Now that IE is dead and most of the cross-platform implementation differences have been fixed, you are generally better off with vanilla JS instead of jQuery.
Divide the amount of revenue from the big AI companies by the total number of developers worldwide and you'll see that most are still mostly hand-coding despite what the megaphones on the internet say.
The overwhelming majority AI spend is being done by startups funded by venture capital.
Meanwhile, big companies have massively cut/capped AI spending at the exact time these companies need to triple prices to get any margins at all.
Perhaps dead internet theory applies more than normal to programming forums.
It's a mixed bag. The company I work for (nearly $6 billion anual revenue, southern EU) only started giving out the lowest tier of Github Copilot licenses this summer, and only widely at the business units they're desperate to see grow (I got lucky there due to wearing multiple hats). Everyone else keeps coding manually, although the nerdiest of us catch up with Codex/Claude/whatever on our own time, same as it ever was.
Meanwhile, a friend at a consulting company of similar scale tells me they don't hire anyone who shows a lack of experience with "agentic engineering" during the interview. They're turning all their projects into software factories from issue ticket to deployment. He's much more resourceful and experienced than me so I trust he isn't automating himself out of his own job, but I'm much more gloomy about this transition.
The whole reason for switching from server-side to SPAs and frameworks was increasing responsiveness for users, better transitions, and allowing optimistic updating.
All of these thing still matter no matter what you are coding with.
You could make the same argument for these LLMs years ago but there's a reason that they've become faster and more accurate at beating these games. GPT 5.5 took 218 hours to beat Pokemon Fire Red; Astra took 21.
Only months ago did these LLMs make it past the Victory Road boulder puzzle without harness assistance.
I would be willing to bet it can beat games un-released at training time as long as latency is not a requirement, which does limit the game types a bit.
The AI has trained on the entire factorio wiki along with every tutorial video ever made and who knows what else. I don’t see room for hidden anything in that scenario.
Why risk a sure thing? You might have others quit or get rid of someone more important than you thought. The morale hit might affect work quality. Any number of things can go wrong and its simply not worth it when you make $600k in profit per person.
States like Florida cap out at $275/week with a maximum of $3,300 (over just 12 weeks). McDonalds pays around $16/hr according to indeed. Unemployment almost might as well not exist.
IIRC "you" was also the formal second person pronoun (like usted in Spanish or vous in French).
I think it's all just normal evolution of language. I actually think it's kinda neat how different English-speaking subcultures found different ways to reintroduce the pronoun.
"I think it's all just normal evolution of language."
The normal way for languages to evolve is for words to spread into different (adjacent) forms in order to express more nuances of their original meaning(s). The collapse of words' meanings, and for basic things as (nominative case) pronouns no less, like it happened in English for "thou" and "you", is not fitting the definition of "normal" in the larger context of linguistics domain.
Beware! Y’all doesn’t necessarily include everyone:
> All y'all is used in the Southern United States when a speaker wishes to include everyone being addressed. Y'all may refer to an indefinite set of members of a group, but all y'all definitively includes everyone in the group.
I just asked my SO and she confirmed that "all y'all" means everyone within earshot and "y'all" usually means a specific group of people. She also said "y'all" is similar to "on" in French and "youse guys" in the NE.
This fits right alongside product asking how much work is it to move any button somewhere else in the UI. It depends which button, where it starts and where it ends, and even which app we're talking about.
Old work is always harder than new work. It varies by how your home is designed. It varies by where your panel is located and where your garage is located. You will pay a premium for the extra time and pain in the butt it causes.
As a great example, my friend asked for assistance with their home's street light not working. Long story short is that they ran a UF (underground feed) line directly under her concrete driveway (the contractor was too cheap to run it in conduit). I megged that line and it had a short. Their light stays off because rerouting through their house then digging up their yard isn't something they want to do (don't want to pay as I don't have that much free time and they don't want the massive headache it would cause). I was able to disconnect/wire off the failed part of the circuit so everything else works for them, so that's a win (and I didn't charge, so that was a win for them too I guess).
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