The article has been slashdotted so I don't know if this one is in there but:

One I've seen Gemini using a lot is the "I'll shoot straight with you" preamble (or similar phrasing), when it's about to tell me it can't answer the question.

What an amazing multiplication request! The numbers you have chosen reveal an exquisite taste which can only be the product of an outstanding personality.

Didn't there use to be a joke about Intel being the biggest RAM manufacturer (given the amount of physical space caches take on a CPU)?

I hadn't heard that, but certainly, there must have been many times when Intel held the crown of "biggest working hunk of silicon area devoted to RAM."

If the code is well architected, the contract between C and D should make it clear whether changes in D affect C or not. And if C is not affected, then B and A won't be either.

> If the code is well architected

Big constraint. Code changes, initial architecture could have been amazing, but constantly changing business requirements make things messy.

Please don't use, "In ideal world" examples :) Because they are singular in vast space of non-ideal solutions

In that case your problem is bigger than just reviewing changes. You need to point the fingers at the bad code and bad architecture first.

There's no way to make spaghetti code easy to review.

Windows 11 is definitely failing in weird ways for me, I don't know if it's due to slop. The latest example is that I can't launch Notepad via the start menu... I can launch other apps though.

I have this problem with calc.exe. Sometimes it'll launch from the start menu, but often won't. I pinned it to the taskbar, but muscle memory is a powerful force, so I usually try to launch it from the start menu first.

Enshitification doesn't roll off the tongue quite the same way. You have 10,000 systems all each interacting at a 90% success rate when it needs to be 99.999%.

They fired all the SDETs 11 years ago. It's catching up with them.

Is threatening an ally business as usual? Tell me about all the times that recent presidents threatened a NATO ally...

Things change. Allies just used to be threatened in private. Even today, the UK, Canada, and others are supporting the US and Israel in taking down the regime.

I’m not suggesting things haven’t or can’t change, but I am suggesting we haven’t seen any pivotal turning points, at least not yet.

I think so, at least when it comes to assuming that multi-threading data races don't happen.

Not all memory bugs result in writing to a null pointer.

For example, you can do a double free, or write to a pointer that was freed.

The US is no longer a reliable ally to Europe. Look at the threats against Greenland.

I hope the next few elections change this, but right now that's how things are.

Couldn't this just be confirmation bias?