There used to be (is...?) an xkcd IRC chatroom where you were only allowed to post things that had never been said before. Violations resulted in an n-minute ban, increasing with each violation.

Maybe this is the future of all (interesting/worthwhile) human writing. Perpetually stay one step ahead of the machines.

“I don’t care how many people die as long as my ideology wins.”

Sounds familiar.

That is when you unionize and make them do what you want.

It’s trivial to attack things in space if you also have stuff in space. Just ram your cheap satellites into the other guy’s. Do it right and the destruction will cascade.

Average personal users don't need OpenClaw at all...

I've never been more frustrated programming something than when I tried to build a non-trivial Shortcut. Things that I could have expressed in a quick script took me literal hours to compose and debug using the WYSIWYG interface. And since there's no version control, any mistake runs the risk of dislocating an element or messing up an input/output connection and breaking everything permanently.

I do enjoy reading about what the Swift team is doing. (And other folks working on the lower decks — kernel, Foundation, etc. The AI brainrot hasn't seeped down there yet.)

Actually, the outside world is in a constant state of low-grade rage at how poorly software works these days. Slop code will only accelerate this trend.

For the most part, people don’t need a thousand new features; the investment class does. Nobody gets mad at Craigslist.

> Actually, the outside world is in a constant state of low-grade rage at how poorly software works these days.

The problem is... what can we practically do? When the village fish monger 200 years ago sold shoddy fish, you could go to him, give him a few whacks with his fish, and even if the fish monger didn't improve the quality of the fish he sold in response, you at least got some kind of feeling you got justice.

Nowadays? For most of the world, those responsible for the bad software aren't in the same village any more, for 95% of the world's population the USA is on an entirely different continent. Can't do anything to hold anyone accountable, with the exception of cancelling a 5$/month subscription LOL and yelling at some poor Filipino or Indian callcenter grunt. If you're among the lucky 5% that lives in the US, sure, you can file lawsuits if the problem is egregious enough, but that's expensive and consumer protection has been gutted. And doing a copy of a plumber's brother event? Might give you people treating you like jesus-come-to-earth but in the end you'll still face capital punishment for it, if you don't get taken out by the private security of the uber rich before you can even raise your gun.

Whatever the eventual solution to the problem you raise will end up being, it is certain it will not be pretty... bottled up rage is not good for any society.

Means of production, yadda yadda… I feel a great sense of deja vu.

Is this comment LLM generated?

Have fun with 1000x more Buns that literally no one is using or maintaining. An entire software industry built on top of a burning garbage pile of crappy, dead code.

It is, that user has responded me using LLMs before…

> An entire software industry built on top of a burning garbage pile of crappy, dead code.

That has been the case for the last, oh, decade or so. Where do you think LLMs learned to slop code?

Things have been bad, but every company using its own bespoke LLM reimplementation of rsync and similar is so, so much worse.

Why would every company do it though? They'll just all be using the same (Anthropic's) AI-enabled fork.

You think Anthropic wants to be the sole maintainer of thousands of forked OSS projects...? I seriously doubt that would happen, for legal, marketing, and logistical reasons alike.

Anthropic, probably not. I could totally see Altman or even Musk deciding to do that exact thing as a showcase of sorts.