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All of this and more entered my mind the very moment I learned that Microsoft had acquired GitHub.

I was just thinking it sounds like a very ambitious, engaged, and intelligent 24 year old (a kid).

Ive been working in AI for about a year, and Ive been working as a web developer for about 20 years. It appears to me that everyone that thinks AI is going to handle development for companies (in the reasonably near future) are also folks who have never had high level engineering responsibilities for a single project for a multi-year period. That is, theyve never been exposed to the realities of how nuanced managing a software product is at a technical level. The bots can barely write code-bootcamp level scripts. Im not confident that we will see AI solving the kinds of (coding) problems that engineering leaders are handling over multi-quarter projects.

This comes off like a study being published that shows tobacco is harmful to the lungs.

As someone who has worked in startup environments for 20 years, its rather offensive that anyone in 2024 would claim that employees arent taking risks.

In todays salary brackets, one could be comfortably making 220k as a staff dev some huge healthcare/pharma tech firm. One may also feel the job is boring, soulless, and mostly uncomfortable. Then one may choose to work at an exciting AI startup for ~160k, and suddenly find themselves way happier, growing more, and engaged. One just took ~60k worth of risk right there, not to mention that it could be come $0 tomorrow, and one likely now has crap healthcare benefits, given the startup status.

That 60k could be a million dollars in ~15 years if invested wisely.

The hype train strikes yet again! In fellow consultancy circles, we were giving talks on exactly this back in '17 and '18, but the hype train was too strong then. It was even harder to convince this same crowd that SPAs are usually a bad idea, and emerging technology like Hotwire or LiveView would soon eclipse the SPA-obsessed culture. GraphQL is immensely powerful and useful for its exact use case, and extremely burdensome and expensive for any other use case. If you dont already know that use case, YAGNI. The same can be said for any hype train. The problem with any kind of hype train in tech is everyone looks for reasons to use whatever the new hyped thing is, rarely does anyone determine if the new hyped thing actually fits their use case(s). This will continue so long as there is a dichotomy of culture between youths and those with lengthy experience. We old people will continue to point out exactly why this or that is pure hype, and will continue to be drowned out by the emotions that come along with participating in hype.

This reads like a junior developer's first foray into the concept of the test pyramid. Congrats, author has learned that there is a forest beyond the trees.

I would guess for the same reason the government consistently buys $1000 hammers and $5000 toilet seats - to mask some military operation theyd rather not publicly report on.

Were pro-right-tool-for-the-job. The US Stock market is already a free-money generating machine. We need more money in the US Stock Market, not in B.S. toys for contrarian criminals.

contrarianism is a very powerful and often understated force within human culture

Well, we all know a Gemini cant be trusted ;-)

Blue LEDs are the bane of my light-sensitive eyes' existence, and it pains me so to know they almost never existed at all. I keep a PC repair kit with me, even though I dont have a desktop computer, because I need to take all of my electronics apart and take these stupid blue LEDs out of them.

The response to seeing 10k lines of code in a PR is not to skim it, that is harming one's company. The response is to request the author to justify its size, and/or reject the PR and request that it be delivered in smaller sizes. If the author cannot, then the author needs their responsibilities reduced and to receive additional mentorship.

Skimming a PR is pure cognitive dissonance, dont do this and complain when your app turns into a dumpster fire.

China makes war through deception and gaslighting, not through tanks and bombs. They declared war on the entire world more than two decades ago.

please, just stop with Python already