Back in 1978 Brian Kernighan wrote, in the book "The Elements of Programming Style" that he co-wrote with P.J. Plauger:

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"

Now, in the age of LLM, the question becomes "If you wrote it by using AI, how will anyone ever debug it?".

RE: https://dice.camp/@johnzajac/115845954658479816

I spent a lot of time in the 90s working on Y2K. It wasn't a huge panic. It was just a slice out of everything else we spent auditing code. It wasn't "spend 80 hours a week fixing this." It was just boring. Incredibly boring. And we made it be ok by being bored and fixing stuff.

And the one thing I never thought would happen was that people would say it was never a problem. Oh good grief, it was a problem. All over. We just fixed it. Like we thought grownups should do when there's a problem.

Update on my pthread_cancel post. I used the condition variables wrongly, as pointed out by @mikecrowe (thanks!).

https://eissing.org/icing/posts/pthread_cancel/