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But maybe the simplest answer is that most people do use the tools daily now and consider them essential...?
As much as HN would hate to think that
I genuinely don't get it. I've been following this Bun stuff a bit but I don't understand where the HN sentiment is coming from.
I still have a job so AI hasn't taken that yet. But the suggestion it's "no closer" is ridiculous. At least in my life/career/office this last 12 months seems to have been a real inflection point in how AI is being used for software development.
I used Claude a lot on a recent project where it probably wrote 15-20k lines in a month, and it was overall excellent.
I never understand this argument anyway. If you can't send funds instantly that isn't because the currently itself can't be transferred instantly - it's because for whatever reason you don't have access to a provider that will provide that service. That's a separate problem and can be solved without having to build an entirely new currency / financial system.
I don't think the reason has anything to do with price discovery, it's just because exchanges want to maximise their trading fees. Continuous order book trading leads to more trades and hence more profit for the exchange.
Much easier to just go by gut feeling though isn't it.
Anyway I've never felt it's a requirement to have a LinkedIn profile to get hired as a developer, so the post as a whole is strange to me.
I absolutely LOVE Tailwind and wish I'd discovered it earlier.
But actually this is a great point. You are right. Even in software development, the joy is building something excellent. The joy isn't usually in defining random util functions to help you get there.
With these advances we could be about to reach a point where extremely small groups of people could build phenomenal things. How nice it would be to be capable of building AAA games with a team of 2-3 people.
The entire space is a huge net negative on society and I wish it didn't exist.
If we are all just taking these coins out of circulation to make them as hard as possible for anyone to access, including ourselves -- then what was the point of the entire thing again?
No, your interest is most likely the same as almost everyone else in crypto - seeing the line go up.