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> then they'll unplug the servers and unregister the business.

You must be new to IT. Software businesses rarely truly die off (unless they're really small one person operations). Even Expertsexchange is still around: https://go.experts-exchange.com/

OpenCode offers a web UI?

Why does everyone hate colons?

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How much does it cost to run your own hardware such that the service is comparable to Claude? Similar speed, similar features, web chat access, CLI access?

> Wages do historically appear to grow slightly above inflation: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q so some of the productivity gain is captured by the workers.

The real question is: what's the rate of growth for capital returns vs labor returns? If capital returns are accelerating, over 50-100 years, yeah, we will still end up in techno feudalism.

> Jobs get nice when employers are competing over the same pool of employees.

During an all hands where quarterly earnings were presented for a very large American company, the live audience were obviously employees.

The CFO came on stage and was very enthusiastic about the labor market "loosening". Employees were clapping. Unsure if because they didn't understand the meaning of that statement or because just to appear supportive of leadership.

I was thinking: they're talking about us, turkeys.

Do you believe than an industry that's investing 1 trillion per year in infrastructure, isn't also investing tens of billions in marketing, including pseudo-grassroots movements aka astro turfing? They would be total idiots not to, and they're not.

That's what happens when people think the government should be run like a business.

I love the downvote without the reply.

Caviar progressist.

Are you proposing to sacrifice others from a position of wealth, privilege and safety, for long term benefits?

Or are you an actual graphics designer or the like, who lost their job to AI?

My guess is that coding agents expose deep documentation and advanced patterns better or least faster that wading through everything.

Aren't Durable Objects like... proprietary? Tied to a specific cloud platform?

> Now that software is cheap

Despite what you hear techies say, "really bad software" didn't really exist before, except for some very small enterprise niches. Stuff like Windows, Photoshop or other categories that techies complain, has always hovered between "bad" and "above average" with some moments of hitting "quite good". Really bad software was software that barely did its main job.

Well, really bad software is now super cheap to create.

That won't really change software economics outside of corporate malpractice (those small enterprise niches) or regulatory capture.

Average software is probably only marginally cheaper and good software will be as expensive as always because expectations have shifted up.

What kind of issues did you run into?

The mental gymnastics are astounding. These are companies trying to juice their numbers every quarter. They're threatening to replace labor. That argument has 0 internal consistency.

How do their numbers compare with Anthropic and OpenAI?

Domain knowledge is definitely a moat. I'd argue another moat is surprisingly, if scaling is hard or even impossible. The biggest sharks just won't bother.

Put simply: who not build the perpetual money making machine if you can?

> Its a fantastic bang for buck for us, as previously such complex automations would have been impossible to build economically.

If you really did it with 1.5 people and it is profitable, you will have 1000 clones in 1 year. The only moats will be first mover advantage (slim), connections (all right) and the possible secrecy of how much you're making (very slim).

> but they don't see the big picture/think out of the box.

I know LLMs have some emergent properties. But at the the day they're regression/forecast machines. And those machines ultimately point to the mean, which is definitely in the box. Heck, it IS the box itself.

In that case, can I choose German video games (e.g. Farm Simulator, Truck Simulator) not American video games (e.g. Doom, Call of Duty, Wolfenstein)?

Amusingly, you can use LLMs to analyze a user's posting history to try to determine if they're a shill.

> Is this the new software quality standard we should expect from a company that is worth billions (if not trillions)?

For a while, yes.

It's the logical conclusion of having as the ultimate goal vibe managing a business.

Deployment, deployment, deployment.

The web was successful because the installation cost was 0.

> We are so fucking greedy, status-driven, and prone to violence.

I have good news for you, so is all life. And even our closest relatives, the great apes.

We have succeeded overall despite (because?) of these traits.

This is a known consequence of standards bodies: they get infested by vested corporate interests who generally, in the best case scenario, want the standard to include their entire pre existing implementation. In the worst one they just filibuster and veto proposals until they can't any more and they have to do what everyone else wants/is doing.

This is a phenomenon that dates back to IBM doing this in the 60s-70s-80s.

What's reactivity in this context? How quickly a website responds? My personal experience is that fast backends with server side rendered HTML and a bit of dynamic sections are in practice MUCH faster than SPAs, 20 years after using Gmail for the first time. Gmail then was fast, 95% of modern SPAs are slow.

We can make footwear from textiles, so that covers a part.

And for leather, it would probably be worth it investing in clean tanning and leather processing. It will be a long time before everyone gives up beef & co, so we will have raw hides for a long time. We might as well accept this and use a wonderful natural material that could save us a lot of CO2 emissions, micro and nano plastics, VOCs, PFAS and all the myriad other issues with second generation sytntgetics (polyester, acrylic, nylon, etc).

I have no idea why this is being downvoted when the entire agenda of the current administration is to "starve the beast" by cutting all essential government departments and prove that public administration doesn't work so that everything can be privatized. And meanwhile the head of the current administration basically does what Russia (and Romania in the 90s did), he makes money by selling off those bits and pieces to the highest (personal) bidder.