I can't believe Rust and AI were mentioned in the same article and Slashdot didn't go down. I only see about 50 or so, "not on my lawn", "damn kids messing with technology, nothing wrong with the old ways" comments.

Conversely the laid off person can now spin up a company of one with 19 agents so they too can take a piece of the pie. Slowly eroding the original company. Why pay a large bloated company for 10 tools when you are only interested in 1 feature. This of course all rests on the hope that said AI tech isn't swapped out on the distributors side for conservation of resources. What should be built today are tools and systems that aren't 100% reliant on AI and only supplemental. I.E. the same way you hire a contractor to do some but not all work, document the progress and move on. Any full reliance on any one person, team, tool or AI will most likely fail in the end.

but without most of the headaches of modern Linux..
Yes, it had a great community of people that were never willing to assist if there was someone asking a question that had been answered 15 years prior. It might be the BetaMax vs VHS debate (sure FreeBSD was superior). FreeBSD died long ago when the community was filled with people too smart to be bothered. Maybe it still is better but it will never get the community support and only gets mentioned on Slashdot to stir these types of feedback. Only us old people bitching about stuff that doesn't matter anymore. Maybe Tucows will have a version I can download and test.

Because they "worked" for their pay. Aka backpay for their part in being part of a crime.

$750 per sucker = larger bottom line. Larger revenue = sale to larger fish. Larger fish = broken contract and $750 really means one year subscription (force migration to new platform).

Alexa is only good for turning on my lights and setting a timer. If I want to compete I better start figuring out how to do both at the same time.

Add Angi (angi's list) to the pivot to all AI (soon to be out of business model).

I image the finding happen during QA, which isn't the same as finding them in production products. If their tools find hundreds in production that seems problematic for cURL.

Reflecting the real world. The 1% use insider information to generate more wealth by titling the odds in their favor. Hmmm

Not sure what you are referencing exactly but while they hosted locally they often ran bundled software front end (think local Salesforce) with Oracle backends. I'm referring to 94-06 timeframe. Earlier doesn't count as most weren't online or didn't have those dependencies. I doubt very much if most built their own from scratch. I worked for a medium sized University. Def needed admins and db admins but good luck trying to have them show up on a weekend or night if it wasn't scheduled well in advance.

Short the stock. They have so many supposed contracts and none will be delivered on time.

Richard or the AI agent?

I hate that it uses jet engines to supplement power of the data centers. Makes me think they should scale back the token usage on them.

Get free heat as well. Be a target for theft and also back of the line when it comes to power consumption. Sorry, you can't use your own electricity today, it's cloudy and someone needs to run this query. Might even require a backup gas powered generator. Those things are so freaking loud.
Plus it will probably raise your insurance rates and when it becomes outdated, and it will you will be stuck with it.

Good idea, probably too premature to execute.

Educate adults while we're at it.