Firefox doesn't seem to like your website. I get an insecure connection warning.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

Works on chrome though

Debian isn't known for being bloated so I don't get what the selling point here is. If I want a stripped down barebones system why not just use Arch?

We need more creative names for rust packages because this is going to cause confusion

There's already Oxide computers https://oxide.computer/ and Oxc the JS linter/formatter https://oxc.rs/.

Ruby was forward thinking enough to give libraries bizarre pet names that had no obvious connection to their functionality.

Pundit, Capybara, Bullet, Grape, Faraday...

Yeah, we're running out of ways to spell oxide (^_^)

Not to sound harsh, but it sounds like you're greenfielding most projects and don't have to worry about collaborating with a large dev team or onboarding new developers which is a luxurious position to have. It's been the exact inverse for me where getting up to speed or maintaining a python codebase is exhausing and maintaining rust/go/typescript projects has been much less of a burden.

Any time I've worked on a python codebase with 3 or more people on a reasonably sized project, it turns into a mess than becomes much more of a cognitive load than any compiled language. Here are my experiences:

- numerous lsp errors and warnings that drown out real bugs and issues (no one is null checking in python, or correctly typing their functions beyond the primitive types)

- hodgepodge of tools like conda, python version <= 3.5, etc. required for project (because one person refuses to migrate to uv)

We've seen the exact opposite trend of what you've said. Typescript has surged in popularity because the quality of LLM output scales with context, and untyped languages like python/JS leave most of that context out that no machine can parse. These tools do not reason. They are token generators. Pure functions. Some outputs have more weight than others.

Not a FAANG engineer but also working at a pretty large company and I want to say you're spot on 1000%. It's insane how many "commenters" come out of the woodwork to tell you you're doing x or y wrong. They may not even frame it that way, but use a veneer of questions "what is your process like? Have you tried this product, etc." as a subtle way of completely dismissing your shared experience.

I find your comment disingenuous at best.

> The internet was not a bastion of high quality content or discourse pre-AI.

I have read thousands upon thousands of pages of AI-related discourse, watched hundreds of videos since 2022, maybe even a thousand now on it. NEVER at any point in time did people opine for the "high quality" internet of before. They opined for the imperfect HUMAN internet of before. We are now seeing once pristine, curated corners of the internet being infected with sloppypasta.

This is quite a broad brush to paint the internet with. It's like saying The Earth is not a bastion of warzones/peaceful places to live. That is HIGHLY dependent on location.

Sorry, not related to your point, but the language:

To "opine" is to give an opinion on something.

To "pine" for something is to wish for it, usually in a nostalgic sense.

I get how the two are related and can be confused, especially when you're talking about comments on the web. Just thought I'd clarify.

Even before AI, the human social internet was loaded with bots and disingenuous actors. You want the imperfect human internet that is also pristine and curated. I've been socializing on the internet since 1994, and I feel fairly confident in sharing that this never existed, except in nostalgia.

If that's what you're pining for, you're going to have to find a highly protected part of the internet that is walled off from untrusted actors. However, that's always been the solution, and AI doesn't change that.

And since the foundation of the internet, the correct response to bots and disingenuous actors has been to a) ignore them b) ban them and c) ostracize then. We're talking about basic behaviors that have been understood since Usenet, something you surely should be aware of since you grew up in that era.

I absolutely agree with this. We did not tell bot operators to "do better" like this manifesto is trying to do, which is my whole point.

A camera doesn't use unlicensed IP from other sources to produce an image. The makers of the camera explicitly gave you a right to own the photograph taken with the parts used to assemble the camera.

If you're concerned about the amount of RAM, this isn't the laptop for you. Grandma doesn't need 16GB to browse Facebook and look at family photos.

I'm actually glad they restricted the memory, because it will create market pressure for devs to stop wasting system resources on bloated electron apps and NextJS. With RAM prices skyrocketing these days people need to be more conscious of how much system resources they're taking up.

If your "market pressure" worked we wouldn’t be in this situation to begin with.

I've grown to hate using python in production since LLMs have been around. Python cannot enforce minimum standards like cleaning up unused variables, checking array access, and properly typing your functions. There's a number of tools built to do this but none of them can possibly replace a compiler.

Compiled languages like Go and Rust are my new default for projects on the backend, typescript with strict typing on for the frontend, and I foresee the popularity growing the more LLM use grows. The moment you let an LLM loose in a Javascript/Python codebase everything goes off the rails.

Are you working for 3x less the time compounding monthly?

Are you making 3x the money compounding monthly ?

No?

Then what's the point?

Yes and yes.

Okay, teach me how, then? I would also like to work 3× less and make 3× more.

People keep impatiently expecting proof from builders with no moat. It's like that Upton Sinclair quote.

Start a software business, presumably.

You say that as if it’s impossible but there are several indie makers that have gone from $10 MRR to $600k MRR over the past 8 months.