Is anyone hand-writing code anymore though in 2026? I don't think many people these days have to worry about "keeping up with all the React developments", because Claude/Codex handles all that now.
Yes. I can understand a backend engineer who wants to slap together a frontend just deferring the whole thing to LLMs but there are a lot of frontend engineers out there that care a lot about performance and the like who are absolutely keeping up with React developments, no matter whether the final code is LLM generated or not.
There's not really any way to make a website look exactly how you want it to look without manually fiddling with its HTML and CSS. I took the agent pill as soon as I could and never looked back, but it's truly much more work to ask the model to make small changes in natural language, observe, and iterate when you can just open the developer console and do it yourself. That said, I modify the site by hand only enough to get it into a state where I can dump it on an agent to finish up.
I handwrite plenty of code. I know what I want the thing to do, how I want it to behave, or how I want it to look; the LLM can't read my mind and doesn't get it all the way there.
To quote Mordin Solus: "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."
That's an accurate description of the status quo, but it's also a good example of massive inefficiencies in the EU.
FWIW, I'm not saying that I would expect the EU to do a better job than the Dutch government. Likely quite the opposite. But it's frustrating as passionate European... that these problems aren't tackled on a union level. You'd think that's their job? The EU will never compete if it stays a loose partnership of 27 countries, and if it can't even get France, Germany, and the Netherlands to work on this together instead of running 3 separate projects...
This is the equivalent of two competing startups getting an advantage over an enterprise, just at government scale. It's a good thing.
Two competing products emerge, they are battle tested, opinions form, reviews are conducted. At that point it's a much better time for a significantly larger organisation to create a more focused realistic plan based on learnings and outcomes.
Imagine the analysis paralysis that would set in if the EU tried it from scratch - years of requirements gathering, pilots, reports...
It's just the new term for "NPC" (like "My teacher is such an NPC"), meaning someone/something is bland or generic (like a non-playable character in a video game).
Just a random thought since it's related to popular terms/slang, I'm noticing that accusing someone of not employing "critical thinking" is becoming very common on social networks among those that probably/clearly does not even know what it means, not talking about you obviously. Personally I'm forcing myself to phrase that in some other way lately, I wonder if I'm the only one that noticed this trend.
At the time women were (and still are) underdogs in STEM, so it's no surprise your professor would want to highlight that. For all the rest of were aware, she really was a successful health-tech founder
You are missing the point. The praise of her was devoid of even a nod to the actual element of achievement.
I know this because this was the first time I heard of Holmes and obviously well before the downfall and the fact that the story jumps out from my memory is because of how weird that phrasing was.
