'Get off the TL': the AI world's hype anxiety vs. the reality of Java 8 shops
vboykis · x · 2026-10-05
vboykis jokes about AI-circle hype anxiety: "get off the TL sometimes, it's good for you, brother they're still writing Java 8 out there." The point: while AI Twitter feels like technology moves impossibly fast, much of the real software world still runs on legacy stacks like Java 8 — a reminder not to let timeline pressure distort your sense of reality.
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