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Lying to someone to deceive them into providing you with an economic benefit that they otherwise wouldn’t is textbook fraud.

You have a specific idea of customer in mind. Likely different than the gp’s. Many types of customers are quite happy to have prototypes thrown at them. Sometimes it’s even contractually required in agency work.

If someone wants to propose an amendment allowing the feds to do this, they can. They just need to get 2/3rds of both the House and the Senate to approve the proposal and then get 3/4ths of the state legislatures to ratify it.

Not sure why you’re acting like I think changing the law in this way would be a good idea, though.

Sure. But by the text of the constitution (the thing we made up) Congress does not have the power to criminalize “anything,” but only things in specific areas. Everything else is left to state law.

Customers aren’t in the habit of paying for things they don’t want.

These are factors to be considered, not pass/fail questions.

Nope. Virtually every fast food restaurant has free wifi, to say nothing of public libraries. It’s more common now than it ever was previously.

Presumably you don’t anymore if you have 5.4.

Codex added skills support recently. It appears to work exactly the same as Claude Code.

Cursor, Copilot, Roo Code, Cline, among others.

“firing people while turning a profit is 100% bad faith that should be regulated or barred.”

That’s far too broad a claim. Just because you’re turning a profit doesn’t mean you should be locked into keeping all of your employees. Some are likely to be underperformers who don’t bring sufficient ROI compared to other investments/hires you could make.

Your expanded version is also incorrect.

> If it really was "just a complex situation", you would expect equal percentages of simple and complicated cases for regular joes and huge corporations, no?

Obviously not. Regular joes almost always have relatively simple situations relative to multinational corporations, otherwise they wouldn't be regular joes.

Still relevant, as it means that a coding agent is more likely to get things right without searching. That saves time, money, and improves accuracy of results.

Citation needed for the idea that zero is the optimal price for public benefit. Among other issues, I expect medication compliance would be higher when the patient has to pay for the medication.

I believe they are talking about the OpenAI API, not ChatGPT.

I’ve never provided a number first. I’ve also never been dropped from interviews or negotiations because of that.

I’m an expert in my specialty now, but I wasn’t when I started following Patrick’s advice.

I’m not a celebrity or superstar, and I’ve successfully used his techniques several times. The very first time it resulted in $20k improvement over the initial salary offer. Another time it resulted in an additional $40k in signing bonus.

Most recently it resulted in a modest $5k boost to the offered salary.

But the level of success you are likely to experience entirely depends on the alternatives that you have and the alternatives they have.

(I should also note that I’ve never been located anywhere like SF.)

I ran into this as well, but now I have given standing instructions for the llm to pull the latest RR docs anytime it needs to work with RR. That has solved the entire issue.

Why wouldn’t you put your inputs in a form element?

Have you ever read the books? The main characters are middle class or poor.

Part of that is that Claude is exceptionally good at turn-based interactions compared to other models that are better at one-shot reasoning.

In my experience it is true, but only for relatively small pieces of a system at the time. LLMs have to be orchestrated by a knowledgeable human operator to build a complete system any larger than a small library.

This article covers a lot of the history. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-cant-the-us-build-ships

Basically the US wasn’t great at shipbuilding post civil war due to high costs. WWII was an existential threat so cost was no object, and we coasted on that capacity for a long time.

How else do you propose to get a company to build a factory at your preferred location rather than theirs? Paying companies is the usual way to get them to do things.

The economic effects are important but secondary to the national security effects of having TSMC chip manufacturing on US soil.

> Here [2] is a table of best selling movies, inflation adjusted. No movie made in the past 25 years, including the endless men in spandex movies, is among them.

The Force Awakens (2015) is #11. Avatar (2009) is #15. Avengers Endgame (2019) is #16. And that’s just in the top 20. Not too bad for a list that covers a century of films, especially when you consider the limited entertainment options available in the first half of that century.

> classes are normally smaller than that

This varies a lot by location. In my area, that's a normal classroom size. My sister is a kindergarten teacher with 27 students.

Trailer park is just the older term for mobile home park. I believe the term you were looking for is RV park.

Tags are functions that receive an array of strings and then a series of arguments corresponding to values passed in the interpolation slots, allowing you to use template literal syntax while the tag function does something much more complex under the hood, potentially including returning non-string values.

I haven't used Tailwind in a larger codebase, but it looks to me like the problem here isn't with Tailwind, it's with the lack of abstraction in the HTML.

The tone of the article rubbed me the wrong way as well. Pointing to a couple of examples of bad Tailwind usage and then making the sweeping generalization that using Tailwind is equivalent to "the death of web craftsmanship" is completely over the top.

Sure, using Tailwind means that you won't have lots of one-off "craftsmanship" in writing CSS. But that doesn't mean there's no craftsmanship. It just means that the focus of the craftsmanship moves from writing nice CSS to designing nice boundaries between your HTML components.

But what do I know? I've only been writing semantic HTML and CSS professionally for 18 years.