1. Price tracking over time.

2. MPG tracking by brand -- I get about 1.5 MPG better with BP.

Lovely.

+1. One of my favorite quotes:

No one hates so bitterly as the lazy and poor contemplating the energetic and prosperous. --Dale Worley

> in, say, two years, we will be all writing and talking like this

Shoot me now.

> Shoot me now.

I'm sorry, I can't generate that because the request violates our content policies.

Quietly

If they can't justify why this is a bug, and why it's worth your time to fix this as opposed to something else, you should be able to revoke their permission to touch your backlog.

This is perfect.

Since AI makes it easier for incompetent people to look smart, AI can help us expose those people for what they are.

By checking the diffs carefully, you're showing how to use an LLM to add value instead of creating a 17000-line PR that nobody with any sense will read.

LLMs are really good at making it harder to ignore ignorant people, and you've demonstrated that you're NOT part of the problem.

This is right on the money. It's not that we have way more bad engineers than before; it's that the damage they do is out of all proportion to their numbers.

> I can't give them any sort of answer that makes sense ...

Pride of workmanship. For those who understand, no answer is needed. For those who don't, no answer will work.

Ha, many years back I had to write a template processor for some system configuration handling. Manager told me last guy did most of the work so test and wrap it up. I instead had to throw it out as it was so crappy, wrote much smaller code, with no dependency and really put soul in logging where it showed cleanly how tool is navigating all directories, picking placeholders and replacing with values and so on.

No one really cared but it satisfied me and make me really happy.