> Perhaps there’s some kind of conservation law here: Any increases in programming speed will be offset by a corresponding increase in unnecessary features, rabbit holes, and diversions.
Great explanation for what I see when I mess around with coding LLMs. The natural human instinct of “this feels complicated, let me think about it some more” is suppressed. So far all the gains from the stunning initial speed have been cancelled out later in the project, arising from the over-engineered complexity baked into the code.
edit: /s to clarify. He's destroying relationships that were made over tens if not hundreds of years. The only upside to this is that us Europeans finally realize that dependency on foreign software is idiotic.
It's weird how when we consider American tech it's a given that "dependency on foreign x" is not only bad, but the people who do it are actual idiots.
But when any American says we need to stop China from subsuming x industry it's castigated as racist xenophobia where the old white men need to accept that the free market defeated them.
I've been somewhat in favor of more protectionist movements in the US myself... maybe not everything the way Trump is executing, but a lot of the meaning behind it. I'm more than happy to see other countries do more of the same, in this case the Netherlands.
There's more to domestic security than just the military... COVID should have been a shining example of why domestic supplies of anything that can be considered essential infrastructure should never be zero... I'd say it shouldn't ever be less than 50 percent if at all possible.
I'll give more leeway for open source software that runs essential infrastructure, as that can be forked and domesticated if necessary... and there should be some infrastructure and planning to support that.
While not every country can operate as independently as larger countries like the US, there should definitely be an eye towards domestic supply, infrastructure and independence that I think too many have fallen into a globalist mindset that detracts in a lot of ways and belies human nature in favor of a few elites.
> Monitors are ‘highly likely’ to be used to gain access to a network for espionage purposes, disruption or financial gain, with mitigations often costly and inefficient.
OpenCode Zen is a great way to try different models for code generation. Pay $20 one time and switch between models effortlessly.
For my use case this revealed Kimi 2.5 to be excellent and insanely affordable. I believe it’s also the foundation for Cursor’s own model, so they’re doing something right.
The core insight that enterprises select products on familiarity over anything else, is valuable. I’m going to keep it in mind for future customer engagements.
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