Post #1539110
2026-04-19 06:45 UTC
Someone at #Apple sat at their keyboard and wrote this error message for #Xcode.
Maybe replacing devs with an AI tool is a step forward in some cases.
I’m not even starting to talk about the fact that the alert looks like it is disabled/in the background but is not.
Replies (4)
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@dasdom@chaos.social 2026-04-19 18:10
@teilweise What are the details? I guess it's something like [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Cannot %@ because %@", action, reason];.
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@electret@merveilles.town 2026-04-19 18:18
@teilweise pretty sure nobody wrote this as is, more likely something like “cannot because ”. At least that’s what I’d hope 😅
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@uncaughtcreative@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-19 23:41
@teilweise Sorry but this looks like it could have written by an ESL programmer. Yes that person could have used software to translate from their original language.
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@mayo@social.oyam.ca 2026-04-20 05:49
@teilweise I’d be willing to entertain the idea that the message is supposed to be “can’t delete X because Y is already installed”, except it’s a code bug and X and Y got evaluated to blank/null. Still not great message, but the wording does make more sense that way.