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“Should developers still look at code?” will become one of the most divisive and heated debates over the coming years. You might be offended by the question, and find it absurd anyone is asking. But it’s a sincere question and the answer will change faster than you think.

I’m already seeing people divide along moralistic, personal identity lines as they try to answer it. Some declare themselves purist, AI sceptic, Real Developers who check every diff and hand-adjust specific lines, sneering at anyone reckless enough to let agents run free. While others lean into agentic maximalism, directing fleets from on high and pitying the mass of luddites still faffing about with manual edits like it’s 2019. Both camps mistake a contextual judgement for a personality trait and firm moral position.

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The US public was also fascinated and intrigued by the acts of penance chosen by the monks. Some monks, including Pannakara, opted to walk most of the journey in their bare feet or with nothing but socks. Pannakara’s feet were bound in thick bandages after being cut by stones and shards of glass.

The walk came with its fair share of obstacles. Two monks were injured in a traffic accident near Dayton, Texas, in November. One of the monks, Bhante Dam Phommasan, abbot of Wat Lao Buddha Khanti in Snellville, Georgia, had one of his legs amputated. Despite his injury, Phommasan joined the group of monks in January, receiving rapturous applause after completing the walk in a wheelchair.

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Aloka, a rescue dog that accompanied the monks throughout the entire pilgrimage, has become an overnight star. After suffering a knee injury, he had to receive surgery for a tear in his cranial cruciate ligament but still managed to complete the walk.

On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them.That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said.

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Ars Technica does not permit the publication of AI-generated material unless it is clearly labeled and presented for demonstration purposes. That rule is not optional, and it was not followed here.

Shit is getting bad out in the actual software economy. Cash registers that have to be rebooted twice a day. Inventory systems that randomly drop orders. Claims forms filled with clearly “AI”-sourced half-finished localisation strings. That’s just what I’ve heard from people around me this week. I see more and more every day.

And I know you all are seeing it as well.

We all know why. The gigantic, impossible to review, pull requests. Commits that are all over the place. Tests that don’t test anything. Dependencies that import literal malware. Undergraduate-level security issues. Incredibly verbose documentation completely disconnected from reality. Senior engineers who have regressed to an undergraduate-level understanding of basic issues and don’t spot beginner errors in their code, despite having “thoroughly reviewed” it.

On 14 January 2023, the UFC Heavyweight Championship was stripped from Ngannou after he and the UFC could not come to terms on a new contract. Ngannou's contract expired in mid-December, and after the two parties couldn't reach an agreement, the UFC waived its one-year matching rights clause, making Ngannou an unrestricted free agent.[83] In an interview with Ariel Helwani, Ngannou stated that he had requested health insurance, the ability to have sponsorships for all UFC fighters, and to have a fighter advocate present during all fighter contract negotiations. When his requests were denied, Ngannou chose not to re-sign with the UFC,[84] making him the first reigning champion to leave the UFC since B.J. Penn in 2004.[85]

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