Is Xcode actually a program, or a fractal zipbomb of nested installers?
Software update: "New Xcode!"
I fill with dread.
Two hours later: Finally launch Xcode.
Xcode: "Oh, did you want a compiler?? Update tools! Update components!"
Two hours later: press "Run".
Xcode: "Suddenly you have no simulators! Those old ones, they were no good! Download a single simulator!"
Four hours later...
@jwz I find this so exhausting. Apple owns every step of this process so it's kind of tough to avoid the conclusion that they're completely indifferent to it.
@jwz Coding was once fun. Not that overblown IDEs with gazillion dependencies which need to download of a work day. Or now with AI hype, big datasets just to detect if there is a dick in an image or not.
The dread to imagine that hackers may be just reduced to gig workers for "solving" problems for an AI dataset reminds me on the work Qohen in the Zero Theorem works.
The stupidification of this kind of work is depressing. Too bad it resonated with me. Depressing.
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