I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.

I almost wonder if that's actually a dude who was on the flight or someone taking advantage of an opportunity to get in the news.

Seems so unlikely.

I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.

Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.

My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.

âoeAIâ models will be a race to the bottom. New content to feed them is the model to profit from, well should be.

JS developers are typically less experienced, less qualified developers who tend not to know all the ways you can be exploited by software from a 3rd party.

A very simple example of this is that almost all who use NPM have their builds configured to use the very latest version of each dependency, which means they have no idea what code is actually used each build.

This practice is encouraged by the community, and it takes extra effort to pin versions. This is pretty basic engineering stupidity, but its the NPM way.

Then th ey usually build their app each time it starts. It's not recompile, it goes and pulls down the dependency, whatever the latest version is ... each time it runs.

So even if it was built and 'released' with version X of its dependency, it could restart with X.1, or same version number, but hacked version upstream ( this has literally happened multiple times over the years ) because there is no validation.

Then, the "language" is so broken and non-standard there are dependencies for some silly shit, like parsing tabs correctly, and so each dependency you pull in, it may have a dependency tree of another hundred things.

The end result is pulling in even though basic things, you pull in hundreds of other dependencies. All of them set to then pull the latest version of child dependencies without any sort of validation.

NPM is used by a bunch of immature developers who lack the experience to understand that pretty much everything they consider a feature of the language is in fact a flaw that other languages/ecosystems dont allow for or highly discourage.

JS/NODE/NPM are designed around and encourage anti-patterns the rest of us stopped doing years ago.

This is a good time to remind everyone that when government fucks with markets 40 years ago, they make it hell on everyone for the next 200 years.

Well, as typical with a JS fanboy, you need to get your facts straight. This is why the rest of us dont take you seriously.

Quantum computing is very very very rarely faster than classical computing today. It has NO practical value and its big "wins" have been simulated in most cases, about what they'll be able to do eventually after working out more bugs. It is currently 100% useless beyond research.

But this is exactly the kind of uneducated decisions that come from JS developers.

NPM is just one, but not the only example required to understand why your a dumbass to use JS for anything. That level of craptastic pervades the entire JS ecosystem. Im sure you think NPM is wonderful.

Meh, I too call bullshit on your claims.

45 years? That puts you in a pretty small group of people. All of which have enough experience to know why those languages are ones you run away from.

OR your last 45 years of "programming" experience has been at the Excel macro/VBA level, in which case you arent qualified to be at the big boys table either.

I'd like to believe you, but my 25 years of building complex systems has seen how people trying to use kiddie languages for anything beyond a basic ops script ends badly and takes years to unwind.

If you've been using those languages for serious work over the last 45 years, I'm the guy who has to come in and replace your jumbled pile of crap script after you get fired.

The fact that you dont understand that those aren't appropriate for most things is a strong reflection on your lack of engineering prowess and actual experience. Use the right tool for the job, and dont build yourself into a hole.

You arent magically different than every other low grade Javascript dev, you just dont realize it.

The whole âoeitâ(TM)s super dangerousâ thing served two purposes. First, it hyped the product. It must be earth shattering if itâ(TM)s super dangerous. Second, it was a naked play for government regulation to protect them from competition.

The irony of course is that they played up Skynet, the real societal danger was never going be stopped through regulation. The danger I speak of is that of generated content being taken as truth, whether itâ(TM)s propaganda or just lazy danger like putting glue on pizzas or misidentifying mushrooms.

But of course theyâ(TM)re not concerned with that. That makes money, and anyway, it will get better⦠eventually.

Itâ(TM)s âoequid pro quoâ not âoequid pre quoâ. ;)
If you get the money after the act, then itâ(TM)s not a bribe, but merely a thank you gift!

Linus doesn't brow beat anyone.

He just doesn't put up with arrogant and ignorant snowflake developers who think they are gods gift to the world.

He doesn't care about your little feelings, He cares about code quality. And every single time you saw Linus go off on someone- it was after the person pushed back like they were king shit and acted like Linus wasn't the kernel maintainer for 30 years and that their 6 month journey into writing Linux device drivers for their unheard of project for the first time makes them Billy Bad Ass know it all.

Linus is a douche to douchebags, rarely if ever does he go off on someone that doesn't 100% deserve it.

Stop crying

Thieves generally steal the phone first, then they see east it is.

Buying a cheap phone that is indistinguishable from an expensive one doesn't help you.

Ticket master charges delivery fees regardless of method. Digital tickets still have a $7.50 fee or something stupid. It goes up from there.

There will be a middle man for 99.999% of the apps out there. No indie/small dev runs their own stores. You just dont know who the middle will be anymore. Could be some 3rd party in Nigeria working with the Prince so Flappy Bird can sell you new flaps.

Yay! I can worry about who Im give my Cc# to again, and how they store it