It even can be a feature if AI isn’t as good as the people they are replacing. For example, in the case of call centers/help lines, it might be more desirable to have a shitty system to discourage callers yet have plausible deniability…

I find I’m referencing Cory Doctorow a lot lately…

My experience is nowadays documentation is even going to go away, as the answer to fixing things is more and more going to be “get Claude to fix it”

It’ll do things like write a great helper function that it uses once but never again, maybe even writing a second copy of it the next time it would use it.

Holy shit! That exactly explains why I’ve seen so many duplicated functions lately. I brought it up to the dev responsible the first time I found one (git blame), and he was just like “oh haha I can remove one” like he wasn’t quite sure what I was talking about, now I realize he must’ve gotten on that AI train much earlier than I thought…

The Dreamcast VMUs, which doubled as tomigotchis or whatever

I’m also using codium, can you say what the problems with electron apps are? Other than some dependency issues I ran into (but I was on Arch so it was probably my fault), I don’t know about problems with electron.

My remembering of that line is “and one for the dame”, and I grew up in the deep south…strange