I've heard the same thing -- if they take a job they will lose money. What they really mean is that if they take a job (trade time for money), they will lose some of the pension they have already earned. This is a real economic loss (even if they might have a few more bucks at the end of the week) to say nothing of their lost time.
That’s a charitable read. Remember she also thought that New York would “lose millions” if Amazon put their hq2 there. Just because she’s in congress you can’t assume she understands how building a business works.
Taking your interpretation at face value I would add that yes we call it “capitalism” not “laborism”.
You're definitely burning more tokens with the back/forth and multi-step approach but assuming you swap who does the authoring from time to time you can definitely get the max out of each plan. Review doesn't use as many tokens.
I prefer having codex author plans and implement, and claude play reviwer. I do swap them from time to time and i have a lot of respect for claude 4.6 and 4.7 but for my domain I think codex does a better job with the authoring.
You can get a lot done with agentic programming without going "all in" on a gastown-like system, but I think there is a minimum viable setup:
1. an adversarial agent harness that uses one agent to create a plan and implement it, and another to review the plan and code-review each step.
2. an agentic validation suite -- a more flexible take on e2e testing.
3. some custom skills that explain how to use both of those flows.
With this in place you can formulate ideas in a chat session, produce planning artifacts, then use the adversarial system to implement the plans and the validation layer to get everything working e2e for human review.
There are a lot of tools you can use for these things but I chose to just build the tooling in the repo as I go.
How hard would it have been to create a test repo, make a branch with monolithic specs, make another branch with these scattered specs, run the same exact task against them both? Pick a few tasks. Run them a few times each. Analyze the results.
Yeah there are a lot of pathologies on both sides.
Democrats, for example, have loved to stoke the class war for the last 10+ years. Every week you hear a new take on how billionaires could solve homelessness or cancer or something if only they were taxed more. The left wing radicals are just as bad for America. Partisans hate it but the only true path out of this mess is centrism.
You really think california localities have a revenue problem? Prop 13 dos not limit property tax collection: it changes the distribution of it. It means I pay 40x more than my neighbor and that is very dumb, but whenver the city needs more revenue they just raise the rates.
You clearly have a low opinion of republicans. I do too! Where we differ is that I have a low opinion of democrats too. I see many dem partisans say how much better they are than republicans and overall I’m not seeing good governance.