As someone without strong feelings on Linux vs Windows (I've used and developed on both about equally): this kind of news, along the way Windows has been changing has me wondering if I should change my primary desktop environment at home to Linux.

In my eyes, Windows used to be the desktop environment that "just works and can run almost everything". Lately it's becoming enshittified, with weird bugs showing up more and more frequently (a memorable one is not being able to launch Notepad from the start menu!!). I think Microsoft is losing its best attributes when it comes to consumer software. Linux may not be perfect but it's looking more and more attractive in comparison, even with its imperfections.

That's true, but I don't know if this one was ever a good measure in the first place.

People use AI differently and they can be equally productive with a variety of token usage quantities.

Also, different kinds of work are differently amenable to using AI.

Measuring tokens used can absolutely be useful; tracking things like cost, compute-demand, usage to negotiate a better contract, and on and on.

Using it to grade people is, err, rather unwise.

I think we've found an extension of Goodhart's law- it makes bad measures even worse.

> The old open-source bargain had a positive feedback loop. You pick Python because it’s easy. You find a bug in a dependency. You fix it.

> Agents broke that loop in a specific way: the unit of contribution shifted from the patch to the port.

What does this even mean? Every time there's a bug we port the whole code to a different language instead of patching it? This sounds like absolute nonsense, and makes me wonder whether a human actually wrote this.

Thicc floppy disk.

The "Oomerd" button is probably the debugger by the sound of it?

It got to the point where people were sarcastically posting "An update on <myself>" when sending goodbye emails.

$1000 budget doesn't mean you spend $1000 if you use nothing.

If you type 2 asterisks it's rendered as one, it's an escape character mechanism:

This text has one asterisk on each side

*This one has two on each side*

Obvious now

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

AGI - Ad-generated income.

> It's not even possible to pass too few arguments to a function in C unless you go out of your way to write bad code.

This article is exclusively about undefined behaviour. "Bad code" is already baked into the assumptions of the article.