I have lots of thoughts about this. First, go read Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan, it's chock full of why AI in the hands of government is such a problem.

Personally, Anthropic's AI diagnosed a problem during the summer of 2025 that's kept me out of the workforce since 2007- I acquired mast cell activation syndrome thanks to Lyme disease. Now there are a metric crapload of people who've got it due to COVID19, and it's incredibly grim. I've got a relatively mild case - prior to treatment I'd get what looked like a narcolepsy episode in response to eating anything. There are a cluster of mostly women with EDS/POTS and I marvel that they are still alive, because I would not be, given what they face.

I built an app to track my health with Garmin fitness monitor, Apple HealthKit, it'll get reports from Labcorp, and most important of all it's got an internal library. The system will pull stuff from Office of Dietary Supplements, from PubMed Central, and a few other "peer reviewed & meant for doctors" web sites. Being able to constrain what Claude Desktop says by making it use the MCP server has dramatically improved its accuracy.

So ... AI as an assistant is fabulous, but in the government's hands it produces offensive nonsense. I need a benzo if I'm getting in an MRI machine. Oh holy shitkitties, I must be a drug addict, two diazepam months ago have created a continuing train wreck in my care. They issued me Narcan with the little Tramadol prescription I've had for twenty years. I gave it to a couple guys trying to revive one of their friends in the Tenderloin last summer. OH SHIT SHIT SHIT drug addict, the day after I tried to refill it the system started nagging me about my overdue HIV screening.

My doctor gets that I'm a juvenile delinquent with an AARP card, and the only pussy in my life is this obstreperous tuxedo cat that's developed a hobbit like attachment to second breakfast, but the all knowing panopticon? It's delusions would be a lot more amusing if they didn't have a direct impact on my life.

If it's a toss-up between a de-facto Chinese takeover or a de-facto Israeli takeover, then the question is not what the resignation is trying to distract from, the question is why a vital strategic manufacturer is being taken over by a foreign power at all.

(Obviously, there's good reasons for a foreign power to want to have absolute leverage over how US businesses work. Whether those foreign powers are "hostile" or "benign" is irrelevant there and so of absolutely no consequence to the discussion. What matters is that the US should not place critical industries, on which essentially all other parts of their economy have become utterly dependent, in the hands of anyone not subject to US scrutiny or US law. As it stands, I dislike how corporations work, boards have accountability to nobody outside themselves and majority shareholders - which are also usually themselves. That's not an effective system.)

I'd certainly investigate the entire corporation. If the guy is abusing his position of authority (which means that any "consent" given is a fiction) and the employees actively support this, then there's a good chance that the behaviour is rampant in the company.

There is, however, a flip-side. He's undoubtedly led the company to produce some superb products and has pushed them in a well-identified direction. Far more so than virtually any other US corporation. There's very obviously something about his personality and mindset that is actually wanted to have a successful business, and this something is lacking within much of the western business community.

Basically, much of the western world is stuck in Harvard MBA Land, and companies operating under such principles invariably collapse from complete incompetence. They're popular because those with MBAs are usually brash, arrogant, controlling, dominant, and abusive - typical sociopathic traits - and sociopaths in the boardroom tend to be very good at producing stable management structures and very high stock returns. Just not successful busineses. But who cares, if you get rich?

This does not mean we need more sex offenders or Chinese spies running US megacorps. It means we need to find out exactly what in his attitude allowed him to identify successful patterns, we have no reason to want or desire any other aspects of the guy.

Should we email Microsoft and advise them on how to install Linux and FreeBSD on their servers?

is CEO. An AI CEO will never sexually harass anyone. It won't hire his stupid cousin to run the marketing department. It won't make a fool of the company on national TV trying to hide his affair from the jumbotron. It won't sell $7.5 billion dollars worth of GPUs to China because some woman tugged it off in the coat closet. It'll simply provide straight-forward business direction using best practices and rational decision making at the best of its ability given the quality of the prompts, every time. Instead of aiming to put creative workers out of their jobs and failing, point those AIs at executive positions and you'll hit the mark. And think of how much money you'll save on clawing back those golden parachutes, too!

I got involved in social media for politics starting in 2008. Things were "as bad as it gets" toxic in terms of 4chan cretins by 2010 and by 2012 there were obvious signs of nation state activity. Now, eighteen years after I started, I've got a precedent setting 1st Amendment case with my name on it, I live in this weird little protective program California offers, since one of my codefendants was murdered, and that case remains unsolved. If you Google "Rauhauser vs. McGibney" you'll find an endless rabbit hole excavated by clever hackers & lawyers vs. judicial corruption in Texas. I'm easily reached online if you'd like to see the affidavit from an FBI agent about McGibney being an informant. And this all flowed entirely from Twitter slap fights.

These days I've got a Twitter account again, briefly, because I want just one phone call with 420chan founder Aubrey Cottle, now that he's out of prison for the hit he did on the Texas GOP back in 2021. It's just NealR in hex, come on Kirt, gimme a ring :-)

And once that call is done I go back to the ONLY place I engage online - Reddit. I do get the occasional precocious windowlicker every now and then, but mostly it's got health related information, and a good supply of cat photos.

How much has your government money grown in that time?

Illegal doesnâ(TM)t mean I donâ(TM)t have the right to record, tho. Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.

Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.

If it doesn't, it has no real value.

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

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Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

If you ask a bare LLM to do stuff you'll get a mess. I run Claude code with a multipart harness that compels the model to treat the code as the mathematical thing it is, not human prose. LSP Enforcement Kit keeps low capability tools like grep out of the mix, Abstract Syntax Tree things handle the code as its meant to be understood, so that's CodeSight, OptiVault, Serena. About a year ago I gave Antigravity the boot after their awful 2.0 release and went back to JetBrains IDEs, which now offer code structure wise MCP services. Code review with the Ponytail skill chases away LLM excesses, and there's a smattering of other stuff like that in the mix. And then you hunt for whatever additional guardrails you can get the LLM to apply systemically.

I've evolved my own higher level project methods and they're comparable in a lot of ways to what Matt Pocock offers, but his stuff is more structured, more carefully considered, and I have to work with others now, after a long time solo. I'm taking his stuff, implementing a Kanban/wiki system, Gitlab CE, and NanoClaw for anyone who wants agents. I expect quite the slog between now and New Years, but in 2027 we're gonna stop trudging and start gliding over the landscape.