Let's take this to a different domain, self driving cars. Would you equally argue for human driving? I'm pretty sure over time it will become clear to everyone that machines will be able to outperform humans consistently at this task, to the degree that human driving will become illegal. But for now the press likes to focus on any failure of machine driving, taking for granted human drivers are the largest or second largest cause of premature death in many countries.

Coding (in many ways, but not all) is a more open ended and versatile task than driving, so it's natural that current iterations seem untrustworthy, but ignoring the trajectory is erring on conservatism, and doesn't seem to me to be grounded in any sound reasoning.

World war I was very much that.

Anyway it would be wise not to tie social network corporate affairs to the war. The two are not linked in a more significant way than a social network in general being linked to such affairs as a media.

Two years in the LLM race will have definitely depleted their seed raise of $4m from 2023, and with no news of additional funds raised it's more than likely this was a fire sale.

For example, Aztec, a privacy focused blockchain, requires recipients to download the entire block to determine if any private message is addressed to them (and BTW use techniques resembling Signal's double ratcheting in creating these identifiers) [1]

This is infeasible on mobile devices. At best, it allows the user to select a proxy server they trust to identify messages intended for them and forward a notification.

1 - https://www.taurushq.com/blog/enhancing-token-transaction-pr... (search for "synchronizer")

No. Going back to the stone age is not the solution. For the majority of our day, commuting without a vehicle will be impractical. So will coding without AI, especially as AI improves.

To retain human competency, we will have to find a novel solution. For walking, we created concentrated practice time - gyms/outdoor runs. Some evolution of leetcode, or even an AI guided training, might be the solution for coding skill preservation.

MISSION

Kulipa issues Visa/MasterCard cards backed by stablecoins.

It matters to people who do not have access to a fully open banking system (e.g. Argentina).

TECH

We synchronize the card payment network with blockchains and non-custodial wallets. It's quite complex to manage a ledger you don't fully control, so we're treading new ground here.

TEAM

We believe in the 2 pizza rule: We hire as few people as possible, at the highest possible bar. We have some ex-Meta & Google L7s, for instance. 5 engineers currently at the company.

YOU

Senior engineers with backend experience. Smart and excited. All the rest is bonus: Blockchain, Typescript, AWS.

https://www.kulipa.xyz/about-us#section_career

We issue Visa & Mastercard cards not backed by a bank. Instead we use stablecoins held in non custodial wallets.

This type of service is crucial for many people in places like Argentina, Colombia, Nigeria, Turkey, where inflation soars and sheltering in foreign currency is hard and often impossible.

Down the line, we want to take card payment settlement time down from days to minutes, which will remove a huge and expensive inefficiency in the card scheme.

We are headed by an ex-Mastercard, Google, Meta, and Binance team. Still very small: 5 people on the engineering team. We intend to continue growing small and senior. Our current team is skewed heavily towards senior with two former L7s from Meta/Google.

We have raised a seed early this year and are seconds from going live with first cards.

Looking for senior, passionate engineers in London. https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4045016220

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/23/388450621/fe...

I've seen people who quit and people, like me, who clinched their teeth and got through the whole ordeal. I myself at the time considered whether I should quit and stop wasting my precious time. I decided against, because in that society not having completed military service would be a social stain impossible to erase.

More importantly, quitting would change the way I view and value myself. I wanted to see myself as someone who performed their fair share of service back to society, and not a parasite. With the mindset I had back then, quitting would have changed my self view, and at least temporarily lost my sense of integrity. I would be a very different person today.

Looking around my social group, I might be biased but those that chose to quit military service more often than not drifted into the sidelines in terms of career, social integration, and other aspects. Of course some are absolutely fine. I can't say if that's merely correlation or actual causality, but I'm content with my loss of years spent doing something I wasn't really enjoying.

More seriously, this content should be read and evaluated divorced from the reader's personal affection for specific tools, otherwise what value did this writeup provide if your opinion was set from the get go?

The larger amplitude of emotions makes the positive ending stand out.