I’m trying to understand what rationale could be behind this decision. America has grandly benefitted hugely from their scientific community. All the hyperscaler could build up because the engineers felt good in America. This might not kill it, but it risks it.
What could be the reason he’s doing it, how does he benefit from it, or thinks he benefits from it?
Perhaps you answered your own question. I think our confusion sometimes stems from assuming those in charge must want to benefit that which they are charged with stewarding.
It A) gives business funding that would otherwise have to give up equity to VCS or sell to PE or whatever other forms of private, for-profit funding. And B) takes away money that could go to the military or ICE or other programs that could be used to concentrate Trumps power or aggrandizement.
> America has grandly benefitted hugely from their scientific community.
Has Trump and his friend benefited from this program? No? Then this doesn't matter.
the honest answer is it's not really about science at all; its about removing independent oversight.
the "benefit" from his perspective is the same playbook trump admin has been running across every federal agency, he wants to replace independent experts with loyalists, remove checks on executive power, and redirect spending toward admin priorities.
the board members served six year terms specifically to insulate science funding from political cycles. that's a feature to everyone else and a bug to this administration.
Like there is no way in world that Gen AI is faster then an actual cracked coder shooting the exact bash/sql commands he needs to explore and writing a proper intent-communicating abstraction.
I’m thinking the difference is in order of magnitudes.
On top of that it adds context loss, risk of distraction, the extra work of reading after the job is done + you’ll have less of a mental model no matter how good you read, because active > passive.
Man it was really the weirdest thing that Claude Coded started hiding more and more changes. Thats what you need, staying closely on the loop.
I'm not sure. I have a buddy that's one of the better engineers I know personally, and he struggled to maintain an "AI Lent" for even a month. He found he just wasn't productive enough without it.
The kicker is he wasn't able to compete without the agents.
IMO this is the natural end state of LLM fueled capitalism: products skating along the razor edge between "has value under capitalism" and "is a heap of garbage" until we suddenly realize there's nothing under our feet.
That is exactly what I do. The bash script runs, determines that a code file was changed, and then is supposed to prevent Claude from stopping until the tests are run.
Claude is periodically refusing to run those tests. That never happened prior to 4.7.
My hint was at an issue in the american educational system.
I‘m sure if they could they would have shown more all americans. Especially given how important the state connection is for them to keep up their spending..
That means they struggle to find american technical presenters
What could be the reason he’s doing it, how does he benefit from it, or thinks he benefits from it?
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