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"Efficient"? Nobody believes that the sourcing is more efficient. It's the profit-margin which the government doesn't need which makes the difference, they can be significantly less efficient and still beat "investors" who have shareholders to pay.

What are you talking about.

If your argument is strong, you don't need crutches like "imagined future" here. Nothing has to be imagined.

For most of us, as much as we enjoy making clever things, without the context of a job there aren't that many fun problems we have time to engage with.

It matters because doing so used to be worthwhile economically. Now it is exclusively a part-time for people who have time to do it for fun.

Language evolves. What is certainly true is that the scribal class of people who could program has had its gates of entry almost deleted, and people, without sacrificing a meaningful part of their available time, can build tools to solve their problems.

To me, this is democratization.

Sure anyone could have, but that's always a scale.

Metaphors are easy to disagree with if you don't attempt to understand what they are used to try to communicate.

System one was an attempt to distinguish the "thinking" of thinking models (which is more akin to system two thinking with deliberate arguing/building up a decision) from fast instinctive thinking. It's a really good metaphor for the kind of trade-off or use case this applies to.

It is not and was never implying that it is a replacement for all human system one thinking activities.

> Heck, it is even false for me as a software engineer.

Amen

Honestly, the gap from knowing which command line tool you probably need, to the command that does what you need... Prior to AI I have replicated probably a thousand command line capabilities in Ruby because I just couldn't be bothered.

On raw coverage of 5g, only a few much denser countries are better. You live in basically the best 4g and 5g covered, sparsely populated country on earth :) most countries are not just further behind.

I've never known in a shorter time that a CEO is too defensive to be a business partner faster.

You're gonna be shocked how many input fields do this for various UX features :)

>still write bad code unless my colleagues and the people who submit PRs

It's interesting you feel comfortable to comment with such authority on the capability of a tool you don't even use... Lisp is a bad programming language because my 10 year old brother wrote some really bad stuff, btw!

A big influence for modern js is chained enumeration, like forEach

Wouldn't you just do elixir now? It's like erlang but even wilder.

I think smalltalk and erlang are so interesting because they model the idea of small computers so differently.

Lisp just feels like the purest way to understand what the units of a programming language really is.

Don't think it has to be, if you are mindful of it. Ai uses fewer dependencies usually, as it doesn't mind rewriting things, and you can easily add scans and sanity checks to your sdlc

I think calling opencode the trend is naive. This not what is being run on company time.