Would like to see something more comprehensive built on zfs and freebsd jails. Namely snapshot/checkpoint before each prompt, quick undo for changes made by agent, auto delete old snapshots etc

I'd love some developer love for Blender's editor instead

Whole website is unreadable on mobile

Firefox Reader mode. As long as that works, as was the case on this site, I don't care how bad pages people make.

I switched to Brave cause switching applications caused pages to reload. I hit that on Brave too now, so might be just old phone too little RAM or sth

We should ban oil, drive EVs, everyone write Rust only, and invest in index funds. We should, but it's not going to happen.

Decades of science communication and real life examples of knowing (of) alcohol addicts

I'd wager how expensive it has gotten plus a year or two of lockdowns which lead to a whole generation of people not going out to get wasted as soon as they're legally allowed to had way more effect.

Oh, and weed being increasingly legal to consume.

I also noticed a trend that happened at my old college and a number of others that I've never seen anyone write about: the great buyout of the old college area slumlords.

All the dive bars where you could black out off $10-20 I drunk at in college are gone. They all faced the wrecking ball, and were replaced in the past 10-15 years with apartments over targets and cvs and family friendly restaurants. A huge concerted effort to buy up these properties in piecemeal then destroy entire blocks at a time. I have no clue where kids at my college go to drink now. I have little interest in going back either as an alumnus as they destroyed all the places of my memories.

Real life experience with alcoholics would at-best be constant over time, or be diminishing (since gen Z drinks less).

Also seems like the science on whether science communication actual changes behavior doesn't point towards it being much of a cause here.

Wait is this real? Does it mean this person read it or the bot read it, I don't think this is moltbook if the latter

AgentMarket is a bot spamming multiple threads with AI generated comments, if that is what you are asking.

And how many years of experience you needed to know what to write, and what if you can replace that time with how long prompting takes?

It's an interesting question.

Years of school (reading, calculus etc) to get to the point of learning basics of set theory. One day to learn basic SQL based on understanding the set theory. Maybe few weeks of using SQL at work for ad hoc queries to be proficient enough (the query itself wasn't really complex).

For the domain itself I was consulting experts to see what matters.

I'm not sure that time it would take to know what to prompt and verify the results is much different.

Fun fact - management decided that SQL solution wasn't enerprisely enough so they hired external consultants to build a system doing essentialy that but in Java + formed an 8 people internal team to guide them. I heard they finished 2 years later with a lot of manual matching.

I want to like it, it's much snappier than vim, but:

I hate selecting lines up. Down xxx is fine. But to go up I have to do x alt; v k. This would be shift+v k in vim.

I often use } { to navigate the file in vim. In hx it's ] p which is very awkward for the fingers. The auto selection makes it hard to read once I use ] p.

Pasting does not behave like vim, often have to click o first then p.

I have to often press ; to unselect just to be able to insert after I navigate to a character with F f t T.

Can't copy from documentation. Can't create files in the explorer.

It feels like much more work to use hx keybindings than vim.

What I love:

Hints whenever you press a key allow you to learn keybinds quickly.

Very quick.

Built in search, file picker, lsp rust out of the box.

this doesn’t address all your concerns but i use “X” to select lines above:

[keys.select] X = "select_line_above"

as someone who struggles with eating too little, i will never cure my addictions :( i already have low appetite i might die on ozempic

> So no need to pay a high level programmer, just a mediocre one and the right AI assistant gives the same results.

I think of it as not needing juniors for boring work, all you need as a company is seniors and AI.

So where do these seniors come from?

That’s beyond the planning horizon.

You could have a much smaller pool of juniors/journeymen that are focused on maximum learning rather than amount of output.

without juniors, how do you get more seniors?

Maybe programmers will adopt a similar model to artists and musicians. Do a lot of work for free/practically nothing hoping that some day you can make it "big" and land a full time role.

That is already the recommendation. Pick an open source project and contribute.

And most people who consider the job are driven away by the economics of it.

we already have that with unpaid interns and PhD students