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You know Cory Doctorow is just a science fiction writer who never even finished high school, yes? He has no expertise in any of this stuff.

Oh man, I’m building a system to classify very large streams of data, this should replace several pieces of my workflow!

This was almost good until it veered into antisemitism

Imagine, just imagine, that the power to change that was actually in the hands of humanity!

Crazy!

Atlassian’s MCP is phenomenal and they e had theirs longer than Linear

That’s not a decent quality of life. I know you may feel differently and find it hard to think about it objectively because you lived it, but you had a poor quality of life. It’s great that you’re doing well and you made it through, but don’t romanticize it.

Lmao that’s exactly capitalism

Honestly, a pretty incredible article. Yeah, this is what happens. And even so, as he said himself, the newbies continue to find themselves and the proles continue to gather to connect and reconnect.

I imagine many here feel convicted because they see themselves in Law’s descriptions of the well-heeled elite, and they resent Law for saying they are not transgressive instigators, anarchic fire starters, and autonomous free zone inhabitants.

Y’all. Be comfortable with who you are. Most of us just want good money, an awesome time with cool computer shit to do, and friends and family who love us. It’s okay not to be a revolutionary. What’s not okay is to trick yourself into believing you are one when it couldn’t be further from the truth.

Here’s to the revolutionaries - I get to live a more grounded life because of their willingness to live outside the lines.

And yet, I think it’s perfectly reasonable for the founder of something to share his opinions on why he thinks it’s no longer the thing he created.

Both things can be true.

Did you read the article? He isn’t going. He hasn’t gone.

It’s almost like late-stage capitalism isn’t built to support mentorship and education and enabling human improvement!

Maybe it is for people who have written code all their lives, but as someone who started with reading code and has read far more code than I’ve ever written, reading code is WAY easier for me.

You don’t have to think, the FTC will actively bring litigation against you on behalf of the corporations: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/04/...

The arrogance with which so many developers post on HN is really exhausting. I thought the goal was to make the conversation better with each comment, not less contextual or relevant.

you keep saying that but it’s been five years buddy

Yeah, that’s mostly been driven by socialism

You have moved the goalpost.

Man, Superpowers is sooooo good. I use it with Opus, Sonnet, and Fable, and its review cycles are truly clutch.

I layer on CodeRabbit for PR Review and it’s just so solid.

Are you a judge or a lawyer? If not, then you don’t know one way or another.

Read the TOS. It can absolutely be stealing.

Are you a lawyer?

Actually, this is untrue

Yeah, considering that taking trade secrets is absolutely stealing, this could be considered stealing

There are bunch of legal protections. They may not fall under copyright, but depending, you could be looking at breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, CFAA, and also, if you buy them off someone else, now we’re into tortious interference.

No, we actually don’t all know that.

Capitalism. Your problem is capitalism. The so-called vaunted “free market.”

This continues to be an absolutely false characterization of what Apple was planning to do, which it was doing BECAUSE IT WANTED TO SUPPORT USER PRIVACY

This thing where you keep saying “it will never happen” is why you’re showing your ignorance.

Yeah but most of y’all wouldn’t accept the imprisonment willingly.

Any PDS can talk to another PDS, yes.

For everyone who thinks you can’t learn with LLMs, Dr. Cat Hicks, psychological scientist and author of the recent book “The Psychology of Software Teams[1],” who worked at Google and founded the Developer Success Lab at Pluralsight, has written two skills called learning-opportunities[2] and learning-goal[3] that use validated learning science to help you learn while using LLMs.

Cat also has an awesome podcast with her wife, Ashley Juavinett, Phd, called Change, Technically.[4]

I encourage everyone to check out her work! She’s dedicated her life to helping software developers get the support they need inside organizations to be seen as humans, not just robots.

1: https://www.drcathicks.com#book 2: https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities 3: https://github.com/DrCatHicks/learning-goal 4: https://www.changetechnically.fyi