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wow, very humbling. I'm actually amazed how many people contributed to this. It's easy to get attribution for "cool new features", but arguable removing bad fea
by twothreeone 4mo ago
wow, very humbling. I'm actually amazed how many people contributed to this. It's easy to get attribution for "cool new features", but arguable removing bad features is even more important for something as fundamental as the kernel. Cudos!
I'm sure these are the sorts of things that will go down as folklore from the "founding ages", when everyone will have forgotten how to understand source code in 50 years and the Claude/Codex cruft just silently keeps piling on and burning the majority of our planets energy.
- skywal_l 4mo agoReminds me of Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge) where a guy maintains a ship by doing software archeology. He is the only guy who knows what the Unix epoch is.
- needusername 3mo agoDoesn‘t he hack the ship and confuse the Unix epoch with the moon landing?
- nuc1e0n 4mo agoI'm of the opinion AI slop code will become untenable way before that.
- bigstrat2003 4mo agoI'm of the opinion it already is. But it seems that many people have yet to reach the point of being fed up with it.
- zaik 4mo ago> everyone will have forgotten how to understand source code in 50 years I don't think this will happen. Human desire to understand how things work will still be around in 50 years.