Their user base has been growing constantly. McArdle is a fucking hack.

Uhhhh try paying attention to the world around you. It's neither.

People with dementia are ill, not stupid.

If all it takes is Matt Damon saying "spend your money on this", you deserve whatever stupid thing happens to you.

There are supposedly intelligent people that treat crypto as anything but the scam that it is. I'm not certain why you think celebrities - folks who have the same access to information as you and I - would know differently.

lol have you ever seen Star Trek? Star Trek was using the story to talk about politics. That's the nature of storytelling.

This site used to be frequented by smart people that were good at thinking. "I don't like how this story reflects on my incoherent worldview so I criticize the superficial aspects my potato brain CAN understand" is what's going on whether people want to admit it or not.

It stuns me that with all the shit going on in the world, a person would invest ANY AMOUNT OF ENERGY in this nonsense. If you don't like the story, don't read it. No one forces you to consume their media.

Even better - stop bitching and write your own story. Show them how it should be done.

In a former position, well over 90% of the code I committed in a few projects was generated from automated processes. As an example, we had OpenAPI-ish documents describing the data structures on our network appliances. I consumed that and generated things like Ansible modules (Python) and statically typed API clients (C#).

"Written by software" takes a lot of forms and I'd bet my last dollar on the notion that the portion described above is almost entirely generated by automated processes.

Written by software doesn't mean AI. It can - and likely does - mean generated by automated processes. That's all.

LMFAO get some self respect and get better at thinking. Holy shit.

I'm just waiting for one of these comments to include a list of things that are in fact Trump's fault. Ya know, just to make it clear that you're engaged in reality with the rest of us and aren't reflexively defending Trump as a member of his cult of personality.

I think he met JD, thought "Shit... if these are the people I'm attracting the organization I've dedicated my entire life to, what am I hanging on for?" and sloughed off to the garage to find a good place to die like an old cat.

Yeah folks need to read some Edmund Burke. His biggest concern about democracy was the middle-class pooling their resources to seize power from what he viewed as it's rightful inheritors aka those who have inherited wealth.

Burke's ideas are really the foundation of modern conservative thought. "Law and order" isn't about maintaining rule of law and order as in peace. It's about using the force of law to maintain the social/pecking order. It's part of why fascism and tech work hand-in-hand in 2025 - technology represents the biggest threat to the social order since the massive growth of the middle class post WW2.

Maybe these ideas are actually mainstream/centrist and the billionaire class that owns our media likes to portray them as extreme because it benefits them?

It shocks me how people fail to understand that isn't a problem of technology or programming languages - it's a problem of capitalism and how these organizations are managed. It's why I say "private equity poisons everything" because it does. If pure-profit is what drives engineering decisions - just like every other market sector (wanna order a pizza from Pizza Hut? They don't wanna pay delivery drivers and instead contract it to DoorDash which inevitably results in a worse experience) - you're gonna end up with a worse product.

The only thing ML-driven code generation (I respect myself and others too much to call it AI) adds to that equation is being able to make garbage at-scale.