If anything happens from this, I hope it forces Microsoft to address some of its long standing hostile to power users issues so they can stay relevant in the world of AI tooling.

That is the visible part that leads most people to being anti data center. The average Joe thinks "why is my community, water supply, and money going to this thing I dont want"

I want to see large investment in mass produced nuclear power plants, enabling us to do exactly what you are suggesting.

I envision something similar to a massive sankey diagram like dataset in a public git repo that anyone could access and audit. There is certainly lots of waste, but there is also loads of government spending where the value is not obvious.

My car is a 2018 with car play and physical scroll knobs and buttons, while awkward, I can operate it with my eyes on the road (realistically I can do everything I need from the steering wheel). This weird middle ground carplay was somehow the worst combo of buttons and touchscreen.

For example, I recently discovered this site https://bomwiki.com/ which attempts to make a giant dependency graph of all the parts used to make large machines. This would not be possible without it being a wiki.

The problem with ebikes is any unlicensed driver can get one, and go 40mph on a sidewalk without any practical way to hold them accountable.

I live near one of the busiest biking + walking trails in the country, and the egregious disrespect and recklessness of ebike's and scooters is insane to me. Even on the parts of the trail that are split into two or three sections (walking, running, and biking sections) I see people going 20-30mph weaving in and out of walkers. What's crazy is it would be safer if they were operating gas motorcycles, because atleast you could hear them coming.

Other commentors have made good points that these guardrails are counter productive for well intentioned cyber security, because I can't use it to test and harden my own software.

I really appreciate this perspective as It helps fill in gaps in my mental model of where our economy has gone wrong the last 50 years. Unrelated but - I've read an interesting paper on how allowing private banks to create money has led to the infinite profit growth goose chase...

At work I have a great brain dump + TODO list tracker via custom API + MCP into confluence, using confluence pages as the app state. The website is so bloated it takes like 20 seconds to go from "idea" to getting it written down. Im now able to avoid all of that and make ~ MY ~ perfect UX while still being a good corporate employee.

The difference here is just one word in the prompt, but serves as an example of how just a little but of deliberate thought in one's prompt can yield massive efficiency in outcome.

Whats wild to see both online and at work, non engineers given vibe code like tools will quickly show their ignorance to the importance of deliberate design and need for specific instructions one learns via coding. The "missing semi colon" meme is an example of the intuition we all developed early in our coding careers.

Many people are hoping AI can build and design for them, when in reality the deliberate design choices up front are as important if not more so than before AI.

The example I was thinking of would be a vibe coder having it "read my emails every hour" only for claude to read the same 1000 emails over and over...

One example - was giving several agents different sub problems to solve in a complex ML / forecasting problem. Each agent would write + run + read a jupyter notebook. This worked ok, the notebooks would be verbose but it was fine... until one of them wrote out hundreds of thousands of rows to a cell output, creating a 500MB ipynb file. Claude tried several times to read it and it used my entire context limit.

The solution was to prescribe a better structure of doing the world (via CLI analysis scripts + folders to save research results to). But this required some planning, thought, and design work by me the operator.

When I see people spending $10k a month in tokens, I can only assume they are taking lazy hands off approaches to solving problems with the expensive hammer that is claude code. EX: have claude read all your emails every day... the lazy solution is to simply do that, but a smarter solution is to first filter the email body HTML to remove the noise.