What isn't true is that it completely dissolves. There are parts that don't and are part of the rescaffolding process. One of those bits that does not completely dissolve is a chunk of the brain; it is probably via this that memory persists through the metamorphosis.

Wing stubs are present from the beginning as well as you noted.

The thing is that I LIKE writing code. It's fun.

I don't LIKE coding with an LLM. It isn't fun.

We can't go back to a place where the professional code is all hand written. But at the same time I'm sad and tired. The joy has been utterly sapped and I don't think I'll be able to do this as a career for much longer.

It is all pretty subjective though. Windows is the best option for some.

I do think about this article though: https://www.rubenerd.au/the-myth-of-snow-leopard/

Obviously (to me anyway, maybe folk disagree) comparing a new release to the previous versions last release (with years of bugfixing) wasn't totally fair, but my experience with Snow Leopard wasn't great either and I wonder if it wasn't quite the peak everyone thinks of it as.

I think this is one of those cases where there is no objectively "right" opinion. Tailwind exists for a reason and got a market for a reason. That doesn't mean it is always used in the places it's most helpful or that people don't misuse it (or simply not understand the complexity beast that is CSS). That's just the nature of any popular tool

I have my own opinions about where it's useful and why, but they're just that; opinions.

It's okay for folk to think differently, that is pretty helpful.

Probably a combination of those plus factors we aren't privy to.

I don't really know how to take the measure of a man and probably I'm not qualified to. I don't think he was evil though. People are complicated and not at all black and white.

As for the why, it covers a class of issue that does come up; counting like items. Determining the frequency of things is pretty common. I run into variations on the problem a lot, even if word counting is a contrived example.

It also gives a good look at how someone might solve the "like" items - things like punctuation, casefolding, etc... - messing around with strings is something that happens all the time in the real world.

Also I might be tempted dock your shell solution for using cat unnecessarily

tr ' ' '\n' < textfile | sort | uniq -c | sort -r

Or even:

< textfile tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r