Don't downvote, it certainly did for me. My first computer was a MBP 13inch from 2009, as I was apple obsessed like the person in the parent article. Time passes and I realized I really didn't like either Windows or Mac, and for the past 10 years Ive been linux only. It really does happen, even if rarely.

Yes, that's the joke

I think the timelines are too short for trends to be completely apparent yet. You can typically hire people faster than you can scale your income sources, even in the face of tremendous demand. Right this moment there's factors pushing folks to fire, but I also do see some companies delivering more (not a lot, but noticably more) and seeing increasing sales as a result. Those are in conflict, and we'll see which way the trends push through time.

This takes me back to "contrast rebellion" back in 2011:

https://contrastrebellion.com/

I advise you read the article, it gives many specific examples of things that qualify for such treatment:

> A 600-word commit message or sprawling theoretical essay explaining a profound paradigm shift for a single typo correction or theoretical bug.

> Importing a completely nonexistent, hallucinated library called utils.helpers and hoping no one would notice.

There's plenty more. All pretty egregious