What pisses me off the most is it’s just so damn lazy.

The compromise is that corrupt officials on both sides need punished. Both sides need reform. Neither party should have the kind of power Trump has seized. We don’t fix this by voting in a Dem who goes on a GOP witch hunt without also rooting out corruption in the DNC. There has to be enough consensus to pass constitutional reform, and you don’t get there with extremism or hate.

If he tries, some states will keep him off the ballot and likely threaten secession if the feds attempt to force him through. That’s the point when doomers like you can decide to get your shit together and forge a compromise, or let the oligarchs have their way and light off a civil war.

> When America collapses it will definitely lead to societal collapse. The racial tensions are kept under control only because of the mirage of prosperity and equal opportunity. And when the mirage clears it will turn real ugly really fast.

You say that like you want it to happen. Continuing to harp on that future is a self fulfilling prophecy. If you want a better America first you have to envision it instead of tearing it down.

> If you want to Speedrun the collapse, vote for trump.

This nonsense needs to stop. You can’t vote for him again unless he deigns to run for a lower office (unlikely). Term limits are real. America needs to start planning for the post-Trump era and hopefully mitigate further damage with a blue wave in the midterms. Or with non-MAGA republicans who might even return to actual fiscal conservatism.

Frankly I don’t think this is that relevant. When software breaks, most people don’t want to get support from another piece of software. They want human support. As the models get better, I’d wager the problems that fall through will get increasingly messy by nature of a) being hard enough to stump the model or b) the model running in circles making changes that obscure or worsen the problem. Especially if you have non-technical users who can’t accurately describe what they want or the problem with the current state.

Benchmarks and guardrails are nice and all, but as you said problems will never be 100% self correctable. Models are good enough until they aren’t. I like to take a “what’s the worst that could happen” approach to planning support. Murphy’s law and all that.

> And as a last point, most of our users are not creating business-critical features with Vendo right now.

Just give it some time… you’d be surprised what becomes business critical in the eyes of a customer. Sooner or later a report will become part of an accounting workflow etc, and it’ll break on the wrong day and suddenly payroll is late. You know how many Excel sheets are “business critical”? Same thing.

An alternative model you might consider is selling direct to the end user companies and taking a partnership approach to the apps you work with. End users come straight to you for help, you have a list of integrated apps you already support with the required plan/license from that vendor plus custom MCP support and features that don’t need an API, then sell professional services engagements if an end user client wants you to work with one of their vendors to set up a new integrated app. That way you reduce support friction, and your end users are aligned with your buyers.

I think you just had bad teachers. Historical context was always part of the English language/literature curricula at my high school, and it definitely made a difference. I didn’t even go to a good school. Our district was the worst funded in our state with a 40% dropout rate.