I feel this. In my line of work I really don’t like using them for much of anything (programming ofc, like 80% of Lemmy users) because it gets details wrong too often to be useful and I don’t like babysitting.

But when I need a logging message, or to return an error, it’s genuinely a time saver. It’s good at pretty well 5%, as you say.

But using it for art, math, problem solving, any of that kind of stuff that gets tauted around by the business people? Useless, just fully fuckin useless.

Given who he was, probably the latter as a to-him socially acceptable racist dog whistle.

Yeah, outside the joke and old complaint, I’ve been liking uv for my small Python projects.

He tried to deploy his project. Legends say, it’s still not live and no one knows what dependencies might be missing.