Armin Ronacher capturing the moment in tech right now.

It takes you a minute of prompting and waiting a few minutes for code to come out of it. But actually honestly reviewing a pull request takes many times longer than that. The asymmetry is completely brutal. Shooting up bad code is rude because you completely disregard the time of the maintainer. But everybody else is also creating AI-generated code, but maybe they passed the bar of it being good. So how can you possibly tell as a maintainer when it all looks the same? And as the person writing the issue or the PR, you felt good about it. Yet what you get back is frustration and rejection.

There are entire companies who are making a living of supplying you with the tools needed to deal with your dependency mess. In the name of security, we're pushed to having dependencies and keeping them up to date, despite most of those dependencies being the primary source of security problems.

Seems like a classic “conflict of interest” problem if you think about it for more than five seconds.

Like a company that will sell you cigarettes, then also sell you a nicotine patch to get off them.

The goal of code in many ways should be to be written in a way that it does not need updates.

Let’s celebrate that!