In the language of marketing (in the USA at least) the word "unlimited" means "limited".

Not a universal view: Claude has added all the fun back into my job.

I am having fun as well. Using AI tools in a good and productive way is definitely a skill that is not a given, you have to learn it too.

Many engineers want nothing more than to eventually become managers. So this is not surprising. But your job is not what it was before.

Not really managers, I would put the new role more in the senior engineer / architect category. Those still have to deal with deeply technical things like design, architecture, problem decomposition, research, domain expertise, code review, collaborating with technical peers -- all of which (people) managers don't typically do.

If you ever wanted to climb the senior technical ladder, this is now the quickest way to experience it. Except instead of other people you get to work with agents which, while a very different experience, requires largely the same skills.

So yes, your job is not what it was before, but with career growth it typically was not anyway.

... but a very common one. There are always exceptions to every rule

Oh yeah? The way that you feel is the norm, and if anyone feels differently, they’re the exception? And that’s just based on… vibes?

Like we did for electronic voting?

It would be the same if commits were meaningful things. But typically they're not. The PR is the meaningful thing. A commit is something like "fix the lint error".

Random data point: I beat on Claude pretty much every day and have never run into limits of any kind.

The US was founded upon corruption and continued that tradition throughout history. It's so normalized that almost nobody recognizes it.

> an evolved trait

This is obviously not correct. There's no way to encode "you must hate and kill the tribe next door" into DNA. Clearly this behavior is emergent in the population. Perhaps what's an evolved trait is "have neurons with some mixture of properties, and response to hormones that tends to produce angry homicidal assholes in the presence of competition for resources".

Shouldn't the price therefore go down? (Bitcoin should be an instrument the price of which correlates with the cost of the energy required to make new ones).

I've yet to see any justification (not even a bogus one) for why the pardon power needs to exist in the modern world. It seems to have been invented originally as a counterbalance against corrupt or crazy judges. We have other ways to deal with that problem now.