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No new money was generated, but new utility was generated.

Before cryptocurrency, there was no decentralized way to transfer value on the internet.

I assume he is referring to the uptick in stablecoin adoption. USD Stable coins are US dollar-backed cryptocurrency tokens that are intended to always hold a value of $1 USD.

Stablecoins are not backed by a central bank. Instead their source of value comes from a private company that holds actual US dollars or USD-equivalent reserves (like treasury bills, etc).

This is also my experience 80% of the time.

Now that I am used to this, the other 20% feels like a lot more work than it used to. Is it more work? No. But my expectations have changed.

Altitude is the third dimension, but I presume you knew that.

"Geography is three dimensional" doesn't correctly communicate the time dimension.

"Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience because they have to go through the output and fix its mistakes."

This has not been my experience. Sure it feels like more work to fix the AI code problems sometimes - it is a different skillset than writing code from scratch. But the speed that I can deliver software has significantly increased by using coding agents.

Has anyone found the answer to this yet?

> What is the benefit of using the Copilot Pro+ at 39$/month instead of using the Copilot Pro at 10$/month and paying for extra usage?

A "few seconds" to pay in bitcoin? So the captain is supposed to be watching for a response via email with his finger hovering over the pay button? Is the recipient address static? Surely they would use unique payment addresses if they have any hope of obfuscating payments.

This all sounds more like a TV show script than an actual thought-out plan to me.

I use YNAB. I thought about building my own now that AI coding make this feasible. But the moat that I can't cross is the integration with my bank accounts. Plaid and the like are too expensive and don't cater to one-off users like me.

Has anyone been able to find a personal financial data provider that has a reasonable price?

I think the OP is differentiating between direct human-to-human communication and building software.

While I applaud this effort for flagging AI slop generators, I would caution users to not always ignore your "foes".

Reading opposing viewpoints is so important and is becoming a lost art in our society. I encourage you to understand and empathize with people you don't agree with. It will help all of us in the long run.

The second half of that argument was not in this article. The author was just relating his experience.

For what it is worth, I have also gone from a "this looks interesting" to "this is a regular part of my daily workflow" in the same 6 month time period.

Sybil attacks are very difficult to mitigate while maintaining privacy and decentralization. I see a nod to anti-gaming in this proposal, but it does fully address this.

Why did you choose Bitcoin for this? Other blockchains can have significantly lower fees and allow the distribution of application-specific reward or governance tokens.