Evidently the AI users think hard things are beneath them. They want to win without doing any work. Sympathy, I have not.

If you you distribute costs, you can create true sustainability.

This was supposed to be a form of consumer empowerment, not a literal extortion mechanism.

How am I supposed to take their stance seriously? They rag on people who do shit like this

Enough that I'm not gonna read their shit ever again if they stick with THAT.

The only two options are "accept all" and "reject all and subscribe".

...Also I hope you don't have any bones in your butt

It's built on top of a content-hashable XML-ish data modeling language called CSTML: https://docs.bablr.org/guides/cstml

Binary document support isn't done yet, but it is planned.

That may make it seem like nothing every changes, and much wind is spent on it. Real change is often so deep and slow that it just isn't even news. That's because politicians don't usually lead, they follow

At the same time this specific rewrite is being used to drive the narrative that reading the code is counterproductive.

If they had delivered their promises, they might have convincingly delivered that argument.

...but the cost keeps going up and up and up and up! If it was only the token costs it might still be economically viable, but I'm imagining that when you add in the pro-rated salaries of the human engineers this would start to look like a financial blunder even if it released today.

It's true that I don't want a success story told about a failure, because then replicating the "success" would likely produce lots more bad outcomes

I also have much smaller nodes than Dolt generally, and where they only hash keys to balance the tree, I also allow the value to influence the tree structure.

Yet the presence of gathering places certainly does suggest civility! A warlord could command the cooperation necessary perhaps, but would have little reason to build that structure rather than walls and towers