Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
Oct 11, 2026, 7:45 PM@mcc May 2025 public, October 2025 wide access
Edit: apparently it went viral over winter holidays
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Oct 11, 2026, 7:46 PM@nina_kali_nina Huh! It is very plausible to me you are correct
- Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbtOct 11, 2026, 7:48 PM
@mcc Antigravity is November, too
Oct 11, 2026, 8:02 PM@nina_kali_nina @mcc Similarly everyone in the community I work in has been giving keynotes saying “somehow around November last year it suddenly became useful”, to the point that I’d internalised it as common knowledge.
- Oct 11, 2026, 8:04 PM
@h0m54r @nina_kali_nina My working assumption was that this was entirely a cultural shift and didn't correspond to any particular thing that changed. At least, I suspect the right kind of cultural shift could have produced the effect we saw without any technical changes whatsoever.
Ryanfullywoolly@mastodon.socialOct 12, 2026, 1:16 AM@mcc @h0m54r @nina_kali_nina I heard rumblings online, but didn't personally see fervor about it until late January. Probably as Nina mentioned it going viral. I don't have a lot of software friends though.
I wonder if there was a PR campaign that drove it.