Because your clients used IE by default, relied on ActiveX controls, or were forced to by corporate IT policies.

Working man? You can replace them with agents!

Oh man I wish a publication would go with that future headline. "If AI agents were supposed to replace working people, will they be footing the bailout bill as well?" hmm maybe it's a bit too long for a headline.

Then you somehow still need to get rid of the working man, though...

Yes, lets turn everywhere into the shitty place we grew up in.

It is possible to grow in a pleasant way without mallification, seems like a lot of projecting. And it’s not like the current approach is preventing that; insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

NYC is a better place then you are a human.

Torturous metaphor that doesn't actually explain macros.

I'd posit that this is just as good as every programmer koan or story from esr's The New Hackers Dictionary

It reminds me of the "The Salvation of Doug" and its rebuttal "The Demise of Bill" that are often used to illustrate the differences in philosophy between genetics and biochemistry even when they are used to analyze the same system.

https://morphogenesis-aplab.weebly.com/beyond-the-bench/basi...

> If you're an unc with a background in Ruby or that era of webdev

"claude, run 'npm install' for me"

> The industry as a whole throws away orders of magnitude more engineering-years than that on vanity projects

The industry as a whole throws away orders of magnitude more engineering-years _daily_ in meetings discussing if scrum standups are effective.

find -print0...|xargs -0... works for me, and i don't always want to execute something and xargs can run parallel processes. i feel like this guy never bothered to read the man page.