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ha ha - how do people write these sort of blog posts in all seriousness. Are they perpetually high?

Hmm...how do you stop private thoughts from reaching the LLM? Suddenly you can be prosecuted for thinking the "wrong" thoughts?

Terms of Service with no specified legal entity behind it. But yeah, they'll take payment through Stripe for their vibecoded slop.

The owner of this company is a self-confessed Nazi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation If you were alive at this time, would you have focused only on the tech…

Are AI firms going to charge us to write code, and then charge us even more to secure it?!

> We should be more tired than the model I understand the rationale behind this, but can't help feeling that this is a downward spiral. The software industry has always been a hard…

Yeah, I get that, but if you were going to edit some AI slop and pass it off as some high brow opinion piece, at least ensure it makes some sense? WTF is this crap?

According to the article, isn't it the "measurers" that are getting fired? So what is the "Revenge of the Measurers"?

So I fired up Developer Tools to see what was happening...and the site just loaded. I am so confused.

I've only got "Firefox Multi-Account Containers" and "Privacy Badger". I tried reloading with Privacy Badger disabled, still the same behaviour. Works in Safari and Chrome with no …

Unrelated to the content of this submission, but trying to visit this link in Firefox takes me into an endless recaptcha loop, whereas visiting in Chrome took me to the site withou…

Wow - why anyone would build a serious Saas platform this day and age on Windows is beyond me.

Exactly my thoughts on the matter. However much ones instinct is to paint an entire country with a broad brush (looking at China, America, Iran), there are always good people withi…

When I was a child, I was part of a team playing a game against a team which was stronger than us. Each player from one team had to take turns taking the attack to the opponent's t…

It's a concept of a sandbox.

Seems a bit harsh. Have you experienced the noise being described here first hand? How can you be sure it is the same as what you are experiencing and find acceptable?

Labeling the actual worker negatively seems harsh - they are probably being forced into it by the state. You might say they can willingly underperform and not be used this way - bu…

I agree - this is closer to bonded labor though the paying employer doesn't know it. Instead most of their earnings go to their actual employer (which is the North Korean state). "…

It is possible that they don't understand the risks involved, but yes, it certainly is tapping into unmet need.

Microsoft has been selling piles of shit since the beginning of time. The fact that they keep selling is the biggest triumph of sales/marketing over decent engineering.

I feel for the author, but I'm not sure we will ever get to the point where programmers are replaced. Building a software product requires so much more than just writing some code.…

> I remember hearing a few months ago that companies in the EU still have to use Dun & Bradstreet (a US company) for routine government filings! Only to do business with US compani…

You cannot offload all problems to the legal system. It does not have the capacity. Legal issues take time to resolve and the victims have to have the necessary resource to pursue …