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The continued death of easter eggs is sad. I get it for certain classes (or scales) of software, but I still think there's a place for easter eggs that are smal
by LocalH 1y ago
The continued death of easter eggs is sad. I get it for certain classes (or scales) of software, but I still think there's a place for easter eggs that are small enough to be vetted as clean and security-conscious. Nothing says security-first principles can't be applied to the implementation of an easter egg that is internally proposed through a formal process, and documented where necessary for the customers who would care.
The loss of easter eggs is the loss of part of the "charm" of computing. A loss of a reminder that (For now) software is produced by humans, with emotion and love for the craft. I suppose that's changing with LLM assistants and vibe coding. Who will be the first to prompt a coding LLM to include an easter egg? It's probably already happened.