I had to read this paper twice to really internalize the horror https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2025/papers/hotos25-414.pdf
the future of systems development is apparently not asking application developers to adopt new APIs, it's just rummaging around in their binaries to figure out what you wish they'd written instead, and then making the program do something better
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