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They say this was done with Codex and OpenCode.

I admit I'm behind the time with AI coding agents. Is it actually possible to do that effectively in such a short time? Or is this going to be riddled with sloppy bugs?

Could be worse. She could have got a Final Fantasy Cactuar tattoo.

There is also testing, but that is just to place thing in before promoting them to stable so has the same release cadence as stable.

Small point of clarification: Debian Testing is more fluid than Stable. While Stable will not receive any feature updates in its 2-year lifespan (only bug fixes and security patches), Testing does receive feature updates, up to the point where it is "frozen" for the final stages before release as the new Stable. Usually that happens a few months before release.

This is why Debian 13 "Trixie" has some packages that were released toward the end of Debian 12's lifecycle.

For example, Debian 13 Trixie was released in August 2025, and contains KDE Plasma 6.3, which was released in February 2025. It does not include Plasma 6.4, which was released in June 2025, because that was after the freeze.

So in practice, you can expect Debian stable to have feature releases that are ~0.5-2.5 years behind the latest, and Testing to be 0-6 months behind.

If you haven't seen, his testimony is hilarious. Clip here: https://youtu.be/0pvJmxe7LdE?t=1217

I was getting certificate errors for a few days, up to as recently as a few hours ago. Seems to be working now (obviously).

It doesn't need to be good to replace jobs, as long as there are no consequences for the people making those decisions.

I've lost count of how many "oops, it was AI's fault, not my fault!" stories I've heard, even within highly regulated fields. Like, lawyers submitting documents with completely fake citations, and then...no real consequences. Seems to me like that should be cause for immediate disbarment, but no, apparently not.

I almost started a little rant about Ignaz Semmelweis before I got the joke. :P

Everything bad people said about web apps 20+ years ago has proved true.

It's like, great, now we have consistent cross-platform software. But it's all bloated, slow, and only "consistent" with itself (if even). The world raced to the bottom, and here we are. Everything is bound to lowest-common-denominator tech. Everything has all the disadvantages of client-server architecture even when it all runs (or should run) locally.

It is completely fucking insane how long I have to wait for lists to populate with data that could already be in memory.

But at least we're not stuck with Windows-only admin consoles anymore, so that's nice.

All the advances in hardware performance have been used to make it faster (more to the point, "cheaper") to develop software, not faster to run it.

For instance, a leaked 2009 Pepsi marketing presentation with language such as “The Pepsi DNA finds its origin in the dynamic of perimeter oscillations…our proposition is the establishment of a gravitational pull to shift from a transactional experience to an invitational expression …”

uhhh okay this is tough. how about:

Pepsi is known for waves (maybe lmao? i genuinely don’t know what perimeter oscillations is trying to say). We want to make people feel like buying Pepsi isn’t just buying something but is an invitation.

LOL that one's a mess.

"Perimeter oscillations" sounds to me like a way to describe shifts in consumer opinions and preferences. A really dumb way. But who knows? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of marketing execs?

I get the same feeling from corpo-speak as I get from bad poetry. Like the author runs all their ideas through a few rounds of mutations, out of fear of being seen as simple. The goal is not to be understood, but to make yourself harder to criticize.

I see a lot of "expletive deleted" and... "big pussy". The first was used as a joke in futurama. The second doesn't ring a bell.

Same experience here. Swype was the original and somehow after all these years still the best?! Or maybe I'm misremembering because my standards were lower back then.

GBoard is noticeably better then Heliboard. I still use Heliboard but it is frustrating sometimes, to the point where I wonder if I should just start typing with my thumbs instead. Might be faster on the whole, since I sometimes lose 5-10 seconds correcting the swipos.

I will start submitting gesture data ASAP. The keyboard world needs this.