Also let’s not forget that Google’s app store fees are also 30%

I believe the term is democratization?

You’re telling me that salesforce CAN’T actually solve every problem in the world more simply and efficiently than just building a tool to fit the job??

The software industry has just abstracted every problem to the point of being unable to solve anything.

DNA/biometrics are the only secure future!

I joke, but there are those out there who don’t.

> A jury form given to jurors asks the panel to decide whether Meta or YouTube should have known their services posed a danger to children or if they were negligent in design.

From the evidence I’ve seen Meta especially seems like they were not only negligent but malicious with regard to their users in their design decisions.

To be fair MacOS (and all apple software) is so heavily optimized for their current hardware. It is unfortunate that Intel macs are left behind, but my 2019 intel mac was capital-S Struggling with macos already in 2022. The M-series was such a leap forward. It’s a server under my desk now.

Yeah, it apparently matters at least a little

This.

Maybe it's not the cheap hardware? I don't know?

But when you put the following assertions out there:

>Tahoe/iOS26 are still the most godawful buggy pieces of software Apple ever created

and

>It doesn't matter how much cheap hardware you throw at the unwashed masses

with the market data being what it is.

I guess I'm just saying those statements definitely go under the old Abe Lincoln admonition that at times "Both may be, but one MUST be, wrong."

I feel like this is a relatively hot take. Python has advantages beyond being easy to write. It's simple. It can do just about anything any other language can do. It's not the most performant on its own, but it's performant enough for 99% of use cases, and in the 1% you can write a new or use an existing C library instead. Its simplicity and ease of adoption make python very well represented in the training data.

If I ask an LLM or agentic AI to build something and don't specify what language to use, I'd wager that it'll choose python most of the time. Casual programmers like academics or students who ask ChatGPT to help them write a function to do X are likely to be using Python already.

I'm not a Python evangelist by any means but to suggest that AI is going to kill Python feels like a major stretch to me.

EDIT: when I say that Python can do anything any other language can do, that's with the adage in mind. Python is the second best language for every task.

> it's performant enough for 99% of use cases

My last two companies went all in on python and really regretted it. It's performance and concurrency primitives really hurt as you scale

Don't worry, I'm positive that we're only a few years out from realizing just how damaging both were/are.

I just hope we realize it before it's too late.

“Go now and die in what way seems best to you”