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More like people were forced to use systemd and gave up due to lack of choice, along with an entire generation not old enough to know SysVinit.

The AI verification is not "handled structurally".

The vast majority of my tokens don't go into the authoring -- they go into review iterations. And the problem is that many reviews don't converge, and even the ones that do, can do it slowly, with drift and leave a residue.

Reviews don't converge when the premise is flawed. You can put tripwires to try to catch this, but it's not a robust process. Agents will generally try to act on a flawed premise, especially when they can't foresee the long-term consequences of the axioms under which they are operating.

Reviews drift because the author and reviewer influence each other to depart from the original problem statement. This is also correlated with unbounded scope creep and slop. Again, one can put tripwires to detect this and escalate but agents are extremely creative at finding new ways to ruin your day.

The only way to stay sane with Claude is to use Fable. I let Fable spawn Opus review agents but I won't chat with Opus, and I won't let Opus write code.

I thought I could use Opus 4.6 but I gave up on it too. From a prose perspective it's much better than Opus 4.8 or 5. But it's still very verbose and Fable is dramatically more capable.

I'm sure folks from Anthropic love this conclusion because this setup is extremely expensive.

We doesn't need a signed affidavit on GitHub to trigger an investigation.

This already crossed the line of reasonable suspicion. The investigation is where evidence gets collected.

Who knows what other improper behavior these people have engaged in and what other secrets they have leaked, intentionally or by side effect.

When negligence is so bad that it looks like sabotage from a hostile agent, then criminal investigations are needed to learn more about the people who did it, the others who enabled it, and deter similar future acts.

DOGE did a lot of bad things, but it didn't force anyone to commit credentials to a repo, disable scanners to get away with it, and then make the repo public.

In 2026, storing government credentials in a repo and not having scanners to flag it should be investigated. I am highly suspicious of anyone doing this in a professional capacity. If I worked at a foreign intelligence agency and saw this, I would first think it's a honeypot, and an unimaginative one because it's so lacking in subtlety.

Speaking as a non-expert, I think Pix has much bigger scope. Pix is account-to-account. One can buy real estate, pay bills, make person-to-person and business-to-business transactions, government payments, recurring payments. The funds also settle instantly.

Most people don't experience the full scope of Pix which is impressive.

I think we need to put this in context for folks who are not from Brazil.

Comparatively, a domestic bank wire in Brazil before Pix was already easier and faster than one in the US today. I don't recall the bank fees being bad either.

The issue is that bank wires were never designed for buying lunch at the food court. They're not instant and not user friendly to set up.

Pix is alien technology next to the stuff we have in the US.

My understanding is that FedNow could become something like Pix, but implementation is voluntary. In Brazil, the central bank required all retail banks of significance to implement Pix by a certain deadline.

Visa and Mastercard are very much against FedNow becoming widely used, as it would destroy their business.

Calling the F-35 a masterpiece is rage-bait.

The primary goal of this program is not to make a plane, it's to spend $2 trillion in military contracts. As a side effect, it runs as a jobs program for engineers and its US based supply chain. Technology gets developed but with a super low ROI.

xv is my favorite image viewer of all time. I loved how it launched immediately and made it very easy to see an image or browse a folder right from the command-line. 20 years later, computers are dramatically faster and such a fundamental task has become unbearably laggy.

Tesla body work is extremely expensive. Aluminum, extensive welding instead of fasteners, substantially reduced modularity due to castings, specialized tooling just off the top of my mind.

Elon can't legally financially entangle Tesla to SpaceX due to Tesla being a public company, so his hands are tied.

Tesla is clearly benefiting from protectionism and its sales would collapse if BYD were allowed to openly sell in the US. Most people just want affordable, maintainable and reliable cars.

Because it looks like Elon recognized Tesla's inability to compete against BYD and gave up making cars. This is negative.

Since he couldn't leave it at that, he announced a pivot to a product that doesn't exist. This is also negative.