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Parable of the mechanic who charges $5k to hit a machine on the side once with a hammer to get it working. $5 for the hammer, $4995 for the knowledge of where to hit the machine etc etc.

Nor does the cop who demands $100 for letting you go without arresting you.

But they're still responsible for their own personal piece of the rot in the system.

Ever seen a vibe-coded react app? It's astounding how well SOTA LLMs can produce good looking code in detail, but zoom out to the architectural or broader picture and it becomes an unholy mess.

It's like a masterpiece painted by an artist with their nose 5 inches from the canvas at all times.

Just teach backend engineers to do frontend pixel perfect CSS!

Different fields.

Workpersonship doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

Perhaps its because american hyperscalers want unlimited upside for their capital?

I never wanted to memorise trivia, like remembering flags on a certain cli command. That always felt so painful when I just wanted to do a thing

Isn't that kind of nuts?

They can't even properly beta test their new releases?

Agreed that beads seems way over engineered for an issue tracker.

You're prompting it wrong!

Let's see how it shakes out after Athropic and OpenAI fully stop subsidizing their plans, that may alter the calculus.

So it was just the head of the family?

What if there were several of these birthday parties in succession due to siblings dying?

Yeah but who pays the enormous cost?

Tell that to the thousands of comp sci students who drop out every year because they don't like programming in C!

I mean they hired the guy who created it. It's not exactly like openclaw is a real product.

But will they pay the unsubsidized cost when anthropic needs to turn a profit?

Does it matter that codex is now as good as claude code?

Check dev spaces like twitter and discord and all anyone talks about is claude-code, openclaw, opus 4.6 etc.

The mindshare went to anthropic.

Trivia was always the hallmark of an insufferable programmer. Remembering the syntax to regex always struck me as a detail of programming, not a fundamental. I'm glad I no longer have to waste my life debugging it.

Gross margin

The worst are the anecdotal poster claiming that they are faster and more correct than an LLM nearly all the time.

If that's not delusional thinking I don't know what is.

Bang on.

RSLs and pub/bistros on shopping centres and along major thoroughfares are the big ones. They're absolutely everywhere, just not traditional pubs in the inner to mid suburbs as much.

RIP

Isn't that state based?

Also I'd say the federal government's approach to ICE deportations is a little stronger than even the COVID measures.

To add to it too, they only gate the download behind developer.apple.com or the app store. But the .app file doesn't phone home when installing

I love a github repo's readme.md that only uses jargon and contains no intro paragraph on what the thing is or how it is to be used.

What do you reckon? Do you think that is true for me and thousands of others, or that your opinion on this is too narrow and rigid?

Am I an untrained human if I believe that Claude Opus 4.6 produces generally better code than I do in most circumstances?

Even with years as a principal engineer at a company with high coding standards and engineering processes?

If I never have to debug a gradle file ever again, it's all worth it.