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As a career? Almost certainly not but I do think I (and probably many others on hn) would still do it as a hobby

As a few others have said Plaid is actually rather cheap if you only have a handful of accounts. I created my own personal finance tracker when Intuit Mint shut down and Plaid costs me $1.80 per month for all my linked accounts which feels very reasonable to me

There are some studios who do this already (A24 for example who have produced a number of relatively popular films). But agreed that the big studios have focused on sequels and formulaic content for the most part

This is essentially the definition for complexity that Ousterhout argues for in the book A Philosophy of Software Design. I highly recommend reading it if you haven’t, it’s very good.

Which part of Michigan are you in? I know some people that live up in northern Michigan where they don't bother salting the roads in the winter and just put down sand instead which I would imagine contributes to better longevity

To me these blog posts seem more like a company that wants to differentiate itself from openAI and others by putting out high quality technical content to be consumed by developers so that they stay top of mind and seem more tech focused

Any executive who is fully bought in on the AI hype could see someone in their org recommending this as working against their interest and take action accordingly.