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Tech bros having their production environments nuked by AI is never gonna get old (suppo.fi)

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 16 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

That's because the joke got updated to the newest OS version until CONFIG.SYS got entirely removed in Windows ME and it just didn't work any more.
It's originally from MS-DOS times. Earliest telling of it I know of is from 1996.