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I guarantee you that every investor knows they are not knowledgeable about technical details. So, they have a person on call that they’ve designated as their technical advisor (or even entrepreneur-in-residence, depending on how much the investor is paying this person).

The problem is there’s no incentive for this advisor to admit they are out of their depth because the money will stop flowing: some flavor of “if you can’t help me on this, then what am I paying you for?”.

Experienced investors, a.k.a. those who have previously been burned and learned from it will have multiple technical advisors categorized by their past career specializations.

The other investors will continue to rely on the advice of one jack-of-all-trades with questionable results.

What AI has largely changed is how the communication barrier (or perception thereof) is dealt with between two sides: one which consists of those who perceive gatekeeping or attribute their lack of substantive progress to it, and the other side which consists of the time, resources, and skills the former feels entitled to or indebted towards.

I’ve had a running theory for a few years now that some tech folks are more open to receiving an error message from a compiler or other tool, than they are to critical feedback from a peer. If they’re blocked and finally have exhausted their other avenues (pre-LLM: web searches, forums, etc), they’ll reluctantly engage with a peer, and do so with extremely limited patience.

The first paragraph of this reply is extending that theory to non-tech —-> tech, but replace compilers with LLMs that _appear_ to be more useful (or at least busy) working with what limited context you provide them, especially when it’s insufficient.

It won’t quite tell you your app idea is unrealistic or that the implementation is nearly impossible, but after burning a bunch of time and tokens, those people will eventually get the point.

Or reluctantly reach out to a tech person anyway.

Bright lighting is typically an artifact of the commercial property insurance policy in effect (namely, "Protective Safeguards"). It's asking you to demonstrate that you've done enough to create a barrier towards theft/loss.

It doesn't have to be really bright lighting but that's the easiest thing to satisfy the underwriter's request, and as a result, the cheapest to implement.

You’re right, they don’t care.

People are using LLMs for the things they consider distractions but are “required”, or at least feel that way about: ads, marketing web sites, emails to/from coworkers, and even RFP responses to government agencies.

Wherever someone uses the raw output of an LLM signifies how little they wanted to do the work in the first place yet still [desperately] want to reap the benefits of appearing to care.

Yesterday, I was searching for local HVAC maintenance companies when I came across one with a map showing their service area.

At a quick glance, it seemed fine but that was no longer the case once you zoomed in: it was a collection of hallucinated, non-sensical names. I too said, “how in the world was this reviewed and approved!?”, and then quickly came to the same conclusion that you did: “nobody gives a shit about this stuff anymore”.

https://mcairllc.com/images/service-area.png

While I don’t disagree, this is an article written by an Australian doctor.

That’s a scary thought (at least, to me). But all change is scary.

The thought is a new wave of people who only know LLM-generated sites, so those design patterns are what they demand/emulate/etc. across the spectrum of user interfaces.

The only previous trend I can draw a parallel to was when Comic Sans and Microsoft Clip Art dominated every flyer and poster.

Total population (341M) is the wrong divisor. It’s so much worse.

Count the number of Americans who would have an ID worth scanning (aka ages 18 or over): 269M [1].

Or the number of Americans with a driver’s license: 212M (2013) [2].

1: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-...

2: https://www.bts.gov/content/licensed-drivers

Can you share which model and harness created this situation?

I remember this “time” in my US classroom where we were all punished with if one person damaged classroom property (or worse, school property) but no one was willing to speak up and tell on the offender.

I have similar stories from our local neighborhoods where another parent might yell at you but the tales of your exploits made it home before you did. And there consequences waiting for you.

It’s a matter of timeline, not country.

By the late 1990s, I started to see said teachers pushing kids along as to 1) not deal with them again, and 2) pressure from district/state to not have as many failing students a.k.a. optimizing for the metric.

Link to White House memo: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/08/expa...

Thanks for the correction. I guess I had a mis-paste that stripped out the leading part of the hostname... weird.

I use rspamd.

This might be a little heavy if you’re solely looking for DMARC validation, but I use the other parts of rspamd as well for inbound email.

https://rspamd.com/modules/dmarc/

For a library, I mainly write Go and I use https://github.com/emersion/go-msgauth (formerly known as go-dkim).

It's the same incentive that exists in certain corporations and government agencies which have a use-it-or-lose-it budgeting model.

https://www.nber.org/digest/mar14/use-it-or-lose-it-budget-r...

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/politics/use-it-or-lose-it-pe...

Here's an odd request for you, as a fellow New Jersey-an...

Can I watch/observe one of your review sessions?

Every few weeks, I hear the beginnings of a great approach towards working with LLMs but I rarely see it in practice.

If you're open to this, remote or in person, ping my username at gmail.

It’s like the old firewall meme, reincarnated.

https://securityzap.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/layered-s...

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Their family meals don’t include drinks.

Looking at the Popeyes menu, the 8pc family meal is $32.99 and feeds 3-4 people (3218-3738 calories)

If that’s not enough, you order the larger portion, not double your quantity.

12pc family meal: $42.99 for 4-6 people (4992-6032 calories)

16pc family meal: $52.99 for 6-8 people (6766-8326 calories)

Have you folks seen a Popeyes family meal? They’re not tiny… eating that many calories in one sitting is not the best idea.

The chicken sandwich large combo at Popeyes consists of the sandwich, 2 sides (fries, slaw), and a fountain drink — $14.99.

The 5pc chicken tenders regular combo (tenders, fries, biscuit, fountain drink) is $15.99.

Where did the other ~$20 USD come from?

$550 is a steal.