I mean, the lesson from AWS has largely just been to accept it as if US-East-1 blows up, everyone is screwed anyway so you cna just shrug it off.

As is Codex

As is Claude

Yeah, just tried to switch over and now getting errors there too...

As is Grok

You know who is not being invited...Gemini

The coordinators enable extra coordination that is not worth doing. The coordination itself is the problem.

The thing is thought that business seems quite happy with the AI prompting. Business has never paid a premium for slop vs knowledge when it is good enough.

So maybe the slop-is-good-enough AI-prompting jobs all go to Elbonian teenagers?

Perhaps American college enrollment in on the brink of a 10X implosion.

Most people can’t optimize for 1-3%. Life is flooded with 1-3% choices.

Even as someone who is a credit card optimizer, I also ignore numerous 1-3% choices a day.

Many people also spend more than they can cover on it.

The results of startups flouting laws though have been such that even when faced with determined opposition, in the end they are defeated. Airbnb and Uber ran roughshod over the law and faced determined taxi commissions and groups that usually beat real estate developers.

The latest and largest Uber fine - 825 million.

https://www.reuters.com/world/dutch-regulator-fines-uber-966...

Also, in the UK, lost their 5 year battle about whether drivers are self-employed or workers for Uber.

https://www.taxiplus.co.uk/news/new-rules-for-uber-drivers-w...

Or AirBnB versus Barcelona - https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2026/06/10/barcelona-is-shutti...

The US is not the only jurisdiction - and that complexity creates an opportunity to leverage fines.

And of course the 18 billion recent Meta settlement - agreed to potentially stop a law suit that could have unravelled the whole company.

In America, solving something is to exempt the individual from the problem.

So it solves it by letting you pass the tech interview.

Do they care? Just cheat the people in the next round!

> This attitude is wrong IMO. The issue with high-profile half-baked interventions is that they distract from real unsexy solutions like grab the plastic in rivers BEFORE they make it to the ocean.

This system change nonsense is why no progress has been made on climate change for the past 2 decades.

Could have been well on the way either way solar and wind if a pile of other issues weren’t bundled into the conversation.

I've seen a ton of half baked ideas try to get implemented, which ones are we missing?