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Cloudflare is making aggressive bets as a company, releasing products at a somewhat insane rate. We have yet to see if they’ll stick their landing.

I also have my own doubts about this acquisition, but as I explore sqlite-per-user models I'm also seeing benefits to having some central control plane. I thought they would've made a natural fit on Cloudflare.

I find this release relieving because it fills a hole that was really needed. Another hole would be a proper database and improvements to D1.

We can think of the split between DB and application in terms of DX or code, or we can think of it in terms of colocation of data and compute. The latter case will be compelling sometimes.

By the time you are 18 and going to college it’s time to reap your lifetime of prep, you’re about to spend a ton of money to specialize. What does it mean to show you all the doors and motivations of life when you’re basically going “all in” on a domain?

Hopefully it doesn’t mean extending high school two years into college, still prepping to make a bet not yet made.

If I found out this metaphor for neighborhood windows was actually a window into massive amounts of institutional data, then no, I don't want someone to talk me out of getting more security on my kitchen window.

Security by obscurity is just a bet on weights, a belief that the economic motivations for attacking are insufficient. That worked before, but developments in ML calls to account all the debt we’ve accumulated through that practice.

I don't think your dichotomy works. When an LLM is reaching into agents.md it is absolutely modifying the specs. Who cares about original providence when it ends up in agents.md?

We were feasting on lies. Rather than demand honesty our instincts instead reach for a deathly sort of deliciousness. Anyways what was your point in the discussion?

And what framework would there be for international cooperation? Without that element, this would just be self-destruction in a global race.

I don't really agree that ML killed their business. I paid for their product early on before it was even done but they never really developed their product. I held out hope to the end of a year and ended up never using my purchase.

Compare that to shadcn, which had visible growing pains and yet reached rocketship fame. Shadcn is evidence that developers were hungry for yet another library, and it's also evidence that users were willing to tolerate rough code on the ride to maturity.

I don't believe Tailwind's component libraries deserved to win.

AI is about automation. Drones have killed people before. If they automatically kill people is that different? Is your worry that mere automation is not novel enough?

Snipers have killed people before. If snipers are now automated, is the worry that there’s not enough creativity to warrant a discussion past saying “same old, same old”?

Before we discussed how important security was, we got insurance, we made libraries and products, we used compliance software, etc. Except how honest were we about all that stuff? How much risk was actually in the air, and what was keeping us accountable on security in either direction of over or under-investment?

Now a reckoning is here. The potential to be attacked might actually translate to being attacked.

We're talking about AI developing weapons I guess because we're very focused on generative tech, but AI is already a part of weapons systems today.

OpenAI is willing to credit so plagiarism is not the right framing here.

That's by design, of course. Whether people got smarter or dumber we might still assign 100 to be the median.

Scratch's problem is ecosystem. It develops UX for children who are still early to the keyboard but children learn so fast, and at some point they get past the high friction stage and end up in a desert.

That’s a weak goalpost, the tech you’re talking about will land soon and then we’ll have to move goalposts again.

Kuzu appears to be a retired effort.

People believe that it will be a market with very few winners.

> Being a contributor on there

The way the Rhombus / Racket community does libraries has to change. That whole package site has to change. Being a contributor on there exposes you to a steady stream of fraud garbage. There's nothing to promote the top libraries as the top libraries.

https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/?fam=Rhombus

If we were talking about random niche people or some kind of inside drop on information, sure. But this is a generic argument lodged against one of the big prolific content creators, which means that the burden of evidence really falls on anyone who has the energy and will to spend. The information is well exposed and catalogued.

For people with 1M+ followers, anything that could be said has already likely been said.

Ryan has given so much to this community... perhaps he gives too much.

And today the line for amateur capability is being drawn at eager entrepreneur making an app on the back of Supabase and Lovable. The fact that iOS apps have zero users owes far more to sales and marketing than to software, so maybe that's where we should be putting our focus?

What can a mid level person do? Instead of a consultancy loaning out a team of 3-4 people, it might just be one person now. That could mean a lot of downsizing.

One thing mid level people wouldn't be counted on to do was create Photoshop or Paypal. The original thread is about top level pros being the ones who stay in the industry, right? That sounds about right if we're moving the conversation over to Photoshop and Paypal.

Yes, because a stakeholder wanted it.

Why ask such extreme stuff? Why not ask about the solo entrepreneur who creates a convincing iOS app without a programming background? Advantage the problem on the side of ML and look for winning scenarios today.

I've built such software for bigger police departments. I listen to what the stakeholders want and balance them against users.

If the stakeholder wants a way to bypass this or that, then that's what's going to happen. Neither users nor stakeholders will want to be handcuffed in the name of public accountability. Nobody wants to be handcuffed, really.

A robber isn't corrupt. A robber betrays no principle except to seize when hungry, and a robber has no institution to corrupt.

Every company needs an Oracle.