no clout

(keep on disk, don't commit)

Don’t open time wasting PRs full stop and give oss maintainers a break is the better message to take home from this.

There's a very short list of people who can get away with "Classic Torvalds"

Frankly the originator of this pull request deserves the "classic Torvalds" treatment, no matter who is delivering it.

In fact, anyone can get away with it. What are they going to do, call the police because you called them a moron?

Consider the facts: (1) most open-source maintainers have a real job (2) an unwritten rule of corporate culture is "(appear) nice" (see all of the "corporate speak" memes about how "per my last email" means "fuck off") (3) these developers may eventually need a job at another company (4) their "moron" comment is going to live forever on the internet...

If you're famous enough for that to filter to the whoever is handling your resume, it anything it will be positive

Reminds me of Ace Rothstein wanting the exact same amount of blueberries in each muffin.

That's how all application-specific specializations work though, take advantage of domain properties that make you need a less generic algorithm.

I've never seen an IDE "mandated", I've seen officially supported development setups where you're on your own if you do anything different. Is that not the standard?

Your job will look pretty funny at you if you want to code everything by hand while everyone else is using VSCode.

I've literally never seen this and I've been around for awhile. There's always people with some bespoke vim or emacs setup while everyone else is just using Jetbrains or VSCode or whatever, and nobody cares at all as long as that person is getting their work done.

Still an IDE right?

When this bubble finally pops, someone is going to have to clean up all the nonsense AI code out there.

I'm gonna be pedantic, shouldn't it be "bottom-up" instead of "bottoms-up"?

Yes, I was chuckling at this as well. "Bottoms-up" makes it sound like they're drinking a lot on the job.

they might be

> #2 Software projects that somehow are 100% human developed will not be competitive with AI assisted or written projects. The only room for debate on that is an apocalypse level scenario where humans fail to continue producing semiconductors or electricity.

??

"AI" code generators are still mostly overhyped nonsense that generate incorrect code all the time.

> If one just chooses a reasonable documentclass and if need be a few packages suited to the requirements of one's document, then it all "just works" with (mostly) sensible defaults and minimal configuration.

Ironically, very similar to the story with modern C++. If you use a limited subset it can "just work" but only if you are disciplined and don't have to mix in legacy code that's pre-C++11.

look c++99 was a very cromulent c++ as well. oh lol just like the LaTeX story