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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That certainly is an interesting take. I never thought about it this way

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.