Look, some code definitely falls into the realms of art. Fast inverse square fits that bill for me. But the vast majority of code simply isnt an artistic endeavour, its just code. And the vast majority of game coding isnt creating art, the game designers and artists create the art, the coders just make it a reality.

In a roundabout way, we may get more artistic indie games, as the artists can just get the robot to do the code to make their vision a reality, instead of needing to beg for coders. Flip side of that is that every half-baked hack can spin up their own derivative clone, and its near impossible to stand out from the sea of slop.

executives practice breathwork and put aside their electronic devices

Headspace for workers, retreats for executives. HR bullshit.

Its impossible to hand roll code at the same rate as an LLM. Which means that if you don’t use them, you better have a good explanation for your manager as to why you’re clearing far fewer features/tickets relative to your colleagues.

You can try the “But my quality is higher/defect rate is lower”, but that gap is shrinking, and it doesnt seem like game studios even care about that anyway.

We all still have the skills to write code, its just that the people who pay us don’t actually care about human written code, they care about getting the game/software written as fast as possible.

Yes, but:

Safety: for small stuff, really no safety concerns, and with the amount of recalls, not really any better.

Warrenty: when the price is half or less, easier to just buy 2.

So for larger more expensive items, local makes sense somewhat, but for small crap, better to just get from aliexpress.

Which is really annoying, because individually shipping every little trinket is crazy wasteful.

Annoyingly, in Aus, if you try to shop locally, youll find the stuff in Kmart et al. is all imported crap from aliexpress anyway. So you basically are paying a huge markup for the same garbage.

https://www.kmart.com.au/product/450ml-oil-spray-and-pour-bottle-43513765/

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mPwySZt

These are at least somewhat closely priced now, but the Kmart sprayer was double that price a few months back when I needed one. And its not just Kmart, every shop is the same, its all poor quality crap. So why not get the poor quality crap direct from the source at half the price, even with shipping. Its pretty fucked up.

The point of de-minimus (at least in Aus) is to ease the load on customs, so they don’t have to waste time and effort processing tax a few cents worth of tax on thousands of packages.

Getting rid of it will probably make the less reputable sellers (eBay) go back to marking everything as a gift.

I’m pretty sure notepad.exe is actually below the kernel. Its load bearing.

Garlic bread pls

In this case its his doctor being disgusting, but yes.