The fact that people assign any weight to that information is the mistake.

I truly believe that people claiming huge productivity gains from AI are either terribly slow programmers or are skipping their due diligence. Many "vibe coders" are incapable of checking the output of the code.

That bit of justification seems absolutely bananas to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

easier said then done -- the kernel's internal interfaces aren't static, they change often. The project has never committed to stabilizing it's driver api, so every driver takes non-zero work to maintain.

I would assume computers that are still running these old ISA mouses (mice?) probably are also running an older version of linux; and if they're running a new kernel then it'll be somebodys job to port the drivers forward. There's some likelihood this will end up maintained by someone out-of-tree, which is a nice way of saying "we've sent your dog to a farm upstate..."

Right up until you need to do something you can't plagiarize

> if applied correctly will help humanity.

It isn't and won't be. Its entire purpose is to plagiarize artists, writers, and programmers, and to slowly whittle away those professions as viable. When there are no engineers left, we'll go back to sticks and stones I guess.