ai-skeptics 2026-11-02

I wanted to edit a foldable help widget by hand. Click the "+" next to "Help" to expand it. "Help" did not come up in a global search, AI had used "+ Help" / "- Help". OMG. What else hath AI wrought in my code base?!!!!!

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You must really love functional programming if even your UI consists of foldables.

The one objection to reactive programming is that it kinda compels one to be all-reactive-all-the-time: how can imperative code dive reliably into a reactive flow? But then I am sure I have an unwoke fortune cookie somewhere about being married to Anna Kournikova. ps. UIs are perhaps the perfect use case for reactive: they have multiple ways of achieving things, and the determinative state comes from those most disorderly of beasts, a human. pps. A UI layout problem occasioned https://tilton.medium.com/the-making-of-cells-5ab873d1e6c7, ne Semaphors.