You are either completely uneducated on world history or willfully ignorant.
There is no limit on how far back the clock is allowed to turn.
Things that will be targeted:
* homosexuals (often the first)
* non whites
* interracial marriage
* voting rights
* voting right for women
* women’s suffrage
* education for girls
* no fault divorce
* freedom of speech
* freedom of mobility (like to leave the country)
* trade unions / labor unions
* Freemasons (Oddfellows, etc)
* practicing a religion other than Christianity
* environmental regulations
* public lands, federal parks
* etc etc etc
Look not to China or North Korea for the operating model but East Germany during the Cold War. There was a massive surveillance operation in place then and technology has only improved.
Freedom is not guaranteed and for most of human history was not a goal.
To clarify, I agree the issue is "cheap labor," not "talent." My previous comment was built on that premise.
I was pointing out that capital seeking lower wages is a standard economic outcome and my surprise was directed at how often folks in the tech industry seem caught off guard by basic profit-maximizing behavior. That's just what companies do and they are expected to do so.
Regarding the value of studying economics: it provides the exact framework needed to see past corporate PR. When companies claim they are offshoring for "talent," basic economics gives you the analytical tools to quickly recognize that the real motivation is reducing labor costs.
> They're going to send the jobs where the wages are cheaper, and that's exactly what they're doing.
I read these sentiments, and I honestly don’t understand the tone. This kind of behavior is exactly what you’d expect after taking just a few introductory undergraduate economics courses.
Free markets are predicated on the free movement of capital and labor, and American companies being able to go overseas for cheaper labor is exactly what they're going to do unless there are laws preventing that. When we have laws keeping jobs in one place they get called "regulation."
Generally speaking, I’m really shocked at how uneducated people are — programmers in particular — about how the labor market works, how the economy works, or how anything in the real world works, really.
There's a reason studying humanities is valuable - history, philosophy, economics, etc. It clues you in that when someone wants to exploit you, it's usually based on well-established precedent.
> The more radical possibility is that source code as we know it could become a transient
artifact, generated on demand and never stored. The retreat was divided on this. Some
saw source code disappearing within a decade. Others argued that deterministic
validation requires a stable artifact to test against, and that artifact is effectively source
code regardless of what we call it.
Here’s a free idea I’ve had that I have no idea how to implement. I hope somebody much smarter than me will come along, think it’s a great idea, and steal it. I highly encourage you to do so, and I wish you well.
The idea is to have some kind of substrate—like a superpowered AST—that is the true code: the thing that actually gets compiled and run. Humans never look at this directly. Instead, we look at a representation of this code, and we can toggle between different representations of it.
I’m borrowing ideas from topology in mathematics here: if I look at a shape one way, I should be able to transform it into a different shape, but isomorphically, everything is still the same. That would let me look at the same thing in different ways, understand it from different angles, critique it more easily, and maintain it more easily.
Gemini tell me that this idea has already been tried in the past? Projectional Editing? Intentional Programming?
I guess it was just a poetic riff on Tinder for AI agents. It seems like one of the more profound questions around AI and the singularity. One AI gaining sentience would be a big deal, for sure, but two self-aware AIs that could produce an offspring — that would be quite something.
I think this is a really fun project, but even more importantly, I believe it’s a portent of things to come.
I really leaned into coding with agents last year, and after some time, it became evident to me that the vision now being pushed -- the "software factory" -- is where things will eventually end up. Building off that understanding, I began thinking about what interfaces would be necessary and useful for managing code and technology at that scale.
I keep coming back to the idea of a video game-like interface for managing all these agents and fleets of agents. Many of the information affordances in video games are reusable in other scenarios. So even though on the surface this project is 'just' a silly and fun enhancement, I think it’s actually a pretty serious contribution as well.
"Vibe coding" is good for describing a certain style of coding with AI.
"Automatic programming" is what I get paid for in my 9-5, things have to work and they have to work correctly. Things I write run in real production with real money at stake. Thus, I behave like an adult and a professional.
It’s strange but common. I love the music of Miles Davis and consider him a genius. I also give him a pretty poor review in terms of his behavior as a human being.
A Steve Yegge blog post was made to be shortened with AI. :)
I think Gas Town looks interesting directionally and as a PoC. Like it or not, that's the world we'll end up in. Some products will do it well and some will be horrible monsters. (Like I'm already dreading Oracle Gas Town and Azure Gas Town).
I think the Amp coding agent trends in the direction of Gas Town already. Powerful but expensive, uses a mix of models and capabilities to do something that's greater than the sum of the parts.