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Cuts both ways though, right? You can also quit without notice, you're not obliged to pay your employer severance.

Yeah but 1,2,3 are issues that can be sorted with AGENTS.md, no?

Not sure whether it's good marketing, but interesting insight into the industry.

Having used it in a code-base that had a lot of business logic and objects, I don't mind it at all. It's a transpiler is all. Plus at no point were we married to it, you could generate your query any which way you please, or even hand-craft them if it was getting in your way or your mood shifted.

At this point nearly everyone is using autopilot. It's supposedly just a question of whether the user is a trained pilot or not. The trained pilots resist calling what they're doing "vibe coding", leaving that label to the untrained pilots.

Seems to me it's just research and experimentation.

The argument here is that the hacker ethos is what brought us free/open-source stuff that facilitated us getting where we are today, and that the hacker ethos getting eroded spells doom for widespread free/open-source computing.

Why would it necessarily be proprietary? Where are the hackers who love tinkering with stuff in the meantime? Aren't they going to create free/open-source stuff? Isn't that what they've always done?

Well how many people are working on truly novel features?

In a very different vein, I have read a number of books recently that feature a surprising amount of "scam and schemes":

- The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, about the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. A lot of people were scammed into settling the high plains by railroad salesmanship and other "real estate" scams.

- The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown. A book about the harrowing Donner Party. Scamming and scheming are what draw them out to that expedition.

- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. WW1 history but it boils down to the scheming of various men in the respective countries.

- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, Daniel Yergin. The oil rush from America to the World. Scheming features prominently to say the least.

Nothing wrong really if the python in turn uses libraries with c bindings or something.

Not at all true for most developing countries, they borrow despite the high interest. It just means that the burden of interest payments squeeze out welfare programs, development programs, etc. Usually the IMF/World Bank step in to influence austerity measures, fiscal and monetary policy for further loans to be disbursed.

Well you gotta recharge it of course, just not with a power cord.

Checkmate of a move asking for the passport along with the resume. The latter should stand in for the former before an offer is made.

I think for some people it's an aesthetic knee-jerk reaction and the fact that it's "unusual" for a programming language. It's not like their brains "can't grok" -- it's just syntax after all. People don't tend to have that reaction to xml for some reason. It's data, so it gets a pass. But then this is code-as-data and they have to break that barrier conceptually and then get past the aesthetic knee-jerk reaction.

Ted Kaczynski specifically was advocating for primitivity, no?

Supposedly. If the productivity boost is good for commercial software it's good for open source.

I will attempt a reductio ad absurdum: why do anything other than print dollars then? Why farm? Why build anything? Why not just use the magic wand all the way?

Yeah casual extraordinary claim, I'm equally stumped.

also known as colonies

How nice! I've been mulling over doing exactly this for a while :D

Do you mean that, once on-boarded, crypto holders would only need to trade with fellow crypto holders?

I would be. It's much quicker to draw this than to write code for it.

Pleasantly surprised to see Tz on front-page for once rather than Ke.

> no successful country in the whole continent

That's a glaring statistical aberration

Have you tried asking him nicely?

It's horrible. Yet somehow they still manage to hire and have a thriving company ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Seems to work for them.

backend-backend :D

> eliminate poverty of all kinds

There was never a technical hurdle to this problem where a super-intelligent AI is what we need.

> So pointing out that an LLM has trouble with some concept doesn’t mean anything.

Why? We do the same with children, animals, and people (with severe head trauma for example). Why should AI get special treatment?

We're happy to test if crows and dolphins can do arithmetic and just all sorts of cognitive hoops.