> On June 15, Oracle engineer Lois Foltan confirmed what a good chunk of the industry had stopped believing: JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects will be integrated into the main OpenJDK repository and is targeting JDK 28.
> The change is so large that the remaining committers were asked to hold off on bigger commits during the integration. The pull request alone adds over 197 thousand lines of code across 1,816 files.
What in those paragraphs is obviously AI?
« The pull request alone adds over 197 thousand lines of code across 1,816 files. »
I noticed that both Claude and GPT are fond of those kind of stupid accounting statements that don’t mean a lot in and of themselves, but look impressive in a « wow numbers » way. Which is kind of ironic since counting remains one of their weak points
People care about provenance a lot.
Whether it’s a drawing my daughter did of her mother, a Picasso napkin sketch, a worn 1960s Stratocaster, or an blog essay, the provenance is value on top of the correctness of the item.