A interesting scenario would be to sell the hardware at cost, but include a 30% off ticket to the steam store (up to a few hundred dollars, in savings).

I guess it may not be normal but I got straight time overtime when I worked for a contractor. Made those weeks I really did do 80 hrs nice. But if they have any system involved the fact you did not get paid for the time would be a big red flag.

Infinite cities only yh happen with infinite population.

But at this point I can actually see something like that. What is prompt engineering but a strange pseudo ritual.

So praise the Omnissiah, I guess...

The target is people who would buy a MacBook but want to run Linux.

There are many people who turn down the MacBook, not because of build quality, or design, but because it does not support Linux.

If you have per key limits, this is not possible, and even in a wild situation you should b able to expect that your firebase key will not use 50k.

Vs fields where there is not a reliable feedback path, or that feedback path is much more noisy.

My motto, is that people have helped me a lot in life, with time, resources and sometimes money.

If I loan money, I explicitly do not expect to be repaid, and will generally say, pass it on.

Also it's often not the loaner side who cuts off contact. But if the person who receives the loan cannot repay it, and every time they talk to you, they feel guilty and think about it. They might just start avoiding you.

Explaining a design, problem, etc and trying to find solutions is extremely useful.

I can bring novelty, what I often want from the LLM is a better understanding of the edge cases that I may run into, and possible solutions.

The harms that come from this are against us national security as a whole, the harms are not to individuals and civil liberties. Even if both China and US governments are bad actors, then the fact that China is spying on Americans will not affect Americans civil liberties.

On the other hand if the United States does mass surveillance on Americans, then that can be used by bad actor administrations to suppress dissent, throw people who disagree in prison, suppress speech. Essentially the government has the targeted ability to suppress civil liberties.

So it is very different, because the incentives and potential downsides are different. Similar with companies. Google does not have the ability to lock you up for your Google search, the federal government does (if you are American).

It's the same with Nato/allies, it's not about the country, it's about the spying governments ability and incentives to act on the information.

We don't want the stasi, but imagine a world where the stasi instead had millions of files on Scottish people. What is the worst the stasi could do? What is the worst they would be realistically incentivised to do?

If you do then not vibe coded.

For me, I have different levels of vibes:

Some testing/prototyping bash scripts 100% vibe coded. I have never actually read the code.

Sometimes early iterations, I am familiar with general architecture, but do not know exact file contents.

Sometimes I have gone through and practically rewrote a component from scratch either because it was too convoluted, did not have the perfect abstraction I wantet/etc.

For me the third category is not vibe coded. The first 2 are tech debt in the making.