They’re focusing on platforms that allow them to censor discussion.

v1 in 2005

v7 in 2025

It’s amazing how little the UI has changed in 20 years. It looks a little dated but only in the sense that it’s a functional piece of software rather than the trash people build today

This is a rather sensationalist headline.

Every so often software developers need to eat food and live beneath shelter.

The developer of Boost @rmayayo@lemmy.world provides a free version that’s supported by ads, or you can purchase an ad free experience for a one time cost. That’s been a standard business since forever.

There isn’t any grand conspiracy here.

If you’re developing something that has been written a million times before such as a user authentication API then yes you can just let ChatGPT do it for you.

But as soon as you’re writing something new or niche any LLM is going to mostly spew useless nonsense.

I’ve been working with Bevy a lot lately and because it’s new and iterating quickly there are a lot of breaking changes between versions. AI simply isn’t able to cope with that. It was trained with years old data and is incapable of adapting to the new way of doing things