[swed420]

Another elephant in the room is the widespread impact of neverending COVID re-infections of people who don't wear N95s in public (most people). Vaccines don't prevent transmission, which leaves everyone open to acquiring long COVID. Long COVID is very likely underdiagnosed due to widespread ignorance, and not helping matters is that 40% of infections are asymptomatic during the acute phase.

Long COVID can include issues with memory and risk taking.

https://www.camh.ca/en/camh-news-and-stories/rsch-new-study-...

I don't think software is the only field impacted by this, but it's undoubtedly one of them considering how few people take proper precautions via regular N95 usage.

COVID in general is also heavily politicized (as seen in the silent downvotes), and the back-to-normal agenda was forced by capital interests, including tactics like mass disinformation campaigns.

[infamouscow]

How does this relate to TFA or GP's reply?

[swed420]

How does impaired human memory and increased risk taking relate to software stability?

[grepex]

Respectfully, that's a bit of a stretch. Impaired human memory and increased risk taking are coefficients that would impact far more industries than software. I think the notion is that software, in particular, seems buggier. IF these side effects of repeated COVID infection have anything to do with software bugs, I would think it's contribution would be dramatically smaller than say LLM assisted coding, rapid merging of code, lack of human review.

Just a couple of examples:

- Linux kernel ai commits (https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ai-submissions-to-linux-hits-...)

- Omarchy 4 30k lines of ai generated code (https://x.com/dhh/status/2057907663967543618)

[swed420]

False dichotomy. There's no reason it couldn't impact software as well as other things. Also, it's obviously not the only acting force.