It’s not the first time a young man asks me: “Why does FOSS always say ‘no warranty’?” Obviously, I’m not expected to unpack the legalese of open source licenses, but I can explain the reason behind it. Today, a newbie, again. I paused, thinking how to make it clear this time. I’m not a tape recorder, I hate repeating the same thing over and over. Then suddenly, a voice hit the back of my head:
“Let me tell you a story. Save it for coffee break.”
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Some of us seems adamant about AI-argumented documents, yet totally avoiding the core spirit of the articles. What are afraid of? A machine replacing the some human skills or the vivid human thoughts within the content.
(The above text are 100% generated by human fingers on the fly)
Good questions. With AI coding backed by bountiful open source libraries, coding may no longer be be necessary soon. We are re-witnessing the era of obsoletion of typewriters, except this time the rock is smacking on our own toes.
People often worship tools to fix their own coding deficiency. The reason is simple, proficient coding skills require many years of training and a dose of genius. Modern coders, by proportion, are largely lacking both. And the industry in general is impatient, rewarding bad but fast coding.
Not sure if there is a conspiracy theory behind. By all means, X11 has been nearly 40 years since its birth from MIT, many things, both the network and underlining architectures, have seen significant changes.
Reading the comments letting me re-live my early years of being an engineer, in a hardcore Unix kernel company. For every line of code, there are more neys than yes, but we still have finish the code and push forward. Next time we shall bring beers and chips.