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Cake day: July 25th, 2025

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  • If we go by personal experience, we recently had the time of several people wasted troubleshooting an issue for a very well known commercial Java app server. The AI overview hallucinated a fake system property for addressing an issue we had.

    The person that proposed the change neglected to mention they got it from AI until someone noticed the setting did not appear anywhere in the official system properties documented by the vendor. Now their personal reputation is that they should not be trusted and they seem lazy on top of it because they could not use their eyes to read a one page document.










  • … Software no longer needs to be preserved. Systems will be created, tested and discarded naturally.

    By far the dumbest word vomit take on software I’ve seen in a while. Who wouldn’t want to have tax systems and critical infrastructure being treated like slop with no accountability, and many rewrites because “software is no longer scarce”…