I wonder why exactly do they want to increase AI compute that fast.

I would understand if their current infrastructure weren't able to handle traffic of core services like Facebook. Then it would be justified because it would mean worse user experience and less profits in effect.

But AI? Have I missed something? As far as I know everything Meta have shown so far were just toys. So why are they in hurry?

Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively

I'm curious how it will turn out to be in a long term. Are we going to have safer software? Because not only defenders will have a powerful tool, but attackers too. But at the same time, number of bugs is finite... Can we in theory one day achieve literally zero bugs in codebase?

Please change title, we don't want clickbait here

I'm using Proton for privacy, not anonymity. I've literally put my name and surname in my email address. I don't care if someone knows that me is me.

But I do care that no one is reading and/or automatically processing my mails.

saves 15 million euros in license costs

This attitude is plainly wrong. If you use Linux because it is free as "free of charge" then you are missing a point. You should use it because it is open.

I would even say that they should contribute the same amount of money to organisations that actually develop a software that they are going to use. Because they will certainly need support and security patches and this will never be free

It's the IKEA effect. You tend to like something more if you built it yourself.

The biggest problem with comments is that they can become outdated. If you change code but forget to change comment you introduce very dangerous situation where they become not only not useful, but also misleading.

If you rely on variable names, you've got a single source of truth, one thing to change at a time. Information updates itself.

I'm ok with auto generated content, but only if it is clearly separated from human generated content, can be disabled at any time and writing main articles with AI is forbidden

I love being in EU

So the current situation in Windows ecosystem is that application developers spend time working on protecting users against their own operating system

People seem to be happy because of SO becoming irrelevant. I really don't get it, I used this website for many years now and for me it is the second (after Wikipedia) most valuable source of knowledge. The UI is clean, no intrusive adds, best answer is the most visible. Threads are well organised and on topic. No spam, no dark patterns, no wasting your time. Discoverability is great, you can easily browse and learn knew things. It is also SEO friendly. Why do you prefer Discord? What do I miss?

A few things to point out:

• Microsoft created this extension and pays money to develop it
• Despite that, they give it to programmers for free. It is still free of charge.
• They explicitly said that using it outside of their products is forbidden (according to article: at least 5 years ago), they just didn't enforce it
• Someone (here: Cursor developers), despite that, used it in their products and started to make money from it

What exactly are you mad at? When will programming community finally understand that Microsoft is not a non-profit company and its primary purpose is to make money?