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New comment by seanp2k2 in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

seanp2k2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:40:37 +0000

But at the moment it’s so exciting to see if we’re headed more for a Waterworld-esque dystopia or something more similar to Neuromancer / The Matrix. I guess it’ll depend on the rates at which the global economy collapses as a result of AI and WW3 vs climate change, exacerbated of course by the inevitable global thermonuclear war.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

seanp2k2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:36:19 +0000

It’s probably already too late to put these horses back in the barn, but having an “allow AI commits / PRs” would have probably been a good idea for GitHub to make available to projects. Even better might have been something like a robots.txt for repos with rules that could be auto-evaluated and PRs auto-rejected if they weren’t followed.

Then again, we see how well robots.txt was honored in practice over the years. As with everything in late-stage capitalism, the humans who showed up with good intentions to legitimately help typically did the right things, and those who came to extract every last gram of value out of something for their own gain ignored the rules with few consequences.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

seanp2k2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:32:18 +0000

It was interesting the other day tracing the lineage of Aaron Swartz -> Library Genesis / Sci-Hub -> LLM vendors relying on that work to train their models and sell it back to us all with no royalties or accountability to the original authors of all this painstakingly researched, developed, and recorded human knowledge they’re making billions on.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

seanp2k2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:26:46 +0000

Obviously the solution is better AI PR reviewers with more context for FOSS projects /s

And I’m 100% sure there are dozens of startups working on that exact problem right this second.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

seanp2k2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:24:49 +0000

The Board has decided that we can no longer afford artisanal, hand-crafted software, and that machine-made will suffice for nearly all use cases.

Enshittification Enterprise Edition.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Language model teams as distributed systems"

seanp2k2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:19:54 +0000

Everyone wants to be the CEO of their own megacorp managing thousands of AI engineers I guess. Just like microservices, there’s probably a ton of overhead doing things this way vs monolithic / single agent. Certain types of engineers just love over-engineering hugely complex stuff to see it work. Goldberg architecture was already prevalent and bad enough in enterprise before the AI boom.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "SpaceX IPO Scandal"

seanp2k2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:56:20 +0000

Good thing we can also preemptively divest on our retail accounts and just wait this out so we don’t get stuck bag-holding this turd sandwich. Ooh wait, selling triggers cap gains taxes.

What a great scam. So either dump all your index funds and pay the huge tax bill now or stay in and hope against all signs and odds that someone does something to stop this.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

seanp2k2 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:52:26 +0000

I’d love to see a lawyer point out how this is no different legally from the NSA only “collecting” your data if a human actually views it and is therefore totally above board and adhering to the letter of the law.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/new-documents-sh...

New comment by seanp2k2 in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

seanp2k2 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:48:21 +0000

I’d argue that it’s not specifically that they prefer it, it’s that they don’t understand and appreciate what they’re selling to get whatever service without paying money. Now that we live in a world where everything is collected, aggregated, sold, and weaponized regardless of you paying or not, maybe it doesn’t matter much anyway.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'"

seanp2k2 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:10:18 +0000

The dystopian surveillance state is already here: https://youtu.be/Pp9MwZkHiMQ

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Show HN: A Map of All YC Companies (5,300 Startups by Batch and Location)"

seanp2k2 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 17:22:19 +0000

Soooo basically half of them are in SF, south of Pine St, east of Webster, north of 16th, west of the Powell St BART station AKA Mission Dolores / SOMA / Hayes Valley / Van Ness.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police"

seanp2k2 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:54:04 +0000

Every accusation is an admission. Always has been.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

seanp2k2 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:14:30 +0000

Ladies and gentlemen, the problem with The Valley in 2025.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent"

seanp2k2 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 05:46:52 +0000

Google is really accelerating product timelines these days, this one is already in the graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/

New comment by seanp2k2 in "US Congress is making more than 250M acres of public lands available for sale"

seanp2k2 — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 04:03:13 +0000

“”” "It's so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government," Hageman said when asked about Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks. “””

https://youtu.be/qiyXwpbICJE

Why would anyone trust anything she says?

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Publish a Python Wheel to GCP Artifact Registry with Poetry"

seanp2k2 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:50:02 +0000

Someone needs to make a site like You Might Not Need jQuery but You Might Not Need Docker. It's unfortunate to me these days that putting everything into containers seems to be the default.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Merlin Bird ID"

seanp2k2 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:53:47 +0000

If you're interested in this, https://www.birdweather.com/ is a kinda neat automated sound-based bird ID and tracker in a nice little package. I'm not involved with it in any way, I've just seen it around recently and I'm interested in this space. You might also like Wildlife Sound Recording Society (WSRS) https://www.wildlife-sound.org/

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'"

seanp2k2 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:44:04 +0000

...and given the massive success of Amazon Alexa...

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?"

seanp2k2 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:37:29 +0000

Elon Musk Predicts Level 4 Or 5 Full Self-Driving ‘Later This Year’ For the Tenth Year In A Row

(2023) https://www.theautopian.com/elon-musk-predicts-level-4-or-5-...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/grift

    ways of getting money dishonestly that involve tricking someone

So, they got money dishonestly by tricking someone into buying their cars based on the belief that they'd offer real full self driving now or very soon, then they didn't actually deliver that.

New comment by seanp2k2 in "Builder.ai Collapses: $1.5B 'AI' Startup Exposed as 'Indians'?"

seanp2k2 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:33:33 +0000

Not when that lane is the HOV lane and traffic is going (speed limit + 15mph). You can always spot the white Tesla on 101 doing the speed limit in the HOV lane during rush hour with a mile of cars behind them and a mile of nothing in front.