The issue is that's incoherent and cheapens otherwise good writing on a topic with images and interfaces that aren't accurate representations of the topic. To wit:

Compare these to what VB development actually looked like (I'm old, I was there, I programmed in VB professionally), and you'll see how much of a disservice the AI slop images in the article do to the actual experience of working in the language:

(credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)#/media/File:Microsoft_Visual_Basic_for_MS-DOS_(Professional_Edition_Version1.00).png )

Finding this accurate, fair use license image took me minutes.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I thought everybody would have wanted to forget about that.