*only death is free, and that costs life* (Ditto has a one-click translate option.) View quoted note →
*...like any open-source project, the development winds up being sort of "anarcho-communist" in practice. We all get together, "do as each according to our ability", and arrive at a consensus on decisions. Nobody "owns" this. It's Zucotti Park in cyberspace. Bitcoin _itself_ on the other hand is the most real manifestation of an anarcho-capitalist economic system that was ever invented. Bitcoiners who don't understand this dialectic wind up getting forced into this sort of "siege mentality", who's going to "win?" idea.* View quoted note →
*People get frustrated at the slow speed, but stable nations don't have rapidly-changing politics. That is what makes them stable. It's also taking politicians and voters a long time to understand what is going on around them. Everything changes so fast. So, voters make mistakes that look stupid, in hindsight, but they eventually self-correct.* View quoted note →
Google DeepMind and the UK govt have just signed a partnership w/ 3 pillars: 1. transforming public services 2. accelerating scientific discovery 3. advancing AI security & resilience Concrete bits that matter: - a Gemini model trained on the UK national curriculum to support teachers & students - priority access for UK scientists to tools like AI Coscientist, AlphaEvolve, AlphaGenome & WeatherNext - AI projects with the govt. to modernise public services BUT the materials lab is possibly the MOST exciting bit: a fully automated facility, integrated with Gemini, using robotics to synthesise & characterise hundreds of materials per day. Imagine what AI + robot lab team searching for new superconductors, better solar materials, more efficient semiconductors could mean for the UK. Source: x, @jujulemons
*The Pattern Replicator To quote Richard Campbell: "Computers are amplifiers." So let's be clear: AI doesn’t improve your system. It continues it. If the pattern is clean, it scales clarity. If the pattern is broken, it scales dysfunction—beautifully formatted, semantically named dysfunction. That’s the danger. It replicates everything: Inline functions that should be services Defensive props on components that should be deleted Patterns you meant to fix later, now baked into every new line And it does it without resistance. Because the code looks right. No red flags. No typos. Just subtle misfits stacking on top of each other until you’re buried in clean, wrong logic. You used to feel it—used to wrestle with the system. Now the system slides forward like it’s on rails. And if you're not paying attention, it takes you somewhere you never meant to go.* The Vibe Coding Paradox - DEV Community
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The Vibe Coding Paradox
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*now it's trivially easy to do the “good enough” thing. It offers clean names, smart guards, reusable patterns. The five-minute path looks like the two-hour path—until you zoom out. That’s the danger. You stop noticing you’re doing triage. Because the bandages look like real skin.* The Vibe Coding Paradox - DEV Community
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The Vibe Coding Paradox
My last PR for Nudges was +96 −312, touched 38 files, and was about 90% vibe coded. And I’m confident...