"$20/month · or $160/year"

-- https://aitradingcompetition.com/playbook.html#pricing

How many figures of damage did Aaron Swartz cause?

but it's you throwing around the term. e.g. "economically speaking, that's an art market" - in what sense? How do you define an "art market"? It all seems very tautological.

> aesthetics-driven pursuit

aesthetics can usually biased by utility, to the extent of being a proxy for it. You can find the aerodynamics of a aeroplane or hummingbird wing beautiful, but there is still functionality driving it.

aesthetics is not the opposite of instrumental value; perhaps affective value, or sentimentality is?

> would I pay extra for an artisanal, organic, free-range, hand-coded app

what is artisanal code? I think talking about ux design conflates things, consider only backend code.

Can you define art/artist? If software is art, then what profession isn't?

Software still has value, specifically utility, it's just cheaper to produce, its market value is lower.

How is that comparable to the arts?

> convince or to inform. It's literally the pretext for all communication

ok, so what does a dirty novel, or some other pulp fiction convince or inform you of?

scapegoating isn't really legally viable. corps who outsource their development haven't outsourced their liability.

Implies a process requiring no expert knowledge or understanding. That doesn't seem to match common experience of professional agentic development.

You are describing vibe coding, which is without human design, review or direction.

Models are getting better at this, but it's not yet clear how practical they will be. They often fail on uncommon tasks, or get increasingly more expensive as the code-base grows.

I think things will change, as the technology develops; problem is corps are acting like we are already there, encouraged by ai-providers.

I'm optimistic about ai, pessimistic about the fallout of ai hype.

because to me this:

"Something simple like adding reactions, adding read receipts ... The LLM easily excels at the task and yet I didn’t have to do it."

Implies to me code gen.

That aside, are you a 'DidntUseIt' sockpuppet, given there are lots of green accounts responding on their behalf..

You joined 2 days ago..

The agents are building all these small features, up to a full SaaS; and all the code is excellent?

How much time do you spend in code review?

Isn't it fair use, like training data?

You have the option to pass on such a tax burden, as do any other home/land-owner(s), which is relevant to the conversation.

What point are you making relevant to that?

You call it non-reproduceable, but money is literally created.