An “intelligent agent” would realize the contradiction in terms.

Once upon a time, Apple used to be different. Now they’re just another megacorp that abuses you with enshittification, like they all do.

Different indeed, like that time Jobs pushed U2 album into every iphone.

> The syntax is hard to parse for humans.

Funny how tastes differ. I'm glad it has a syntax that eschews all the noise that the blub languages add.

And you cannot have default arguments for function parameters in F#. They are only allowed with methods.

“HLADE’S LAW:

If you have a difficult task give it to a lazy man — he will find an easier way to do it.”

― Arthur Bloch

That amount of wisdom can only come with boatloads of experience. Those are words to live by.

Deterministic formula evaluation is so boring. You can tell beforehand that the same input will produce the same result every time. With Copilot’s probabilistic formula evaluation you can never tell what the result will be, which makes things much more interesting and entertaining! Who wouldn’t want to have Copilot in Excel?

> Do programmers really find so much fun in creating accidental complexity?

I believe only bad (inexperienced) programmers do.

Of course they can’t. U.S. companies are under U.S. jurisdiction, no matter where their data centers are located.

This is a French company owned by a US company though which makes things complex.

> I found a computer. [...] If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up.

Not any more, now we have “AI”!

your choice in tooling can be the mistake...