This is entirely typical of especially VB scripts. When I was a software engineer for a Fortune-20 company, I spent more time debugging (and trying to normalize, though that met with mixed levels of resistance) VB applets than anything else.
The initial roll out for Industrial Annihilation was really janky. With Planetary Annihilation, they did the Kickstarter thing and it worked pretty well (if I recall correctly, it was the highest grossing Kickstarter of all time at that point). With Industrial Annihilation, they revealed it as an investment platform for wealthy stockholders. Absolutely no options for people who wanted to support it but were either not ridiculously wealthy or just didn't want to own stock in the company.
A rushed product pushed out before it's ready is a very small price to pay in the endless race for ever increasing profits. The tech companies who "really should know better" do know better. It just isn't something they care about or prioritize at all.
There is no issue with a company that someone's not gonna show up and say "Well of course they don't care about anything but profits" which in an environment where governments are systematically willing to backstop risky bets made with financial leverage, mostly means make whatever decisions align with the confidence or whims of the majority of an increasingly top-heavy pool of investment capital
I'm well aware and I agree. Systematically, this fundamentally means that no human being should extend any trust to any corporation in this economic environment, that no corporation can be trusted to build anything remotely resembling infrastructure (including any tool anyone will depend on for a period of time longer than one fiscal quarter). That no corporation can be trusted to keep any promise to anyone who is not a top-level investor
You are telling me, and I agree, that these large firms are dangerous animals that I can't reason with, that could decide to maul me at any time, and that my best bet is to limit my exposure to them as much as I can manage, moreso the larger they are. This means that it is in the interest of everyone who isn't themselves an oligarch to use every meager lever of power available to them to try to change this situation, up to and including killing these things when possible, because it is deeply difficult to avoid being under the power of these behemoths, and they do not and will never have your best interests in mind in any respect someone doesn't force them to
That's the logical conclusion of this thing people keep telling me is obvious as though that also means it's inevitable. But for some reason a lot of people who wanted to tell me how this all works seem either surprised or sometimes even hostile when I start talking about stuff like that
That said, the part they should "know better" about is that this use case makes no sense whatsoever for the technology as it actually works. I'd be really surprised if this kind of thing even positively impacted their stock valuation because it reeks of a flailing and incompetent vision for how to apply the technology. The most charitable I can be for a thing like this is to say "well they got caught up in the stupid hype and are just trying to throw an LLM into anything they can", which works for a lot of companies but not for one that's spent over a decade building world-class expertise and could be argued to have actually invented the specific underlying technology powering this hype wave. I get that the underlying motivation for any decision made by a company is that they think they will profit from it. This is tautological. I am saying that even from that perspective, this is conspicuously stupid in a way that only seems like it can inspire investor confidence if investors continue to buy hype that seems decreasingly tethered to reality
In my experience at $OLDJOB, working under Scrum, there were two types of user stories that came in. The first would be issues from the QA team that absolutely had to be fixed. The other were commands from On High that absolutely had to be implemented.
Not much room for compromise (from the story, at least) in either case.
Honestly, my first thought was that this might be the kick of the pants the general Linux community needs to close ranks and actually solve some of the longstanding usability issues it faces (amongst the general populace).
I actually went in the opposite direction. I replace notepad.exe with AkelPad[0], which perfectly satisfies all of my basic-text-editing needs.
If I have to do anything more complex, Neovim is the end-all-be-all.
