I know this is a weirdo hope, but I personally would wish to see KDE take a more clear stance against LLM code submissions, and to move away from relying on systemd so much. But I suppose most regular users would prefer more tangible features and changes.

A simple sync would show you when it actually finishes. However, it has system-wide effects. Perhaps KDE could lobby for a similar action to become available that is limited to e.g. a specific process id?

I appreciate the clarification! However, 1. the original comment seemed to be talking about a simple uncustomized frame not looking correct, which sounds like the GNOME problem. And 2. the article still seems to imply Wayland means no SSD, as far as I can tell, which to my knowledge as a general statement isn’t true.

Therefore, I apologize for misreading the main intention of the article, but I think there are multiple reasons why people might misread it. Perhaps some clarifications could help?

Since the article mentions AI: I think good taste is to avoid LLM tools altogether. They hallucinate, seem to have provably no intelligence, and apparently frequently plagiarize. Then the junior coder in question wouldn’t need to wonder much about the LLM output quality either. There are enough reasons beyond the questionable quality to not use these tools.

Perhaps it’s just me, but to me this article feels like belittling the problem by not differentiating between “hated” products and “harmful” products.

If a company makes you work on something that is hated, it’s fair and good to have sympathy. If a company makes you work on something that is harmful or unethical, like many perceive Co-Pilot to be, then an article about getting user hate that doesn’t talk at all about ethics feels a little tonedeaf.

I don’t know, perhaps that’s just me. I certainly don’t envy the writer for being employed to work on it.

Basically, on any sane window manager no matter if Wayland or X11, you’ll get the same frame for all apps for free.

From all the big desktops it’s only GNOME that somehow decided server-side decorations weren’t a good idea implement, and now all Wayland apps have to hand-roll a hacky workaround. The “flat frameless window” look was Electron’s GNOME workaround. What the article is describing is a more elaborate GNOME workaround. On e.g. KDE, none of these problems existed in the first place.

This is a GNOME problem, not a Wayland problem. The article says “On X11, the window manager typically supplies a window’s title bar and frame decorations. But […] on Wayland, all you get back from the compositor is a plain rectangle.” which makes it sound like this is a Wayland problem, but this isn’t true.

Some highlights from this talk: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/issues/413#issuecomment-4105667974 Quote: “Obvious, this is a copyright infringement.”

Kate is a great minimal VS Code alternative. Sure, it’s less features, but it has the basics.

Relevant article: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/you-the-problem-tpm2-solves.en.html

And if anybody thought TPM provides security: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/tpm-2-0-is-a-must-they-said-it-will-improve-windows-security-they-said.13222/ https://gist.github.com/osy/45e612345376a65c56d0678834535166 https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/serious-security-tpm-2-0-vulns-is-your-super-secure-data-at-risk https://www.covertswarm.com/post/how-secure-are-tpm-chips

Reader, you know what’s likely most secure? FOSS code, peer-reviewed and regularly patched.

I don’t get why one would trust security theater, aka TPM and secureboot.

I don’t really trust IBM to know what they’re doing, but it’s still a nice sign.

The lack of intelligence is inherent for LLMs: https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/

This is likely why Apple is the only big tech company that hasn’t entered the AI race with tons of debt and tons of data centers. They’re likely seeing the writing on the wall.

While there could be a new technique arriving to solve this some day, there also may never be one.

It’ll backfire for any non-trivial code base at some point. LLM plagiarized code is just too inherently lacking any sense of big picture. Gen AI doesn’t have the necessary intelligence. I keep linking it but it keeps being relevant: https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/

I doubt it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/2025/06/09/intelligence-illusion-what-apples-ai-study-reveals-about-reasoning/ Gen AIs are literally so unable to have any basic logical thought, I think this is merely the hype.

To anybody still being scared, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3400S4qMH6o

There are solutions to this like having a doc comment right next to the function which is picked up by some API generator. Then it’s easier to keep in sync. That can work well even in languages without explicit parameter types.

Of course it won’t help LLMs as much, but I personally don’t mind that.

Seems like a solution would be 1. update docs and 2. don’t use LLMs to code.

A rolling back mechanism is the best thing to have for server tweaks. I achieve the same with docker. Something similar might be possible with FreeBSD Jails, podman, or anything similar like that. (Not that NixOS is a bad choice, I just wanted to share some more options for anybody looking for some to try.)