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The AI code takeover will not free engineers up to do craftsmanship. It will annihilate the last vestiges of craftsmanship forever.

> that doesn't mean they're not useful

yeah actually it does mean that

Neither. LLMs are destructive.

> We use AI-assisted responses as the first filter for email support.

Literally no one wants this. The entire purpose of contacting support is to get help from a human.

> I will completely forget why I wrote it that way.

This is the main reason for comments. The code can never tell you "why".

Code is inherently about "what" and "how". The "why" must be expressed in prose.

Multiple times daily I encounter sites that are brutally slow not just on my beefy Android phone, but on my 3GHz+ 8-core 64GB desktop machine.

You need to take performance seriously or it will just be bad. Most of the industry has chosen to be bad.

> React performance concerns in the real world are typically measured in, at worst, hundreds of milliseconds.

Many years ago I worked at a wonderful company that made the terrible decision to rebuild the frontend in React. We had a performance dashboard permanently displayed on a TV in the office, prominently showing the p99 time-to-interactive of our home page. It sat at TWENTY SECONDS for at least 2 years. No progress was ever made, to the best of my knowledge.

This was an e-commerce site, more or less. As per the author's reasoning, it absolutely should not have been an SPA.

It is often the case that the nifty Python thing you want to pass around uses one or more nifty Python libraries that have no C/C++/Rust/Golang equivalent (or no obvious equivalent), and so rewriting it becomes a herculean task.

It is funny reading the replies here.

I am a database specialist and have worn the DBA had for many years. I have run MySQL and Postgres in production, both self-hosted and using managed services. Postgres wins on every single dimension that matters, every time. Yes MySQL is easier to setup for non-experts. That counts for nothing.

If you are sticking up for MySQL in this thread... I just don't even know, man.

"Not as robust as MySQL"? Surely you're joking.

I am plausibly a person this is for.

Right now I rely on TabsOutliner when using Chrome (which I only use for work). It lets me keep 400+ tabs open and stay sane. I like it so much that I've paid for it 3 times, and would have paid a 4th time but it seems you can't anymore, and I fear it's abandoned.

In any case, this is how I work. I use browser tabs as a kind of short- to medium-term memory. I open a bunch of things, and keep them open for as long as I might plausibly need them. To me this is just normal. I don't know how anyone lives with only 10 or 20 tabs open, or a 50 tabs in a single window. How could you remember anything? But without TabsOutliner or something like it, this becomes a sprawling mess, because the browser gives you no native means to search it, or "zoom out".

Unfortunately TabsOutliner isn't available for Firefox, which I use when I have a choice. So seeing SavaOS promote Chrome... I lose a little interest right away. If it doesn't work in Firefox it's not worth getting excited about, because Chrome as a piece of software treats me like an enemy and I don't like that. So: support Firefox!

That said, if SavaOS gives me the capability to organize my tabs, maybe treat them like files I can put in directories etc etc, that sounds awesome and I want to try it. At the very least maybe it's better than TabsOutliner.

But seriously: Firefox!

This is true, and in principle a good thing, but in the time since Parquet and ORC were created GDPR and CCPA are things that have come to exist. Any format we build in that space, today, needs to support in-place record-level deletion.

My Zenfone 9 has a headphone jack. No SD card slot though, which I don't need.

So yeah, I voted for this position with my dollars, and will continue to do so.

Any phone with mandatory AI crap is Hard Pass.

it could have been much worse, I have seen passwords leaked this way

("seen" meaning "I worked at a company where this happened and read the code with my own eyes" not just "I read it in the newspaper")