"With AI, I can replace 20 software engineers with 1 'prompt engineer'"

A few months later: "plain text editor that was rewritten by AI to be more than that with RCE vulnerability".

(but congratulations to Microsoft for managing to put a remote execution vuln in something that should never have anything 'remote', like notepad)

@kkarhan @marado unfortunately, yes; they're not moving because they're too busy making excuses to stay
@kkarhan @marado sticking with Windows or macOS trough all the bullshit is more like staying in an abusive relationship
@kkarhan @marado

This applies more to software than people, but fundamentally, most humans find change scarry, and find comfort in familiarity. And after decades of Windows being the default choice, often the only one people knew of, to the point computers running Windows was as much a fact of life as the sky being blue, now they're struggling with the idea of change more than anything. Deep down they know the windows ship is beyond fucked and waiting to blow up, but they don't want to accept that and keep making up excuses to stay, and as time goes on and those excuses are proven wrong, pride also becomes a factor where ditching the burning ship also means admitting you were wrong before and every psychologist can tell you there's nothing the human brain hates doing more than that, and I'm sure you've observed that second mechanism with Trump voters.

tl;dr: humans are still just monkeys
@kkarhan @marado but getting to those first few minutes is an uphill battle with themselves for many
@kkarhan @marado ok but that assumes human psychology is self-consistent, which it isn't. It's not uncommon for people to be open about certain kinds of beliefs but completely stuck in their ways about other kinds of beliefs. And unfortunately, the less tech literate someone is, the more stuck in their ways they tend to be (and someone who still hasn't given OSes other than Windows a try is probably someone who didn't pay much attention to their computer classes in school)