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the issue is largely with the community not cz of UI libraries.

ruby is largely built around Rails. so when rails was hot & the trade-offs were worth it grew. now that Rails has a lot of controversy and not really worth then of course users dropped off.

within the JS community - the only two things that have a large market share are a express.js & React. but then again not everyone is forced into using them so even if the authors of React were racist or tryna be based - the market would largely move to other frameworks without blinking an eye.

with Rails - a lot of devs stayed away. & drained the new blood.

I love ruby by the way - such a fine expressive language.

I also think their business model is interesting in that they can also serve Chinese models e.g GLM and fine tune them for enterprises.

which is a market Chinese labs won't get into.

they only other company they compete with is probably palantir in that regard.

mass literacy without critical thinking begat communism - which had massive detrimental effects on the world.

maybe the elites like the journalists e.g author above - who wanna control thought & media - in a roundabout way unleashed a beast they can't control - social media - which turns people into passive consumers. now the people can't be controlled at all - massive apathy due to social media. Trump 2016, Brexit etc was the result.

systems of record & vertical integration wins time and time again.

people r tryin' to equate this to a franchise model, some the amazon 3rd party model.

nope - this is just Elon raising money without going to the stock market or government but directly to Elon worshipping idiots.

he benefits two ways - interest free Capex, then higher stock prices by reporting higher number of cybercabs on the road. & guess who takes a punch to the mouth - the Elon worshippers.

with the amazon model | franchise models there's shared risk - not exactly equal but shared risk.

with Elon - one person is eating the risk, while one person eats 90% of the gains.

BillG discovering the negative effects of BigCo's not having a Directly Responsible Individual.

in the whole email thread - no one owns up to fix it - they're just passing the hot potato around.

26 years later - windows is still a mess.

with wasm and v8 isolates -- the world should move away from containers.

you literally have a sandbox environment that behaves the same everywhere and is very performant.

but I guess people don't know shit anymore since they delegated thinking to 'llms'

congrats - this is massive. created in 2018 and already delivering payloads to space in 2026 - less than 10 years.

to me the biggest event more than deepseek launch was when zAI served their latest model on all Chinese chips.

rewrite it in rust might be a joke -- but damn most the massive improvements in dynamic language toolchains have come from the toolchains being rewritten in rust - Python, JS

a lot of educators in the frontend space are very good and had excellent material e.g Dr Alex.

before 'A.I' - frontend was a tarpit - very few people did it well specially with SPA frameworks. There was always something broken whether due to state mismatch or something else. the state management libraries didn't help either with most of them being so complex. HTMX etc were a reaction to that complexity. Then add performance stuff - very few people had the skills to solve for that too.

now with 'A.I' - most of the educational material has either been taken offline due to 'A.I' scrappers, the llm's tend to hallucinate - so how are we gonna nurture talent to become experts. One thing I give to llms though - is that they're very good at plain javascript, decent at the frontend frameworks. But complexity around frontend work still remains - with 'A.I' generated code & devs who don't understand how to fix stuff - just a disaster waiting to happen.

most goods in the US today are transported via trucks. most of the whole main-street runs on diesel as well think home services businesses etc.

cost of diesel has a reverb effect across the whole economy.

the shrinkage is felt but won't be truly reflected in the economy. so the government can keep lying about the numbers.

people tend to have short memories though.

late 90s and early 00s - even while growing up in the 3rd world - you bought or pirated a software license.

so we've never really purchased or bought software.

that's a beautiful ui

based on your experience - if you were Tim Cook what would you have done ?

you can blame Tim Cook for other things - but giving trump that useless statue - you can admire Tim Cook for his shrewdness & political capacity.

he knew he was facing an incompetent petty adversary. so instead of preserving his ego - he damaged his instead of damaging Apple itself. that's a martyr like sacrifice.

has Tim Cook put company profits over the customer - yes. but has Tim Cook preserved apple's value & position yes when it could have been severely damaged by trump, YES.

whether vibe coded (which it is) or not - this is free work for a corporation.

that could hardly care less for it's users / customers.

I have a feeling the author framed this the wrong way.

my take is - the author wanted to express that there's always a demand for human prose / writing that captures the subtleties of expression, thought & ideas. which is very true. & we can already see this e.g by people opting out of LinkedIn for it's A.I driven long posts. whereas engagement is high on X where posts are likely to be human generated.

I wouldn't say writing as a job is protected - as corporations will always take shortcuts.

Firefox sucks on memory though on MacOS.

I use Firefox when I want disposable tabs / containers.

then majority of stuff - Safari. private window work stuff set to chrome - since I can resume the session unlike safari.

it's a Sunday - I don't have time to put things into buckets.

there's coding - writing code to do something could be a game, utility to move files around. what have you. inherently the nature is a closed domain. AI is perfect here - the impact if something goes wrong is close to 0 or null.

then there's software engineering - which is both an art & science. u r dealing with rules of thumb. nothing is ever coded / written down. but a feel to whether something feels right or not. the domain is unbounded. the impact of something going wrong is catastrophic in all dimensions. coding is a delivery mechanism for software engineering. but not the actual work. using A.I here is useless.

but we keep having these pieces - I guess that's just shallow the industry is.

the unfortunate thing - is the money pumped into omarchy + the hype around it .... a lot of sheepish followers will just follow the hype.

the tech might gets fixed later.

wish more lawyers broke down things simply like you did.

unfortunately - as you pointed out the outcome of the cases being a coin flip at the supreme court is the tragedy in all of this.

monzo r the same guys who went in on micro services. at a time they were bragging 3 micro services per engineer. so yeah a lot of things don't make sense.

there's this [0] - Zep.

e.g for a lot of small business - they generate invoices - feed that into a RAG system. Then have an agent etc do follow ups. for agents then the smaller models are enough.

[0]: https://help.getzep.com/graphiti/getting-started/overview

for Auth - why don't people go with trusted solutions that work without hiccups.

if you want hosted setups - FusionAuth, Stytch etc.

if you work in a mainstream language/framework - some excellent libraries eg in ruby authentication-zero, in js - BetterAuth, Django-all-auth.

for AWS as well - use their solutions where you don't need to read a lot of docs.

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it has been close to 100 years now - that the U.S has been the leading destination for researchers, scientists & other ambitious individuals.

before it was Germany - but then nazism took hold. & researchers left starting from 1925/30. Slowly now Germany is recovering their place in science.

such a tragedy - with the dismantling of NIH etc - smart people might say, the U.S made progress without the NIH. The issue is the US was able to invite a lot of immigrants, then even raid those ones with blemished records e.g during Operation Paperclip.

100 years of work, going to waste. It will likely take another 100 years to recover.

I don't think software developers need to unionize - but to form French style co-ops.

e.g a lot of video game studios even the AAA ones could be co-ops. same as a lot of SAAS software companies. Linear - just announced a tender offer. I don't see a reason - why linear couldn't work as a co-op.

pretty good article.

I wish everyone in our industry read 'No Silver Bullet, & Grug-brained Developer'.

a lot of complexity - is about what can we do now, with what we have.

small models + a good application layer - are more than enough, good for routine business tasks.

the application Layer i.e having a good graph RAG & connecting it up together is the missing piece for most.