Your Rollercoaster Tycoon example is a bit odd, since coding a whole game in assembly indicates deep understanding of what you’re doing, whereas the problem with vibe coding is that it requires only the shallowest understanding. Unless I’m misunderstanding and that was your point.
There may be a maintainability issue with both, but for a different reason in each case.
Seemingly just because the title has “PHP dev” in it. It’s not entirely fair.
Overregulation and underregulation are both problematic, so it’s not an easy thing to get right. But sometimes you get the impression a regulation is all agenda and very little thought (e.g. this one in California, and the FCC’s recent banning of foreign-made home routers).
I suspect it just indicates the excessive power of corporate lobbyists.
You can’t do full-disk encryption without the signed driver, and Microsoft is preventing them signing the driver for new releases. So Microsoft is making it impossible for them to publish updates for the Windows versions of their software.
Microslop, who bundle their OS with a competing encryption product that probably has government backdoors, “accidentally” shutting out open source encryption software. Nothing to see here. Perfectly legitimate business behavior.
Maybe we need a movement for fully hand-coded software, as both a political statement and a baseline of quality. I doubt it will even take longer to develop and maintain, once you count all the overheads of supervising AI.
Brazil has something similar. Other US states are working on it. And the UK, some EU countries, Australia and others are pushing for the same. This won’t be just California for long: it’s a worldwide push to make it impossible to do anything involving a computer without first disclosing your real identity to the authorities.
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/vpns/online-age-verification-a-complete-global-timeline
It wouldn’t be easy to ban desktop Linux without inadvertently banning Linux servers and IoT devices. So we should let them walk into this quagmire and get bogged down with an impossible task, instead of capitulating at the first opportunity.
It’s not easy, particularly if you developed it and have spent months immersed in all the detail. To emerge from that and imagine coming to it as a new user is pretty hard. I don’t have much to add but I like your advice. I need to rewrite the docs for one of my projects and I’ll be bearing your points in mind.
Maybe one other point I’d add is: have a clear idea of who you’re writing for, and have different levels and styles of documentation for different types of users. Don’t try to satisfy everyone in the same document. Divide the documentation up by intended readership.
And it will be a selling point of Windows 12 over Windows 11!
Or of Linux, presuming it has a decent driver…
Anyone actually trust this?
I just stuck a new battery in my laptop for its 9th birthday. Still going strong with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Time for a fork?
I’m feeling the need to go a little more purist about open source these days. Every closed-source program lets you down in the end.
It doesn’t say what they’re planning to do about laws requiring age verification. It says they’re forming a group to figure that out. The problem with bad legislation is you can’t just ignore it, so they need to at least work out an approach. In itself this news is neutral, but we’ll have to see what they decide.
That could be a helpful thing though, since it makes it easier to disguise your deliberate inefficiency among the other inefficiencies.
This very much seems to be an international push these days. It looks like there’s coordination going on between countries out of the public eye.
However, the device to which this is applied must meet the following criteria: it must have both Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot installed on the system; the Microsoft Copilot app wasn’t installed by the user; and the Microsoft Copilot app wasn’t launched in the past 28 days. This means that even though admins can now remove the Microsoft Copilot app, users would still have the Microsoft 365 Copilot app installed on their system. The former is the free app preinstalled on Windows 11, while the latter is a paid service included with a Microsoft 365 subscription.
It’s still quite a long way from “if you don’t like Copilot, just uninstall it.” They’ll let you install one Copilot app if you have another Copilot app installed, leaving you with one Copilot app.
Journalists might do better to report when Microsoft release a patch that isn’t full of catastrophic bugs.