• Why AI is not useful for programming.  (Ordep)
  
  Because writing code was never the problem.  Anyone can write code if you don't care whether it works.  Even an AI.
  
  And even if it works, it is almost certain to make the overall system more complicated than the value it adds.  Keeping a complex system manageable as you add more features is the real battle.
  
  And AI is still at the stage of selling refrigerated tungsten cubes in its snack bar because one guy jokingly requested that.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Why do 80% or more of email startups fail?  (ForwardEmail)
  
  Because email already works.
  
  
  
• Building a working computer in MSPaint.  (GitHub)
  
  Uh...
  
  
  
• Why React is insane.  (mbrizic)
  
  This is literally the COMEFROM statement from Intercal.  Which was supposed to be a joke.
  
  
  
• Why Matt Mullenweg claimed WordPress belongs to him personally.  (The Verge)
  
  Because he's insane.
  
  
  
• Norway inflated the announced prizes of winners of its most recent lotto game.  (The Register)
  
  The agency in charge multiplied by 100 instead of dividing by the same amount.
  
  Oops.
  
  
  
• Potentially millions of pairs of Bluetooth headphones are hopelessly insecure.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  Oops again.
  
  

This information could save your life in an admittedly bizarre set of circumstances.

If you don't know the voice, that's A-chan, for years content director* at Hololive.  She left the company last year to help out with family matters, and now she's returning this Friday as an indie vtuber.

* Or something like that, it's as good a job title as any.

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