alt Hacker NewsExactly. There's so much negativity, it sometimes borders Luddism.
"We found a bunch of ways to make our product safer and better. We need more time to ship a higher quality product."
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> In the end, I don’t think that the delay in shipping PostgreSQL 19 is particularly concerning. It is not a long delay in the grand scheme of things, and it emerges directly from the project’s concern for quality.
Luddism, did not expect to ever hear that word with Postgres development :>
We could really use a lot more luddites tbh. Doesn't seem very applicable here tho.
Did you honestly need a /sarcasm tag in the article?
The article also concludes that overall, yes, finding more bugs is a good thing. Basically saying it’s the LLMs “fault” that the quality is improving, alongside a slight delay to the release.
They found a more efficient way to play Whac-A-Mole with bugs, they didn't find a way to reduce bugs.
Luddites were actually pretty reasonable when you dig into it. Maybe shouldn't be using it as an insult?