I don't think that's true. This is what the author wants. Or rather, demands: > Why doesn’t Android Studio / Gradle / Whatever just go “Mate – you’ve used comp

I don't think that's true. This is what the author wants. Or rather, demands: > Why doesn’t Android Studio / Gradle / Whatever just go “Mate – you’ve used compile here – that won’t work. Want me to automatically update the syntax? It’ll probably be fine.” But the machine can't make the decision, since it doesn't know the intent. The informed human in charge of the project does. What if there's automation, and tool ends up making the wrong decision? I bet that the author would be complaining about that instead. Reading the Twitter threads that the author links to are quite illuminating, and it's surprising to me he feels it's showing him in a good light. It's an amazing display of both entitlement and intentional ignorance.