Curious how it would track more ide things like a refactor to method command rather than cut and paste. I can understand not tracking paste as you don't really know where it came from, but rtm is using the same code just moving it for you.

This does make more sense to some of the big claims "95% of our code is ai generated" though. By the logic here a lot of my code would be considered generated for years. ide auto complete on variables, functions, closing brackets, class names etc. Lines changes by linters and formatters to add so much as a comma are not mine anymore. Add in refactoring and my use of ide templates and framework generators to make common files and increasingly small amounts would be considered my written code.

> as you don't really know where it came from

Then it should at _least_ be maintaining a third “unknown” category, but then they'd have to acknowledge (to the management, no less!) that they don't know as much as they're claiming.

Don't be silly, they don't expect you to ask the Ai questions and get the right answers. Obviously if you want to know what's going on you should look at their first solution - check what advice they have posted on X...

Someone call the Olympics because this is the largest jump I've ever seen.

I feel like a UK windows keyboard and a Mac has some oddities like this. I've got a zsa split keyboard and still haven't worked out how to have punctuation the same in Mac and windows. @ and " are always flipped and I had to add additional buttons to ensure I have a | and ~ keys because who knows where the Mac thinks they are.

My colleague update his Mac a while back and I commented on the wild difference in corners between finder and word from across the room. I had to walk round and physically point at them for him to know what I was on about, and then he says "oh yeah, guess they are a bit different"

To my designers eye it was the first thing I saw, to him it was nothing.

I still think it's bad and a sign of a change in apple focus/style, but it's clearly not an issue at all for a lot of people.

Said colleague did get cross when he struggled to resize a window though. Turns out inconsistent corners means inconsistent handles. And that is a real problem.

The more people you have the more processes you need. With 5 people the same person usually does the same things or they've seen the person who usually does it do it. So they do it in the same way, know the tricks or who to ask if it goes wrong. Your working environment is usually small, communication fluid, so people just know what goes on and how it works.

As you get larger you see what you're seeing - not everyone is in on the meetings, knowledge in one person's head isn't shared and people don't know who to ask.

I worked on a simple barcode database setup years ago. Originally it was just a spreadsheet one person 'owned'. Then I made it into a webapp that I and original owner could both add items to - enforcing unique entries and validating checksums (plus an API I could querry). More process, but still a lot was in our heads. When a 3rd person started using it, they added something in lower-case (we always wrote refs in caps) and a variety of case sensitive bugs were found. I had to fix the DB manually and started adding hints and validation.

The more people you have using something the more problems you will have and the less feasible it is to walk everyone through the system in person!

Documentation, make process, make efforts to share knowledge. No way around it.

What's the best car? If you're trying to go fast it's one answer, if you're trying to carry as much load as possible it's another, if you're buying for your just-qualifed-teen it's another. But best is obviously subjective, so what about safest? I don't know specifics there, but if you're in the EU the "safest" car would be very different to the "safest" in the US, because their safety studies measure very different things.

Which is the issue with almost all studies and statistics, what it means depends entirely on what you're measuring.

I can program very very fast if I only consider the happy path, hard code everything and don't bother with things like writing tests defining types or worrying about performance under expected scale. It's all much faster right up until the point it isn't - and then it's much slower. Ai isn't quite so obviously bad, but it can still hide short term gains into long term problems which is what studies tend to focus on as the short term doesn't usually require a study to observe.

I think Ai is similar to outsourcing staff to cheeper counties, replacing ingredients with cheaper alternatives and other MBA style ideas. It's almost always instantly beneficial, but the long term issues are harder to predict, and can have far more varied outcomes dependent on weird specifics of the business.

Some kids near me had fun throwing rocks from a bridge above the motorway. Someone's windshield got smashed, but hey the kids had fun!

But the AI has the work to derive from already. I just went to Gemini and said "make me a picture of a cartoon plumber for a game design". Based on your logic the image it made me of a tubby character with a red cap, blue dungarees, red top and a big bushy mustache is not a derivative work...

(interestingly asking it to make him some friends it gave me more 'original' ideas, but asking it to give him a brother and I can hear the big N's lawyers writing a letter already...)

I think I'd put a phone CPU running netbook-like costing $599 still in the "overpriced premium brand" bucket myself.

(Not sure if that's really an apt description though, but then I was out as soon as I read they're neutering one of the usb-c speeds.)

So long as you can use the slow port for charging, I think it’s an entirely tolerable trade-off. Remember, this is a machine for people with low technical requirements. It’s not a machine for someone who needs lots of high speed ports.