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The vast majority of websites don't need Next.js or React. Those are only useful if you need dynamic and modular updates within the structure, or state management. We've defaulted to React because of the name recognition and simple intertia. It's not a good framework for websites in general.

This is precisely what Metro Silicon Valley (Formerly San Jose Metro) is doing. If you look in the back you see many the ads that are being talked about. The same ads are not listed online.

I kept a dev blog going 2015-2025. I put effort into long form explainers instead of bite sized content. It was fulfilling and paid off with a fair amount of Google first page results. I had consistent traffic to a few posts about building synthesizers. Now, the traffic has evaporated and is 99% bot traffic. Most of that is from China and Indonesia. I have no doubt that it is scraping for LLM model training. I quit blogging.

Messaging queues and brokers. RabbitMQ, BullMQ, etc. Simple services, but I've learned to keep them on their own images so they recover fast and don't compete with other resources.

No. None of the coders are overwhelmingly pro-ai. But, all are learning it and ramping up. The GenX money people are 100% into AI now. They are the same people who always had "an great idea for an app you should make." We have seen multiple waves of technology appear and then get exploited and collapse. Personally, I think coding is the least interesting use of these things. If I was independently weathly I would point AI at pesticide reduction in farming, water management and distribution, and drug addiction mitigation through chemistry.

I don't think they are in denial. I think they just don't care about public sentiment. American capitalism has proven over and over that people who hate you will still buy your product, at a premium.

When I tell friends or family I just got a job in AI, they look at me with sympathy and disgust, as if I had told them I have gonorrhea. Nobody says "congratulations."

One of the most compelling takes on Lascaux is that it isn't art. It's not about idealization, worship, beauty, or being human. It was made by hunters to get closer to their prey. They wanted to become the deer and the buffalo to know them better, so they could ultimately become better hunters of them. Herzog made that point in "Cave of Forgotten Dreams".

We were told the quality of paper mattered and that the envelope should have the same high-end watermark that the resume sheet had. Inkjet printed resumes were discouraged because the quality back then was low and the resolution made anti-aliasing on the type come out weird. Laser printed only, please.

And that is how you handle things like this. He ponied up and took the hit. More importantly, he gave the back story. After years of reading so many circular psuedo-responsibility posts (by others) trying to squirm out of awkward situations, it's refreshing to see his thoroughness.