Your best interest only means your current best interest. What makes for the best form of personal interest is evolutionary, not static.

Dresden Codak as a story has a concept of "Dark Science" where the world has the benefit doesn't come from publishing science, but from utilizing it. If you understand a piece of science when nobody else does, and integrate it into your technology, you have a strategic non-academic physical advantage. Trade secrets basically. And trade secrets used to be the norm prior to patent law. We could be in the pre-"AI patent" era where the government created incentive to share your AI findings isn't made strong enough yet.

Science is today built on the shoulders of giants, but what if an agent swarm makes your own tower of giants in a day? Why do you need an ecosystem of peer review, if you can discover your own science from first principles without meaningful effort? Yes, it's duplicated effort, but why does that matter if the monetary cost of effort trends to zero? The value of peer review is going to have to contend deeply with itself just like how open source developers have had to contend with the value and mechanisms of inbound AI generated PRs the last six months.

One example is to get around a git --checkout usage ban, it CD'd to another folder first and back to bypass the regex in the hook.

I've been running Opus 5 today and it's already done accidental deletions, made far more mistakes and worked around deliberate hook controls than previous Opus versions combined. Also it looks like token usage is up as it fails at the task the first time around much more frequently than 4.8.

Hurray market competition and what capitalism was meant to be. Go above in providing a service or the customer leaves.

My hobby AI projects feature wise match existing company offerings in about a week of turn around. But this alone is valueless. The new thing that didn't exist before 2026 will remain the hard moat. But these moats will dissolve as fast as OpenAI can scrape your public marketing. It's going to be like releasing Meccha Chameleon as a break out hit but a month later the clones on Roblox having greater player numbers. This is the turn around times we're going to have to live with in general for business pivots to the "next" business logic that makes sense in the market.

Closer to the AI world it's going to be as fast as the transition from prompt engineering and MCPs to loop engineering and harnesses. I'm pretty confident popular commentators will see "loops" as old hat by December by raw function of what speed of evolution we're dealing with here now.

The move period has a lot of work ahead to get it back to livable, but also the opportunity to do better than just "livable".

The introduction of AI for rewrites is the equivalent of zero interest loans to housing, reducing the cost of a move. It doesn't mean "keep moving home", it means there is one less factor to worry about if you need to.

I've put up with a lot of stuff, but this would be my personal last straw.

> A leaked schedule for the “retreat” hosted by Dialog, an invitation-only group

All they're really missing is Oracle and Bambu Lab.

I would claim it has indeed become worse.