AI is a tool. You can use it to make better software, or worse. In an ideal world we would use it to make better software; there’s enough bad software out there already.
Unfortunately, unfettered capitalism has few incentives to support that, and would rather we pushed out software faster with fewer people being paid less. Paying down tech debt has always been challenging.
And when the heavy subsidies of cloud AI come to an end? Plus the Macbook can do other tasks as well; presumably you need a computer anyway so should deduct the value of a computer for non-AI tasks from the cost.
Wow, totally ignores the one framework Microsoft developed that was actually a pleasure to use (WinForms). Avalon sucked IMO; it was just a continuation of the fever dream at the time of making everything XML (or XAML in that case). MFC sucked because it was C++. WinForms was that brief Window of “modern programming language with simple, elegant GUI framework”.
I know it’s not a popular opinion, and I am sure there were reasons Microsoft abandoned it, but that was a brief few years when I actually enjoyed building GUIs on Windows.
The pylance team has started exploring this, namely whether it makes sense to have an API for type checkers that is not the LSP, as language servers have a somewhat different goal in which type checking/inference is an enabling technology. This could allow multiple different language servers to be built on top of different type checkers (and the type checkers can run out-of-proc, so implementation languages can be different). https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/discussions/718...
Unfortunately, unfettered capitalism has few incentives to support that, and would rather we pushed out software faster with fewer people being paid less. Paying down tech debt has always been challenging.
So is the problem AI, or capitalism?