arcologies1985

You know FreeTaxUSA uses Direct File on the backend, right?

They built IRS Direct File which was a huge improvement. Then the administration killed it to serve tax prep companies.

> and the same questions keep getting asked over and over.

This is a feature not a bug. The people asking those questions are new blood and accepting and integrating them is how you sustain your community.

Could you make it use Parakeet? That's an offline model that runs very quickly even without a GPU, so you could get much lower latency than using an API.

literally just 'git rebase origin/main' to insert new commits to main into my branch history prior to the commits I made. No rewrites of later commits required if there are no conflicts. You seem to have an extreme misunderstanding of how git works.

What you and I consider routine work, someone who works with mostly Webdev or might consider extremely difficult. There a lot of programmers who have never used a Linux shell, or know much about networking beyond TCP, or used Linux before outside of a uni class 20 years ago.

git rebase can do that easily, I do it all the time when prepping feature branches for submission to the main branch

At my workplace we now use Claude Code to parse written specs and source code, search through JIRA, and draft, refine and organize tickets (using the JIRA API via a CLI tool). Way faster than through the UI.

However as you point out we have no program-accessible source of data on who stakeholders, contributors, managers, etc. are and have to write a lot of that ourselves. For a smaller business perhaps one could write all of that down in an accessible way to improve this but for a large dynamic business it seems very difficult.

The identity provider is on-device and has to run on phones which don't do hardware attestation.

They can't feasibly do this in the US since many people don't have drivers licenses or passports.

If only this was a game of Victoria 3