What if Z was X?

This thing looks like it can do okay on Q. It may be good at Z in the future!

Headline: “Thing does X!”

Meanwhile, at HQ: “The userbase hallucinated that they don’t want AI. Maybe we prompted them wrong?”

Every single line of code is a maintenance cost, a liability, a velocity cost, and a stability risk.

The software industry knows this. Even Bill Gates famously proclaimed it.

Yet we now allow “it generated so much code!!!” to be told as success stories. Fuck you Sam Altman, Microsoft, and Anthropic for damaging both my industry and its reputation.

Instead of waiting a few more years for Linux to reach the level of ease-of-use needed to overtake Windows, MS is being sporty by moving the goal closer.