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It’s called a library. It’s free. Plus you get to say microfiche which is fun. :)

It’s not insane. They are correct that is the point of civilization which carries information from generation to generation outside the oral tradition in a systematic organized reliable way.

The point of civilisation, however loose that idea may be, if it’s anything at all, is determined by people.

Technology exists today in a way that feels like it could be defining its own path in a sense, but much like oral tradition, neither are large enough concepts to describe civilisation.


Technodeterminism is a common feeling in paradigm shifting moments. Don’t forget who is at the helm of the change.

Or for the memetics fans out there, the point of people, if it's anything at all, is determined by civilization..

Dubious. Ai psychosis is the opposite. It’s about being empowered to explore ideas much further but with a maladaptive tool designed to be an appeaser by reinforcement learning.

When was it not a cargo cult?

Qwen code has a free tier

Opencoder is bring your own model.

You get what you pay for so good luck.


You’re assuming most people using Claude code are senior engineers.

And that we're living in a post engineering world.

I think you have the law of supply and demand backwards.

The fund is called customers. The independent regulator is called the AICPA. It really comes down to who is paying attention

SOC2 is as useful as a privacy policy at protecting your data. It’s all humans following human incentives.


The value of SOC2 is that it does take some experience to be able to plausibly fake the evidence which weeds out people that truly have no idea what they're doing. It also provides a blueprint of the stuff you should be doing if you actually care.

But beyond that it's not worth a whole lot.


yeah it's funny to see some defense of this practice as "well the whole thing is pointless anyway so nothing is lost by defrauding folks". Pretty hollow argument

yes, the equivalent of looking at api spec and saying it's pointless because there's no implementation.

I feel like in the last five years all prior knowledge and art wrt infosecurity was lost from the "dev community". My guess is that hackers have an embarrassment of exploits and are being unusually quiet. I expect a series of major breaches/hacks over the next few months that are ignored and it just becomes normal to have all of your customer data dumped onto the public web. For example, the digital banking system could go under, and most kids would just download some new crypto app. It won't really matter that nothing replaces the dollar or our global banking infrastructure. The zeroing out of the financial system would just be the "coyote suddenly being affected by gravity".


It’s 2026. Reading is not the problem any more. Culling obsolence is the problem.

My laws of existence:

Business. If the customer can’t feel it it doesn’t exist.

Ops. If it isn’t automated it doesn’t exist.

Product. If it isn’t documented it doesn’t exist.

Engineering. If it isn’t in code it doesn’t exist.

You have an opinion about security? Have you written a linter? Is it documented? Is it in the deployment pipeline? Do customers care?

If it’s only in your brain I don’t accept it and refer you back to the existence rules.


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