"buying China more time". China has no time-pressure to attack immediately, but all the upside right now of pretending to a stable, sensible world leader. Treaty with Taiwan will keep the ego of One China, prevent it from naval blockade by Taiwanese territories and will remove one of the major territorial issues raised against it.
Is World in immediate trouble? I see three posts discussing collapse of US currency and market on homepage, and this site actively avoids anything political.
An EU type agreement will keep peace for some time. Remove all trade barriers between two countries, have a treaty preventing any side to be used militarily by third party, no attacking each other and free movement of all vessels through each other's seas. Maybe few more
Current Trade with US is a small percentage of the reserve. It's the trade with everybody else and trust that it will hold value for all the future trade is where it matters.
One War. In 1962, i.e. 64 years ago. In meanwhile, US supported genocidal regime of Pakistan killing Hindus and many more in what is now Bangladesh. Sent billions more to Pakistan which are then used to fund terrorist activities in India. and some more recently under Covfefe.
Microservices solve people problem not technical. Till ~20 backend devs no point in moving to it. Monoliths are better in terms of performance, reliability and dev speed.
It has 10g of sugar, which isn't good but no where near a medium coke. Though not a healthy meal because of high sodium, but with some added fibers isn't very bad.
More likely reason is that Supabase is a BaaS. Between client and DB there is no backend for secret management. So RLS is the only way to directly create API on the DB.
Many times these test suites are more valuable than code itself, particularly in legacy software. Trying to find and document thousands of edge cases a software like Excel must have is more difficult than implementing them.
The difference is previous version of alexa wasn't good enough to pay for it. Now it is good enough that millions of users are paying $10-100 for these services.
Once AI improves its cost/error ratio enough the systems you are suggesting for humans will work here also. Maybe Claude/OpenAI will be pair programming and Gemini reviewing the code.