Bob Martin is a complete hack. He should not be regarded as an authoritative source and indeed, any claim he makes should be treated as highly suspect. He's not worth reading.

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Yup. Bob has always been full of shit.

It's not getting POSIX compliance done, that's for sure. Or compatibility with normal scripts.

It's not that far from the truth, it's just the thing they pick is what they saw on Fox News that morning.

Because long lines are bad for splits and/or vertical monitors. You don't know the viewport the code will be read in, so keeping to a conservative width is helpful. If things wrap or require scrolling, that's a lot worse for legibility, whereas having lines limited to 80 has minimal impact on legibility.

I personally format all comments to 80 (using vim's gw command) and never touch LLMs.

Sweet justice.

Am 35, just started getting into birdwatching. Weird how true this is.

Yeah, but you put the pickles on after. Cooking with pickles is super gross.

The difference is that there were services that could leverage the Internet and be profitable. Every AI company is wildly unprofitable and burning unfathomable amounts of money. There's no path for them to become profitable, unlike some companies in the dotcom era.