What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)? Version 26.325.31654 (1272) What subscription do you have? Plus What platform is your computer? Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm What...
I’m missing artisanal, carefully crafted software from before LLM times.
Microsoft Teams, Eclipse, Elastic, Lotus Notes even, and every website, well-thought and carefully optimized, taking its 30 second to load carefully picked handcrafted ads with broken CSS and color palette causing epileptic seizures. But sure.
Software has been horrible for the last 20 years.
Photoshop slop was replaced by AI slop. LLMs have replaced software bootcamps.
Here’s Tom with the weather.
“Can you make me download 150 MBs of .js files before I can read a single text-based article please?” - Software connoisseurs before AIs bloated everything
I’m missing artisanal, carefully crafted software from before LLM times. Microsoft Teams, Eclipse, Elastic, Lotus Notes even, and every website, well-thought and carefully optimized, taking its 30 second to load carefully picked handcrafted ads with broken CSS and color palette causing epileptic seizures. But sure.
Software has been horrible for the last 20 years. Photoshop slop was replaced by AI slop. LLMs have replaced software bootcamps.
Here’s Tom with the weather.
“Can you make me download 150 MBs of .js files before I can read a single text-based article please?” - Software connoisseurs before AIs bloated everything