For apps that will have 1-3 users and a few hits a day a sqlite file is far less operational overhead and can be backed up with all of the other files that app has.

I agree that no conspiracy is necessary, basic market incentives dictate that addictive "once you pop you can't stop" food is just good business.

You really find it hard to believe that profit making companies that engineer food would engineer food for profit?

What about if they advertised it with a catchy phrase like "once you pop you can't stop"? Would you still shake your head and say "not credible"?

I think the next generation of exploit will be putting up code all over the internet that does x, y and z and then when asked to one shot whatever that code does the agents bake in the exploit that was indirectly included in their training corpus.

Spinning jennys are neat but if theyd been invented in a world where use of star trek replicators was routine I think theyd be more curiosity than revolutionary.

"Artisanal code" would definitely die off if the cp command didnt work perfectly or cost thousands of dollars to run but it doesnt hence why the metaphor is at best mistaken (and at worst dishonest, e.g. when frontier labs are desperately pushing it).

And, the flip side is that artisanal clothes would probably make a huge comeback if star trek replicators were invented and nobody would want cheap sweatshop made crap any more. Why would you when handmade Gucci silk clothing could be yours for a couple of bucks?

the worst software decisions were primarily about corruption, even when they looked like they were about competence.

ime the private sector isnt any more competent on average it's just that most companies' IT budgets can't be milked endlessly with the right connection. even there there are exceptions though.

95+% of the companies throwing AI at problems have problems which can't be solved with AI.

even where it helps it's usually just duck tape wrapped around badly implemented IT systems.

I honestly think that labeling corruption as corruption and a popular sentiment towards slamming a few people in jail for it would go a long way towards fixing these problems.

Instead even among the general public the sentiment is "government is just incompetent" which helps soften the reaction to it and thus indirectly encourages it to get worse.

There's no shortage of countries around the world that have dug themselves a corruption hole they struggle to get out of. It's easier to fix it starting from here than there but we don't want to end up there.

the government can switch up the incentives and for example make payment contingent on people actually using the platform as well as opening the tender to startup teams (usually they are locked out).