Does it come with a secret blocklist?

So you don’t code and you like pithy nonsense.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Typing in full sentences does not make me an llm.

This isn’t tesseract. I’m allowed to have (professional, informed) opinions.

LLMs are not going to replace a large number of people.

But they are very helpful, especially in coding. If you’re not using LLMs in normal business development, you’re going to fall behind.

It’s made me a significantly faster developer, largely that a lot of the tedious work feels less tedious, and my projects are more polished.

You just can’t vibe too much or you’ll come out with an unmaintainable mess. There’s a difference between using these tools responsibly and just producing slop.

Alternatively, gather the IP addresses of family and use your reverse pretty to restrict some subdomains to that trusted list of IPs.

The downside is that when someone’s IP changes you have to update. Make sure you track which IP belongs to which person.

How long ago did you buy that? Because things have changed.

This is what it sounds like when people defend the Steam monopoly btw.

Yeah, that’s pretty dated. There’s one flavor of dotnet (more or less) that runs on everything, and it’s about as efficient as anything with a garbage collector can be.

There are hairs that could be split in there, such as the release cadence, hosting bundle vs desktop runtime, but that’s all much simpler than it used to be. You generally know if you want to run a desktop app vs a webserver.

dotnet is pretty great, runs great on Linux, and you can ship your executable without a need for an external framework if you want.

Dotnet is also open source, a strongly typed language, a large standard library so it doesn’t have the problems of npm, has great performance and is all around the best language out there imo.

Use rust if you need to be closer to the metal, but that’s rare.

Yeah, but you’ll probably figure it out eventually.

Man, we all kind of had this in mind, but what an incredible reference.

AI is useful; it just doesn’t replace people.

I wouldn’t say “pure” theatre. I think the demands were serious while also being a common sense PR move that would also motivate (or not demotivate) their employees.

But they were supposed to just be easy to agree to. “Okay, yeah, we’ll have an overseer on the murder bots, and we won’t use it to spy on Americans.” Even with an optional wink wink nudge nudge, it still mostly works for Anthropic’s PR.

It was supposed to be a layup, and the administration airballed it.

Which was revealed when Anthropic made their very simple demands and the administration threw a tantrum.

1. No fully autonomous murder; a human must make the final decision.

2. No domestic mass surveillance.

Pretty simple demands that should have been easy to agree to.

Then you’re waiting forever on vulnerability patches. Especially if there are layers, and each layer waits to update.

Larger standard libraries do a lot. It’s a lot harder to sneak vulnerabilities into the basic C# or Java or C++ libraries than it is to add a vulnerability to something one dude maintains in the javascript ecosystem.

And since javascript libraries tend to be so small and focused, it’s become standard practice for even other libraries to pull in as many of those as they want.

And it stacks. Your libraries pull in other libraries which can pull in their own libraries. I had a project recently where I had maybe a dozen direct dependencies and they ended up pulling in 1,311 total libraries, largely all maintained by different people.

In a more sane ecosystem like C#, all the basics like string manipulation, email, or logging have libraries provided by Microsoft that have oversight when they’re changed. There can be better, third-party libraries for these things (log4net is pretty great), but they have to compete with their reputation and value over the standard library, which tends to be a high bar. And libraries made on top of that system are generally pulling all those same, certified standard libraries. So you pull in 3 libraries and only one of those pulls in another third party single library. And you end up with 4 total third party libraries.

Javascript just doesn’t really have a certified standard library.

(This certified standard library doesn’t have to be proprietary. Microsoft has made C# open source, and Linus Torvalds with the Linux Kernel Organization holds ultimate responsibility for the Linux kernel.)

That’s what I was here to post.

Because they want to get every single nickel and dime they can out of each and every one of us.

But ci/cd though