It would seem so: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/29/word-worm-crawls-into-copilot-spreads-chaos/5280588

It makes sense: with LLMs and agents based on them, even plain text becomes effectively executable, so any document can carry malicious instructions. It's worse with complex document formats like DOCX, ODT, or PDF, since text can be hidden from the human eye and escape detection by review. Very risky tech...

I think this will depend on the industry. Slow vs fast moving, regulated vs not, whether someone depends on your API or not, etc.

But regardless, having had to deal with some legacy code written 10 years ago by someone who isn't working at the company anymore, I would take an outdated spec over none at all. At least then I know what people intended back then, what they cared about, what they had and hadn't considered. As long as the spec is written by a human, that information is surely valuable.

You end up with a nice spec that you wouldn't have had otherwise? That has value even if you discard all the LLM-generated code.

I think experienced engineers are able to go straight from a vague requirement to an implementation without that intermediate step, and that power is easy to abuse. We build an implicit spec on our head, which gets translated to code on the fly, and then gets forgotten.

Not defending the LLM technology, but i do think this is one of the upside.

Confusing read. Also using "moms" as a shortcut to imply "non tech savvy people" is not a great choice. Way to antagonize and diminish women for the sake of a punchline.

To me it's less about the aesthetics and more about ergonomics. I still feel at times that the UI, specifically the toolbar, is jumbled together without much cohesion. Or that the interface has been designed to allow entering inputs to someone else's tool, rather than built for me to do what I need.

I'm sure some of it can probably be customized; I don't actually use it that much that I feel the need to tinker.

There is actually a fair bit of drama around this relationship with Collabora, it would seem: https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-revoke-votes-related-to-libreoffice-online-atticiziation-and-freezing-of-repository/13495

The vast majority of users don't need "more meat" in their OS. They need stability. Linux Mint works great on that front, I don't see the need to loose focus with multiple new distros. Not everyone needs to jump distro every month.

Disclaimer: i've been using Linux Mint for over 10 years without ever hopping to something else. And I'm a software engineer, not a casual user.

As much as I dislike AI, programming is a field where there's always something for someone to hate. E.g., should we ban C++ articles because there's a lot of Rust fans that hate them?

Your two options are not exclusive. Just create a community to discuss AI programming, cross post to the generic programming community if you think it's relevant, and let people upvote/downvote as they see fit.

This may be KDE Connect. I noticed this happening between my desktop and my phone when installing that app (non KDE desktop). A bit scary at first.