I mean, “worked well” seems wildly subjective.

It will be less classical liberalism / burkian conservatism and just more anti-immigrant hate. Less worker protections, more power consolidation.

Why not? Most people do. There are still about 10,000 working blacksmiths in America.

Unironically I think we need more lifestyle and technological diversity in the world. End the monopolies that make running your own X harder. More Amish adjacent microcommunities and less monoculture. Federalism for tech / lifestyle creep.

The only reason these things seem inevitable is because our shared delusions make it so. We would have more power if we weren’t all so afraid to exercise it.

I don’t think AI actually changes that we should always be questioning everything, including how much we question at a time.

And to me, AI should best be used to add rocket fuel to existing practices. Better tests, better observability, more atomic changes instead of big changes, automatic rollback etc.

Why do I care about my fellow citizen’s opinions? I feel like I’m drowning in my fellow citizens opinions.

Maybe I read the news for different reasons than other people. Why do you read the news?

What I want is this theoretical set of educated perspectives that claim to represent a broad range of views; when an actual broad range of views is more likely to include pizzagate than Burkian conservatism..

Maybe thefp.com would be a good starting point to ask - why is that not what you’re looking for? If you squint your eyes it provides a balanced perspective.

Maybe what I really want is a paper heavily biased towards multiple academic perspectives, and less towards populist coverage.

Historically teaching has always been “women’s work”. It’s skewed a bit more female in recent years, but that’s because it skewed male temp rotation before then. it’s always seemed like an odd retcon to say that we turned education female, combining that with the low pay of education which will turn away more men.

I also feel like school has only gotten more flexible over time, my parents generation talked about how easy we have it and school was more about sitting still for them, as it was for me twenty years ago.

I’m not saying the education system is great, or that there aren’t ways to improve it, or that we couldn’t improve it based on gender differences, or that there aren’t more “college prep for girls” programs than “college prep for boys programs” just that your specific description of concerns I don’t think is quite historically accurate. I think it’s weird to complain that we need to treat men and women differently when most people’s problem seems to be that we treat women differently; we’ve had 60 or so years of women’s studies and feminist theories playing out. Should we start caning boys? Is that the solution to all our problems?

As with most things, it’s probably just the end of postwar American Economic domination. Go before World War 2 and the high school graduation rates aren’t high enough to describe anything about the way things “used to be”.

Im sure im an outlier but one of my favorite things to do is literally “do what the locals do”

Unironically this is the experience I’m often looking for in another country. I want touristy days, but I also want to see their supermarkets. Their stores. Walk through a local park. Sit in a coffee shop and read a book. One of my favorite things to do is try foreign food in another country, because Chinese and Japanese and Mexican food is different as it’s adapted to different counties tastes.

To paraphrase the philosopher Vincent Vega, it’s the little differences.

I'm not saying that something is not rotten in the state of Denmark, I just don't think you've managed to clearly articulate it at all, I think it's much more complicated than "we need to respect the differences between the genders" as your word salad reflects. In fact, as usual I think within group differences are much greater than between group differences, and "We need to respect the difference between the genders" is culture war nonsense that gets the prescription wrong.

In fact, couldn't you argue that the problem is too much of a focus on the difference between men and women leading us to help women get to college and not men? Shouldn't we treat them more the same?

Interesting, which metrics are a result of ignoring the very obvious statistically significant dimorphism between genders, and not say political corruption, or corporate consolidation? Which statistical significant dimorphism causes this “screw up”?

And I understand some of the frustration here with zed and all companies. Sure AI is the future, and all IDE’s probably have to have AI to compete (I mean sort of, plugins exist). But like, get us excited on solving new and and interesting cases and experiences, not just sprinkling on the AI in perpetuity.

I don’t think this comparison quite works (or maybe I think it works and is wrong) and I think it has something to do with creativity or the initial ideation.

I would do this, but I’m a jack of all trades. I built my own diner booth in my kitchen recently. But my wife, who loves the diner booth, just doesn’t really want to get over the hump of figuring out what she might want. I think most people want to offload the mental load of figuring out where to start.

Most people aren’t just bored by coding, they’re bored or overwhelmed by the idea of thinking about software in the first place. Same with plumbing or construction, most people aren’t hiring someone to direct, they’re hiring a director.

Even I have this about some things, sometimes I choose to outsource the full stack of something to give me more space to do creativity elsewhere.

Even grok in “spicy mode”? The great thing about the free market is you can choose! But don’t worry, the White House will be gate keeping all new LLM releases soon, so you can ask Claude to insult all the women you desire.