Explaining every mild joke sure is a way to flesh out a garbage ad-target article

Now I definitely know you haven’t seen a real professional codebase.

Extremely wrong. So much for your assumptions.

Professional git repos are full of one sentence commit messages with little to no explanation of what’s in the change set.

Yes, humans can communicate poorly, of course. But people letting the LLMs do it do not understand what is in the change, and the LLM certainly doesn’t. There’s no one at all to ask because no one understands what was changed or why.

I’ll take “sometimes lazy but they wrote it and their understanding of it can be interrogated”, all week.

Working professionals are, if at all competent to be committing code to a professional code base, entirely capable of writing their own commit messages.

If they can’t write the commit message, they can’t sufficiently explain in writing the commit they just made to anyone. So, they should not be working professionally on a code base.

If they are capable of writing the commit message with their own understanding in their own words, but they choose not to communicate their understanding in the commit message? Also disqualifying, they should not be working professionally on a code base. Human communication is essential to this work.

That this is a controversial position, is a clear sign of the Slopocalypse.

Another downside of self-hosted VPN is you only have those exit nodes you can afford to pay for.

Established commercial VPN services typically have their hundreds of exit nodes in dozens of countries, all included in what I pay, and allow very easy switching between those at will. I couldn’t afford to run that many exit nodes, nor afford to keep switching to new ones as the old ones get blocked.