Also lighten up! oh... damn black hole...

Not much real police work happening any more unless you criticize the government or do something they can use as a reason to grow their budgets or otherwise further political agendas.

If there is a video of a crime they do like that...easy! Also they can show it to media for props.

Lazy cops just love centralized 'social' media and the fools who post their lives on it for them to snoop through.

Requires ammo (tokens) which can be expensive.

Requires good aim to hit the target.

Requires practice to get good aim.

Dangerous in the hands of the unskilled (like most instruments or tools).

Breaks NAT privacy and the extensions do not do enough.

Top down pushed solution NOBODY WANTS.

Like the OP others I didn't use the API for gemini and it was not obvious how to do that -- that said it's not cost effective to develop without a Sub vs on API pay-as-you-go, so i do no know why you would? Sure you need API for any applications with built-in LLM features, but not for developing in the LLM assisted CLI tools.

I think the issue with cli tools for many is you need to be competent with cli like a an actual nix user not Mac first user etc. Personally I have over 30 years of daily shell use and a sysadmin and developer. I started with korn and csh and then every one you can think of since.

For me any sort of a GUI slows me down so much it's not feasible. To say nothing of the physical aliments associated with excessive mousing.

Having put approaching thousands of hours working with LLM coding tools so far, for me claude-code is the best, gemini is very close and might have a better interface, and codex is unusable and fights me the whole time.

IP is a form of thought control... Is that ethical?

Who holds who accountable? Is the one doing the holding accountable?

Like Stalin said -- it's not the votes that count but who counts the votes.

Bottom line is you are always required to accept someone's version of ethical -- whether it's obvious or not.

As a craftsman who has failed and started over believe me I have lived it.

Ethics course != ethical Corporate ethics ~= slavery with a smile

Lawyers will all tell you how ethical they are but I do not take them seriously.

Mainly they are useful to build belief and keep a direction towards the goal.

Models of any kind in whatever domain are necessarily always something less than reality. That is both their value and weakness.

So estimates are models. Less than reality. Therefore we should not expect them to be useful beyond 'plans are useless, but planning is indispensable' -- I think thats' Eisenhower.

Unions should have more of a place... it is the right idea... but they were subverted in critical ways so they don't serve their members quite as they should. Instead they enrich middle men. Seems like the bigger the union the truer this is.

Not possible!

But you learn over time and if you have the right though process, less and less it affects you.

Unions had a place, the idea sounds good, it's the practice people didnt like.

It's a game all empires/sides are playing. In russia we are the boogeyman -- everyone needs one! it helps to stifle dissent.

I reacted a bit to the OP when focusing on only one side.

CNN/CIA/NBC/ABC/FBI? etc?

18 years ago I stood up at a super computing symposium as asked the presenter what would happen if I fed his impressive predictive models garbage data on the sly... they still have no answer for that.

Make up so much crap it's impossible to tell the real you from the nonsense.