None of this is truly about the people (even though the sentiment is) - it's the elites vying for power against each other.

The internet is not tribal, but humans are. Those seeking to divide are pushing their hardest right now, because they know division will empower them more.

90% of my Claude usage is getting it to write me guides, that I can then spend most of my time following to build the end results.

Keeps the brain healthy and also provides bespoke learning, rather than a generic course off the internet. Definitely a great use of AI.

Other than that, I am happy with the CLI.

Maybe if you somehow stick with the same company for your entire career, it could feel somewhat similar... but I doubt it, as 'best practices' and many other things cause it to change.

The days of 'lifetime career' had already gone for most people, way before AI arrived.

If you had a really good (big) local model, maybe it's an option, but on the more common smaller (<32b) models, it will have similar problems in looping, losing context, etc. in my experience.

It's a nice TUI, but the ecosystem is what makes it good.

I get some really amusing 'reflective' responses, but I think it needs a bit more cooking. Maybe I'll try another variant.

Privacy was already lost when everyone adopted mobile phones and gave them everything with constant location tracking, and used the free email accounts.

It's interesting that age-verification is the straw that breaks the camels back, but I guess porn has that power.

For London. Maybe higher for Remote US.

For the rest of the country, it's a fair amount lower, typically around the £60k region.

I wonder if it's blocked simply by DNS manipulation and therefore only people using the ISP DNS have issues.

Unfortunately, most of the jobs (and the industry as a whole) evolved into something else that was all about money and growth and image, and not at all about the craft of programming or the creative nature it provided.

Because for many of us, AI is "not approved until legal say so".

Agile has completely changed things, for better or for worse.

Being a SWE today is nothing like 30 years ago, for me. I much preferred the earlier days as well, as it felt far more engineered and considered as opposed to much of the MVP 'productivity' of today.

There will likely be some local devices, but the majority of power will be gated behind money and control.

I would love a local/offline version of this, with a BYOM variant.