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Thank you. I have been a software dev a long time. More than 30 years. I did not know what this acronym stood for. I read the article and the article it linked to. Neither spent half a sentence explaining what the acronym means.

> Isn't it kind of the intersectionality of the right of self determination and the right to freely associate or the right to not freely associate?

Not entirely sure what you are saying here. Are you saying that people should have the right to keep outsiders out? If so, yeah. Totally. But, if you are rapidly losing population, and the young ones are refusing to make a lot more babies, then your options are rather limited.

> Everyone in SWE (who got into it for the love of writing code) is experiencing this.

I love writing code. But I also love solving problems. AI allows me to solve problems in different ways. And I am totally enjoying that as well. If someone got into this SWE only to code, yes, they may not love where things are today and appear to be going in the future.

> If Anthropic or OpenAI fails, the other wins the US market, no?

I am of the opinion that they both either succeed or they both fail. They are both losing money hand over fist and their model quality is pretty close to each other. There is not a whole lot that sets them apart.

> So you want passkey-level security, but are okay to let a 3rd party manage your passwords?

You can self host an open-source solution if you do not trust 3rd parties. I put high value on convenience. TOTP solutions are not as convenient.

> Really? Hundreds of billions of dollars in debt is an improvement?

We are not debating Anthropic finances in this article.

> their culture, people, and society would rapidly shift

Why is it critically important to maintain a particular culture at a cost that is not sustainable? Why is allowing creation of a new culture, a mixture of multiple cultures, such a bad that thing? Particularly when a country is facing serious popular decline.

> the only really good solution is for the people within countries to actually start having a sustainable number of children again.

Never mind. I did not realize the solution was so simple. And I am surprised it did not occur to anybody else.

> But they should really stop commenting on software practices.

I disagree. Many of us have an emotional attachment to the way we do things and have difficulty letting go. Anthropic is showing a different way of doing things. And I am not going to judge them too harshly if the final output is good. I use Claude Code every day. And it is good. Ahead of the pack.

> Nobody on the team keeps a complete mental model of Claude Code in their head.

For sufficiently large codebases in large organization that is how it has been with humans, who come and go. In many respects, What Anthropic is doing is a massive upgrade from the status quo.

> devices but with superintelligence

Donald, is that you?

> Anthropic should create a versioning system for prompts

If LLMs were deterministic, like compilers, you would have a point.

Many of us have used Claude Code. And Codex too. These tools are essentially produced by bots. What is the quality like? I would say pretty good! Are there occasional issues in the tool itself? Yes. But more than average software produced by humans? No. Not at all. In fact I would say these tools are significantly better than average commercial software.

> Gemini 4 Argon is a new leader in Pareto-frontier. Looks like, Google is back in the race.

For chat, yes. But switch to code on the same page, and the picture changes. OpenAI takes the lead.

A password manager solves this problem. I use 1password but there are others, including open source solutions. Passkeys for me are by far the most convenient form of MFA-based authentication.

> You can put your passkey in another safe.

This! Passkeys would have been tough for me to adopt without this ability. Now passkeys are significantly more convenient that any other MFA method.