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New comment by aledem in "Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time"

aledem — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:51:17 +0000

Generally in every big corporation I worked any request to work on something outside of directly writing code to the company's codebase was answered by the direct manager with "Do it in your free time", even if the justification was provided. In a profit oriented environment only immediate value is considered worth pursuing. The attitude is pretty parasitic and dictated by the constant race for higher efficiency and metrics, which comes from the very top.

New comment by aledem in "Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems"

aledem — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:45:08 +0000

Second that, because, moreover, strictly speaking, none of the technologies existing today is AI. So continuing marketing terms as they are today, all mentioned are totally AI.

New comment by aledem in "The Emacsification of Software"

aledem — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:34:25 +0000

I remember how just 5 years ago the majority of speakers were saying how absolutely everyone should learn computer programming. Already many years ago VBA was built to bridge the gap between engineers and other professions. Well, the gap is completely closed now, everyone can do what has been talked about for decades: programming computers. And I suspect even markdown will become obsolete very soon, eliminating this very last remnant of what programming used to be.