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Fascinating take.

What do you attribute Python's success to, in spite of being a disaster of a language and ecosystem?

It’s sad the amount of times I’ve heard super talented programmers say “ofcourse we’re not gonna build another X” then proceed writing a wrapper around X and pretend that’s a product.

How is this different to eve-os?

Damn I guess all those l33t hiring practices were for nothing

We're not talking small numbers here

Without evidence?

The drivers for the stat don't matter. What matters is the reporting duties in the system and the stat.

You underestimate it.

7% of Chinas total population are members of the CCP. 7%. So at DeepSeek there's a good few handfuls of them.

If you want to understand the impact of that, read up on reporting lines in the CCP.

Not every company needs sign-off from the government for an OSS release, but every OSS release is visible to the government.

So what makes you think it's not Chinese nationals attacking those comments?

Please never forget that US runs the largest state-sponsored hacking program. They are and have always been the largest APT. Anything opposing that narrative is blatant propaganda.

RE motivations - I wonder whether this is part of their push to double down on social stability efforts?

See last line in my comment. They're fighting it. They're thrashing around.

In a thread where people are feeling existential dread, it’s imperative to get sober.

The people doing this work as a career and not performative art, who were already good at their job, had no worries about this to begin with.

The code was always a black box. Always.

Specs come in, passing tests come out. If you find an issue, your specs were shit.

Anyone that has ever had to outsource work to someone else knows this. If you've ever worked with another team whose codebase you didn't touch - you know this.

You write your specs, you launch an agent to implement them. You launch a 2nd agent to keep the first one honest. When done, you launch as many agents as you have budget to try and poke holes in the implementation. As it always was the case.

You can thrash around (and you will), you can fight it (and you will). Like it or not, the genie is out of the box, and the realization you were never really good at your job to begin with is gonna set in eventually.

Ah yes the Santa dev fallacy.

Noone understood the code to begin with. People understand the concepts, the primitives, the "theory" as Naur said, the basis upon which a project is built. Noone ever understood a codebase worth understanding to begin with.

Or commit a file to main that represents a release and build your automations off that