Similar requirements exist in India too.

is this how modern survival of the fittest work now?

There was a joke going around for awhile renaming Darwin awards as Herman Cain awards. A bit mean, but it had some merit.

that's great but cheaper android phones come with built-in Meta apps/services which cant even be uninstalled.

You can still disable them and I think also uninstall with adb.

I'd like to point out this situation to anyone who supported privatizing Space. Your access can be cut off in a second.

This is a quality vs quantity issue. There were x number of extremely competent and ~10x moderately competent programmers.

LLMs have only made this to 100x moderately competent programmers and may be 2xed extremely competent ones?

Even 2x would be an improvement. It would mean that a project goes from being 3 years late, to only 1.5 years late.

I test enterprise software and I can tell you there are always a list of "known" bugs in the backlog that never gets fixed unless an existing customer asks for it. This is the case in every large org I've worked in.

Did you get a response from your manager?

Yes, I did, and he said it was as OK to click ads as to click any other link.

> software first agile mentality

I can release a website with a list of known bugs. Do any govt allow release of cars with known bugs?

There's a wide spectrum of possible bugs. I would hazard that every car ever sold was sold with known bugs.

As long as you're reasonably confident that the bugs don't pose a safety issue I don't see the problem.

> construct a file in such a way that it can create an updated copy of itself and save it back to the server

Is there some way to accomplish this through GitHub? Like the single html file running on GitHub.io pages can commit the changes to its repo?

You should be able to use the Smart HTTP protocol with HTTP Basic Auth (https://git-scm.com/docs/http-protocol) to push a locally-created commit. Forgejo supports CORS here, but I don't know whether GitHub does.

Both GitHub and GitLab have killed http basic auth https://docs.github.com/en/rest/authentication/authenticatin... https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/git/troubleshooting_git.ht...

That's not to say one couldn't still do what you're describing via other headers, I'm just saying "<input name=username><input name=password>" won't get it done

> That's a terrific idea

I think you meant 'terrific' in the old original meaning.