problems with regenerating all other smaller body parts. And that's not the case.

Regeneration is unlikely to warrant eternal life. In the wild, most animals die before even showing serious signs of aging. Even if regeneration increased lifespan, poorly adapted individuals would still die.

In theory yes, but it requires enough discipline and knowledge. A language that makes it harder to write bad code still has an advantage over a language that doesn't care about bad code.