If you scope LLM's to "frontier models", I do expect it to be an ever-growing moat. Maybe not if you work at BigCo who will pump out $X0 million/yr to gain access to it, but definitely for the singular use cases of people navigating to Claude.ai and asking a quick question. That's assuming the companies stay afloat long term to begin with.

If you open it up to open-weight models, then I question how many this will filter out. Will it be a tool valuable enough for people to overcome the large starting hump like Photoshop? Or will some future company come in and streamline the UI/UX to make them as intuitive as possible? Those are the truly interesting questions in my mind.

You're assuming people already know how to code. That's not built-in with vibecoding.

The paradigm shift on how every medium+ size FOSSS repo needs to take in PR submission?

The increase in bot activity in social media/

Who's the ones saying this is actually creating higher quality products? No one talks about quality anymore: only speed.

Instead it's created swamps in the art community, choas and bloat in the FOSS communities, a stronger sense of mistrust with traditional search, a deepening of the Dead Internet Theory, more broken tools to scrounge through... where is this supposed "benefit" I'm getting out of this?

It seems we're about to get a massive stress test of such a theory.

The "usual legal action": "best case" is the corporation is sued and charged money for the hack. But they likely settle well before that verdict. "worst case": absolutely nothing. Not even a cheap settlement. Maybe some corporate apology made to prevent any legal liability.

If we want hacks to be taken seriously: what should happen is that the CEO of such a company is held liable, since the "corporation" has a representative and a human needs to be held liable for such actions.

Only if you're rich already. Wander into the wrong piece of land and see how quickly you're arrested because existing in a space is sufficient criminal intent.

Adobe as a huge market leader won't be affected, but I don't know how many other studios will get away with that.

It also does help to reign in some spending. Because a lot of spending is indirectly performed through subsidies. Oftentimes in the modern day for the rich who can already afford such initiatives.

Just more examples of political greed being funded by a plutocracy.

Percentages also don't matter as much when you break down raw numbers. A 20% (ignoring taxes) raise when your take home pay is $3000 disappears very quickly into your $6000 credit card debt, or maybe your $700/month car loan, or your $400/month student loans. People making that extra $600 more don't get a breath of relief, they get closer to the surface to breathe at all.

>No one will credit politicians for raising average wages, people will believe they earned their raise themselves.

And this is why we're doomed to fail at this rate. We're in 4 entirely different crises that are entirely above any individual worker's head, but somehow our solution is to just grind our way out. Maybe do some gambling (or sorry, "prediction markets")to get ahead. We're trying to dig out of a hole we didn't make and we just keep shuffling sand around instead of actually progressing.

Maybe if trickle-down economics works and benefits spread to renters we wouldn't be in this mess. But we are, and the universal answer to lower property value so people can afford shelter is competition. Not the only answer, but the most acceptable one.

2. Because overall, society's working class is working 90-year high hours for 130-year low effective wages. I don't know if the percentage taxes are absolutely lower, but it will feel like that under such conditions.

We've been boiling for a while now. I wonder if/when we'll collectively realize it.

Perfectly encapsulates modern society's attitudes by generation.

Change that older lady to a 30 year old woman and the sentiment quickly shifts to "big deal, live in a house you can afford in. people need to move, get jobs, and work. Get hustling". And that is likely the story for a generation of renters.

Yes, it is morally bankrupt. But sympathy is a two way street and can quickly be lost when one side suffers pain.