The other day I ran a Windows XP virtual machine I'd created years ago as a blank "dev" box.
Windows of course gave me some awful message about how the hardware had changed so I could only use it for two days; that was expected. But I was really shocked when I opened up Sublime Text 2 and it wouldn't even load because it was out of date.
I've always known Sublime Text is commercial software but the fact by default this old thing I'd paid for wouldn't load made me feel somewhat betrayed.
Here's a very ironic thing about coding agents that explains their rising adoption:
say you hate coding agents but you work on a team that loves using them.
Eventually you'll find that the only collaborator on that team you trust is the coding agent because everyone else is just pushing code they got from the coding agent.
Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find.
Now? 🤷🏾♂️
Between the gamblers and the disappeared, there is almost no space left for the old model: the person who plants a tree knowing they'll never sit in its shade.
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