But maybe someone better informed can explain... I've only heard James Tour ranting about it

Don't ask me what my point is

Did you mean "were not"?

Is it a surprise the complexity crisis continues? Dependencies rage out of control in modern systems, creating all sorts of havoc, including security issues. The academy seems to have little interest in this.

Especially interesting was the claim of using vocals as percussion. Had not thought of it that way.

Unless you think AI companies should be excused even from obeying the law, because that slows them down too much, which is kind of ridiculous

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10638929

My expectation is that the toolchain will expand by another order of magnitude because LLM's, not just because of what they can produce, but because we are lowering the ceiling with LLM assistance when it comes to just understanding the toolchain. That creates a vacuum that people can fill up with more stuff.

The "insanity" that makes people do this is hard to explain. It's certainly irrational and seemingly unconscious.

Having a user interface where trusted users can assign privileges to lower-level folks is massively advantageous if you build it right, by comparison. You do need to make fine-grained control possible, to be able to roll up permission sets into predefined roles, and - a simple matter that evades many - assign multiple roles to a given user. Users frequently "wear multiple hats", as they say, and you need to account for that.

What exactly is the nature of its monopoly that moots competition? I was of understanding that it's more than just ads on google search results, isn't it?