The hype actually feels like some of the vintage marketing for BASIC.

“So simple, your boss can do it!”

It’s probably been like this every time we go “up” a level of abstraction. We’re still needed because complicated shit will always be complicated, and people who make decisions will always need an underling to blame.

You speak for yourself, I’m flying through this killer sudoku book…

Yeah, fully agree with all that.

I’ve got some godawful spaghetti code I don’t understand fully, and it’s pretty good at deciphering that and the bizarre labyrinth of code paths leading around it. But it’s absolutely no guarantee of working code, and in any project larger than a simple crud app, you are going to still need programmers who know about things like memory and databases.

It often needs pointing at a solution you want, because as you pointed out, it’s fond of dumb band-aids. Like yesterday when it was trying to hook into mouse wheel events and create separate threads, when all it needed was an event on the dataset I was using to load a sub-dataset.

Maybe we should fork an Enshittyfin and add these vital features.

A £70 roguelike is a big fucking ask.

The only one I’ve played, completed and enjoyed was Hades. It doesn’t waste your time even on a failed run. A run is like 40 minutes of real time. That’s about where this shit needs to be to attract non-masochists. Even then, £70.

I’ve got to be honest, the occasional glitch in Firefox Android is more than worth the price of not seeing the ads and consent banners that Chrome would have forced me to look at.

We don’t want them.

Can it also redact text from documents without allowing you to just copy and paste it back out again?

Asking for a friend.