This guy gets it.

Here's an example: I've been doing some dataabase work lately, and I'll say "Claude go figure out what migration caused X weirdness in my DB": it does so, providing me with a few sentences of readable English and a file path. I say "Claude, I have these existing migrations that alter tables A & B a certain way, can you create migrations that make similar changes to tables C & D?" It just does so.

You get the idea: I give Claude the basic gist of what I want, and tells me what I need to know, or writes the code for me. Even if I have to review and tweak the result, I'm still completing tasks orders of magnitude faster ... for $20/month. That's *nothing* like an actual junior, who costs $70k+ a year.

You really need to try actually using the tool before you assume it can't help you. To reference your own signature, don't just tell everyone your uninformed opinion: spend a few minutes to research it and educate yourself ;)

Have you tried Claude code? And what obscure domain/language are you using that you think AI won't help with?

I'm a programmer who started out hesitant about AI, and at first I thought all that it could do was auto-complete better.

Then I tried Claude Code, and it really is like having your own personal junior dev assisting you're every need. Like a junior, it makes mistakes, but using the *massive* amount of good code that it creates, and fixing what's left, is so much faster than writing it all from scratch yourself.

If you're a developer in 2025 and you're not using AI, you either have very specific concerns (ie. you can't let *anyone* else, not even an AI, see your code) ... or you're a few steps removed from being a Luddite.

No this is just tech bros bring tech bros. They don't want to enslave anyone, they just want to squeeze more productivity out by paying for their employees' dating app.

*Of course* it's idiotic, and there is tons of evidence that more hours reduces productivity ... but they are tech bros. They're in the position they're in for their ballsiness and ability to convince VCs to give them money, not for actually knowing anything about how to run a company (well).

I'm sorry, that concept was already named in 1951, by Isaac Asimov, and the correct name is "psychohistory" ;)

He's a commie, so of course rsilvergun loves him and thinks he's great.

I mean, that is really it, at the root cause level, Tick-Tock is gone (and has been for a while really) because they no longer have the people and teams in place to innovate. They lost those people really a decade ago now when they sat on their heels and were content to watch AMD struggle with their bulldozer designs and decided to stop their then very regular Tick-Tock approach that lead to the dominate the market, and instead add additional months/years between when the cadences continued to improve the manufacturing lines (the "Tick") because their technology was easily 2 generations better than their competition, and all the energy efficiencies, power usage, heating requirements showed that to be the case. This was why they dominated in the datacenters, which is where the real money is located in computing. But the rested while AMD continued to innovate, and purchase ATI, getting them a foothold in the then just emerging GPU computing space (a market space which has since kicked off the mainstream AI computing revolution)...

I believe that it really needs to add "Enshittrification" as a category/tag. Part of this very lawsuit is about the enshittrification at WP Engine, after, surprise, a private equity group bought/buyout and stripping of functionality/features all in the name of cost cutting before parting out/selling out all the rest of the company it bought. I can't think of a better example of enshittrification than this kind of behavior.

This will certainly be discussed and looked at for decades from now in the future. The missteps that have occurred and the technology advances and shifts the spelled the downfall of the once complete dominant technology company in the world that led the drive and datacenters of the internet's initial rise and expansion, only to collapse on itself due to resting on its technological lead and loss of the key internal personnel that drove their dominance in chip manufacturing and the ramifications those items had in the years to follow with the rest of the chip manufacturing world catching and surpassing Intel's once overwhelmingly dominant lead.

The hackers I mean. Stealing has consequences.

So he has something to distract his constituents from why he fled Texas when the people were freezing to death due to Abbott's and Ercot's incompetence.

Also, because the Wikiepedia article about the battle at the Alamo explicitly states, "About one hundred Texians, wanting to defy Mexican law and maintain the institution of chattel slavery in their portion of Coahuila y Tejas by seeking secession from Mexico, . . ." To him, telling the truth is "liberal" bias.

Apple had a culture of authenticity. Culture dies pretty hard in most cases. I think we will see the last of that culture dissipate, as it eroded so greatly under Cook and Ive. Then the extractive, enshittifying corruption will spread from Apple, too.

There really was something, that began with Jobs and Woz. It wasn't perfect, and Jobs had a way of twisting ethical stances in ends-justifying-means sophistry. But Steve Jobs would never have prostrated before Trump, proffering a solid gold token.

Oh fuck off. The headline is exactly correct. Something was worth X yesterday and today it's worth Y, where Y is substantially less than X.

If you had to sell right now, you would get far less than for the product than if it you sold it yesterday. Hence, erased market cap.

It's used every single day in the financial industry and is regularly quoted in headlines when a company's stock plunges.