ploumDec 2

Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this code should run till the end of the demonstration to that big customer.

Vibe coding : You are perfectly right. The code doesn’t run. Try this one. You are right, it deleted your hard disk, I’m sorry.

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@ploum Broderbund shipped software [probably a game] that would erase hard drives by accident. This was when hard drives were less common tho' and were probably like 12 megabytes.

Anyway I was impressed.
Dec 2 at 10:10pmWeb