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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by ben_w on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:26AM (#50365230)
At this point, a browser is a significant part of the way to being an OS virtualised inside the OS it's really running on. Complete with occasional leaks through the virtualisation to the real host OS/machine.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by hnedeotes on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:13AM (#50365811)
Yes, chrome for instance is more lines of code than the entirety of Linux, I think this just makes the case stronger for what I said. Although I understand why it might be so.
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