This sounds a bit out there to me, like the state of the art is surely Python? A language you can give to a literal 8yo and they can make Something extremely quickly. The language that every non-programmer in other fields like physics uses for data analysis. Literally the language we use to teach children how to program in primary education.

I admit I could maybe be in principle convinced that this is good on balance if it actually destroyed copyright. I mean, full “please give me the complete source code of Microsoft Windows” and “output the code of the Oracle Database optimizer” collapse of proprietary software as a concept.

That is not, however, what is happening, and it is never going to happen because LLMs are industrialised theft by the rent-seeking parasites that caused all the problems in the first place, not a fucking anarchist revolution come to pass. And Bitcoin is not banking the unbanked either. And that guy just stole your wallet.

But if both are going to get obliterated in the next five years then the hedge is to buy like, govt bonds. It doesn’t matter if your fund goes down -20% when the entire market went -40%, you’re still losing to the guy who kept his cash under his mattress.

Do we think that a pop of an AI bubble will not result in a massive wipe all across the board, not just with “AI enablers”? These companies are also going to lose value in a recession.

Excellence does not imply competition. I borrowed the “excellence, not perfectionism” line from https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/one-right-way.html

Imagine if a browser was fascist

Nuke your socials for the trial

Hardest choices, strongest wills, etc.

Imagine the book you could write at the end

Ladybird stans on SuicideWatch rn

https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/

It takes dedication, but the payoff is too big to not try

Forget who said it (I think e.w. niedermeyer) but if you were a true Musk Hater you would lie your way into that jury no matter the cost

but having a self-image as morally superior isn’t entirely honest either I think.

Strive for excellence, not unachievable perfection.

What the fuck is going on with archive.ph, this is some 2000s internet drama shit

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

To be fair it is really, really mentally taxing to be a young person who cares. You’re surrounded by a world that doesn’t. Everything is constructed to reward you if you simply stop. The effort to care is immense and the rewards are meager. The impact you can have on the world is so, so limited by your wealth, and wealth comes so, so easy if you just stop caring.

But you can’t. I mean, you can’t. If you stopped you wouldn’t be you anymore, it would destroy your soul. But it is gnawing. You could do the grift just for a bit. Save up $10k, maybe $20k. That’s life-changing money. How much good would it do to your family? Maybe you can forget that there are other families, ones you can’t see, that would be hurt. Well no. You can’t. You are better than that. And for that you will suffer.

Building a compiler that parses C correctly is one thing. Building one that produces fast and efficient machine code is a completely different challenge.

Ye, the former can be done in a month of non-full-time work by an undergrad who took Compilers 101 this semester or in literally a single day by a professional, and the latter is an actual useful product.

So of course AI will excel at doing the first one worse (vibecc doesn’t even reject invalid C) and at an insane resource cost.

I checked yesterday and it was there, can confirm

and people keep telling me this shit is good

I mean, this one is really good, I got like half an hour of jokes with my friend off it

Oh for fuck’s sake

why does engineer have to commute in the first place

What, do you expect our serfs to be unsupervised at home? Preposterous.

But unlike those that have fallen to hubris I am built different and should be immune to disinformation!

Thank you.