Note that a lot of people also still work in C.

I wish app review checked for this. It's hostile anti user behavior.

They only did that to employees who performed an occupation of some cloud exec offices. That's not quite the same as signing a petition and equating them is silly. I'm not trying to justify what happened, but I can at least appreciate why that might cross a line too far.

That was about 10 of the 50 fired. I know multiple people who were fired in a completely different office simply for standing near a sign.

Humans are complex and have multiple sources of motivation. You don't know whether he took the offer with the highest pay. He's likely wealthy enough that he can pay less attention to his income and focus on his other sources of motivation if he wants to. That's not to say pay is not a factor in his choice, but it need not be the only or primary one. This is a luxury of the privileged for sure, which can make it difficult to relate to.

No single person other than Sam Altman can stop them from using anonymized interactions for training and metrics. At least in the consumer tiers.

I really prefer the design of run0.

Git makes certain workflows more difficult than they could be. Using a different tool that makes you feel more productive is generally nice.

This is a very head in the sand approach to life that only those who are entitled may partake in. Reality is that most cannot live in ignorance of what is happening around them because it is also happening to them. Obviously not everything needs to remind you of stressful reality, but we also shouldn't avoid reality just because we are privileged enough to do so.

Even if you're not authoring changes as much, change management is likely still to be a very useful activity for a long while. Also note that not everyone is using AI today, and many that do only use it as glorified auto complete. It will take many more years for it's adoption to put us in a situation like your describing, why halt progress in the meantime? My personal productivity increased greatly by switching to jj, perhaps more than adding Gemini CLI to my workflow. I can more confidently work on several changes in parallel while waiting on things like code review. This was possible before but rebasing it and dealing with merge conflicts tended to limit me from doing it beyond a handful of commits. Now I can have 20+ outstanding commits (largely with no interdependencies) and not feel like I'm paying much management overhead while doing so. I can also get them reviewed in parallel more easily.

Even breaking changes in a library can cause massive pain. AI constantly wants to the use the old pattern it was trained on. Up until a few months ago it would always prefer using the 2021 edition of rust rather than 2024 for instance. Overall though I don't think this is insurmountable, but it definitely adds an impediment which will overall motivate people to do things non optimally for the foreseeable future. Luckily, not everyone is bound by AI today. I just write my own commits messages instead of letting the AI do it. jj is popular enough that I'm sure it'll learn how to use it in the next year (especially Gemini because Google is using jj internally and would probably train it on it as a result)