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2026-03-06 03:50:57 UTC

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Woman is the glory of man. So what would you want to get women to do to humiliate man?
Sorry for triple posting, but I live in a place where the women are just rampantly mutilating themselves and it hurts my heart. I'm not mad at them, but I hate whatever is causing this a lot.

2026-03-06 03:37:31 UTC

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"here's your image of God" "ok, thanks, got a sharpie?"

2026-03-06 03:36:37 UTC

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🤮

2026-03-04 16:09:19 UTC

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Emerges from what?

2026-02-26 19:59:42 UTC

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How would I know if your txn is paying for porn? Gross and get some help, but this is nonsense.

2026-02-25 07:37:37 UTC

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Can't really agree with that. During a time when I was working with ANNs, I would get together with a neuroscience researcher every couple of weeks to compare notes over tea. She helped me understand that they are really a lot different than brains.
The brain HAS NNs but it isn't just an NN. It's something else that uses a bunch of NNs like tools. (And those NNs are very different. They don't even do backprop.) The similarity between brains and llms is very partial and pretty vague.
Also we are not just brains. There is no strong reason to think that we are and lots of reasons to conclude that we are not. We also have hands, which is pretty unique and fundamental, but you don't assume that a mechanical grasping device is in the same category as you or alive in some special way.
The proof against mystical ideas about "AI" is model collapse. It proves they are purely mechanical. No more alive than an abacus. And abicus does math. And engine drives a car. AI just does work we are not used to machines doing. So it seems magical. But its not.
I'm not above getting swept away by the illusion, but I had two advantage.
1. I figured this out building simpler networks like embedding models before LLMs even landed
2. I saw even ML researchers getting swept up in the illusion even back then and have had like eight or nine years to think about it. All of this is much older than we think. Just the size is new.
It is literally a database. If you learn the mechanics of how it works, it is not mysterious at all. It's useful. It's neat. I like machines. But it is literally just a database. A compressed stochastic one. It feels like magic for the same reason a horoscope or ouija board does. Or gambling. It's randomness hijacking our sense of what is alive.
Life is order increasing in a physically entropic world. That's genuinely mystical. AI models collapse because they are closed mechanical, stochastic systems. They are no more alive than a toaster oven, and never will be. And you are. You are alive, aware, seeing beauty, grasping transcendent things, reasoning, choosing good or evil.
AAI can operationalize what humans put into them. On their own, it's just recycling and slowly losing the order we load into them.
Accept no imitations. It's a magic trick.

2026-02-22 06:39:20 UTC

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This isn't quite right. The miners only matter because the small hodlers hold. The small hodlers matter the most. Not the "influencers" (gay word, btw) not the whales, not the miners, not the ETFs, not the institutions, not even the devs.
Everything else is downstream from people who hold small stacks on hard wallets and run nodes. As long as those people do their thing, the rest of the circus will organize itself around them. And it doesn't even matter if they know what they are doing (and mostly they don't) as long as they keep doing it.

2026-02-22 03:52:22 UTC

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What's the difference between a Catholic and a Baptist?

2026-02-22 03:26:25 UTC

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Teetotaling is a sin

2026-02-22 02:21:45 UTC

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This.

2026-02-21 07:03:04 UTC

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*Bitcoin will preserve whatever we commit, truth or mistake, signal or noise. It is a map of us. The real debate is not whether an inscription is monetary, but whether it is worthy of time.*
#nevent1q…vq6x

2026-02-21 06:56:17 UTC

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What about God?
The lesson of entropy that Bitcoin teaches us about the physical time chain, that physics bears out when that lesson is applied, is precisely that man creates nothing. We only participate in creation as cosigners by our choices.
And, correct me if I am wrong, is this not also precisely what St. Thomas says about money, explicitly: that it does not reproduce?
One thing that actually just clicked for me in light of Jacks comment and what I learned while writing my little essay, is that another way to say what Jack is saying (I think, correct me) is that money IS the model memory, a form (in the Platonic sense, even) accruing order that the rational will cosignings. Either we choose higher goods, or we err and choose lesser goods.
We choose to participate in bring higher order that comes from source into being by coordinating our work or recycle the goods of the world under fiat (fictions of human value creation, dollars, ape jpegs, rent seeking, interest) under entropy.
The conclusion is not only that simple spam is pure entropy, but that non-monetary data with "financial" use cases that have these vaneers of being money-related are perhaps worse, because they are actually fiat, aka fictions of value creation.
Word magic is fraud. We don't create.
Hopefully that ramble made sense.

2026-02-21 05:52:59 UTC

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Shocked, I tell you.

2026-02-20 21:58:28 UTC

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I think that overstep was more than an overstep and they also neglected mainenance, like fixing the inscriptions hack. Without accusing anyone of anything, I can't help but notice that both the actions and inactions all pointed in the same direction of allowing shitcoinery on the network.
Bitcoin is money. Anything that can be done to tighten parameters to shut down non-monetary uses that crop up or sneak in a unintended consequences of other changes, without breaking existing monetary uses, should be done because that is responsible maintenance.
It narrows the state space, reduces the attack surface and supports keeping the network distributed by keeping the block light.
From a purely technical perspective (I've got no tribal dog here, and my local community if very core-centric, and I am friends with core devs) 110 really looks like a maintenance catch-up after some neglect.
Don't shoot but that's my honest read on the technical picture and somebody who has built and maintained software-based systems for a very long time.
Instead of fighting about this we could be focusing on making sure that 110 is a technically correct tightening of the bolts. No reason it should be anything else.
If there are specific, concrete issues, I am sure they can be fixed if brought to light.

2026-02-20 21:22:22 UTC

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Bitcoin is money. Invest in yourself.

2026-02-20 21:07:49 UTC

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Many fine people on both sides

2026-02-20 18:01:39 UTC

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I think a lot of lawyers go in with noble intentions, but I doubt even 1% keep that nobility. The system itself is so evil. I think the same is true for most high status professions to some extent, for the same reason. Imagine what you would have to play along with to get through medical school these day. A soul is a tough thing to keep clean in this world.

2026-02-20 08:05:00 UTC

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You've got to grok Jeff's whole framework to put it in context. It's worth doing. We get bombarded with a lot of things that sound profound. But some things actually are. Watch him on some longform podcasts and read the book.

2026-02-20 07:06:13 UTC

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Wait, let me guess: circular reasoning is when your reasoning is circular.

2026-02-20 06:44:55 UTC

Bitcoin is money. A monetary transaction is when you use Bitcoin as money.
If you act like you don't know this, you have either a moral or an intellectual impairment.

2026-02-20 06:38:18 UTC

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If you're going to play dumb, I'm going to believe you

2026-02-20 06:06:54 UTC

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Didn't I answer you? Or do you need a linguist? I mean, words don't really have objective meanings, right? Who is to say? What is a word? How can we even understand the question? Why bother to write it then?
In case you need it spelled out, I am throwing you epistemic nihilism back at you.
How are we supposed to interpret people who claim they don't know what "woman" or "monetary" mean? I could formally define either for you but you are just playing dumb and I'm not playing along.
If you want to have a serious conversation,, it starts with admitting that words have meanings.

2026-02-20 01:40:00 UTC

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Make no mistakes.
#nevent1q…mrep

2026-02-20 00:17:27 UTC

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Only vaguely. Spark is an offchain shared signing tree protocol, if I understand it correctly.
You are multisig-ing your way through a predefined tree of possible outcomes for a shared utxo

2026-02-19 22:27:47 UTC

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*Real privacy is operational security*
Write it on your heart.
#nevent1q…zq42

2026-02-19 04:16:04 UTC

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Halving and cycle psychology just nudge things into motion, but the setup is the setup. The real structure is marginal adopters for current use case. Cycles are just an overlay.

2026-02-18 18:41:32 UTC

Gm. Ashes to ashes.

2026-02-18 12:29:04 UTC

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Sounds good! No preference on structure, just happy to engage. There are some small things I touched in the physics as I traced it down, in case I undersold that. Don't know if it would helpful to the update or not. Can't wait for the update!

2026-02-18 11:54:04 UTC

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@jackk @nprofile…e9rx I added a little postscript with some conjecture viz cosmology. (I'm still mostly sure it's just angels holding lanterns.)
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html

2026-02-18 09:34:06 UTC

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Oh, that's just the overview. 😉

2026-02-18 06:12:54 UTC

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I just don't know if any of us are fully processing how pernicious pervasive custodial digital ID is.
We can't fight it with nothing. Something beats nothing. "No" is a line they will wear down all too easily.
I'm working on something. I hope it works. I hope one of us will make something that we can use to push back.
#nevent1q…x7u5

2026-02-18 06:00:09 UTC

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Some day we will look back and chuckle at that time we let robot lobsters loose on Nostr and people thought it was the singularity. I look forward to those time.

2026-02-18 00:35:34 UTC

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You're earning your name today. Eye on the ball.

2026-02-18 00:03:17 UTC

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🍿

2026-02-17 22:41:39 UTC

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Bitcoin is money. It closes down some ways people are or could abuse the network. Software is a game of providing ways to do things while keeping it as simple as possible. The least possible thing that achieves the intended result is best. To take Taproot as an example (what @nprofile…566r is saying here) it was intended to enable lightning without shoving the whole script into the transaction. That is getting hijacked to shove other data in. 110 closes that hole (the inscriptions hack) while preserving the intended use case. In general, ossification and simplicity are good at the base layer. That's what makes it good to build on. Least possible thing, least possible attack surface, least possible abuse, least possible change. Nobody wants to build on sand.
Tightening the bolts without breaking anything is exactly what responsible software maintenance looks like.
Also, I just like the idea that an intolerant minority can say "No, it's money, you are not hijacking Bitcoin to do other things. Don't touch my money." Developer capture has been a huge problem in open source software and core devs do not rule the network. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner. Minority veto is good.
I've been coding since the 80s and building software professionally for >25 years and that's my take.
I'm running Knots with110.

2026-02-17 22:00:33 UTC

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🤣

2026-02-17 21:55:29 UTC

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This is actually very good. I think spreading the word about what Bip110 does is the best way to get it adopted. Better to stay out of the rhetorical mud. It makes sense technically and if people understand it, it stands on its own.

2026-02-17 21:38:53 UTC

The only bots worth a damn are haikustr and that tracking codes cop 🚨

2026-02-17 00:14:58 UTC

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"half"? Half of what's left, if there is any.

2026-02-13 00:42:18 UTC

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Flotilla.

2026-02-11 00:36:27 UTC

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You can also use you npub to sign your git commits and tags, ssh and sign your builds with minisign-compatible signatures that can also be verified against the publisher on Nostr. All from your npub.
https://codeberg.org/zsub/rebased

2026-02-10 20:57:38 UTC

I'm signaling for the UASF, 110 is go.
I've looked at the arguments from both sides. I find the case for 110 to be technically, architecturally and intellectually sound. The case against it was nothing but rhetoric.
To be clear, I'm not calling anybody a pedo or a traitor. I don't like some of what I'm seeing. Some things have a bad look. But I'm not going to detract from anyone without real knowledge. I know some core devs who I like. Honest people can disagree.
I think most likely some devs and entrepreneurs just want protocol extensibility for their own ambitions. Such is life, but Bitcoin is too important. Propose a Bip if you can justify it. You don't get a blank check. In the mean time, let's keep the network tight.
Bitcoin is money. It needs to stay secure and decentralized. As a base layer, it should be as simple and stable as possible. So I'm pro ossification and simplification in general. That should be the default.
Anyway, that's my call for my node. I've been building software for a very long time, I care about Bitcoin and that's my take for what it's worth to you.
I don't think anybody knows how the game theory plays out. Let the blocks fall where they may. Either way, tick tock.
It's another fascinating passage in Bitcoin's growth and I'm excited to see how it works out.

2026-02-10 05:23:00 UTC

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I didn't say I don't like nostr WoT. I said the opposite of that (in my other comment that you also responded to.) I think you entirely misunderstood what fairydust I was referring to.
I was making a point about the rhetorical use of it to give a false aura to the specific claim being made: that anybody knows how the UASF is going to play out.
The nostr social graph does not contain that information. Neither does any map of the Bitcoin network. Nor the combination of the two.
The WoT gods have not whispered the destiny of 110 into the ears of the high priests of WoT.
People who believe they can know such things are called central planners. They often get high on new tech. "Pretty soon we will have an AI sigularity and we can have fully automated luxury communism." That's pride and it's usually not a prediction of the future so much as an attempt to control it by narrative.
The market reigns suprememe because it's made of people and people are alive. Stay humble.
The rhetoric I was pointed out was in two parts: 1. Claiming a foregone conclusion to circumvent discussion and 2. validating the same with an appeal to mystical special knowledge.
Nobody knows how the game theory of the UASF is going to play out.
Let's enjoy the process and see what we can learn.

2026-02-09 23:25:00 UTC

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I didn't say you have to invent the universe every time you bake an apple pie. Let's not reductio ad absurdum. Strip away all the histrionics and rhetoric (from both sides) and it's pretty tractible. What will actually happen is game theory that you can't model with a couple of graph queries on the WoT. Inevitability of a certain outcome is just another rhetorical device. So is sprinkling WoT fairy dust on it.

2026-02-09 23:18:17 UTC

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Been into WoT since 2001. The possibilities blew my mind so much I can remember where I was sitting and what the room sounded like. 🐇
That said, the social graph is not an oracle. The "wisdom of crowds" is pagan nonsense and consensus thinking tends to both retarded and insane. It's no way to resolve objective questions.

2026-02-09 21:55:35 UTC

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Blink twice if Elon got to you

2026-02-09 18:27:09 UTC

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Mostly good article, but this line is wrong:
"Voluntary exchange and free association are the only forces that reliably limit political power, because people who can move, trade, and reorganize their lives retain leverage."
The family is THE principle which limits state power, which is why it inevitably grows by the dimunition of the father, the demonization of patriarchy, aka family.
Stop fighting with your neighbor is step two. Restore the father is step one.

2026-02-09 17:21:36 UTC

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Hmmm, looks like a Marxist author though... Mayne it will still be interesting. The AI tells me that it covers broad cultural changes and things like the connection between usury and sodomy. E. Michael Jones talks about this in Barren Metal as well.
Fun fact: Dante put usururs and sodomites in the same circle of hell, for crimes against nature.

2026-02-09 04:21:16 UTC

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Linear thinking is the curse of the human mind.

2026-02-09 04:00:09 UTC

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The owls are not what they seem

2026-02-09 03:13:44 UTC

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... Going? It's the biggest single top-dowm adoption push I have seen in my lifetime... Maybe other than the vax...

2026-02-09 02:43:41 UTC

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A lot of men out there doing hard work, deserving hard money for it.
Maybe kinda cringe to quote myself like that, but I think it bears repeating. I recently saw somewhere that the mortality rate of crab fishing is higher than roman gladiators. Not sure if that's factual, but it at least strikes me as plausible.
Money isn't a game. People have a lot on the line and they deserve honest money.
#nevent1q…y8l6

2026-02-09 02:21:02 UTC

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Find the time or get an apprentice. Looks sweet

2026-02-09 02:18:58 UTC

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We better get the onboard sorted

2026-02-09 02:18:05 UTC

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🔥

2026-02-09 01:45:48 UTC

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😂

2026-02-09 01:44:38 UTC

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We don't disagree 🤣 I just don't think of "vibe coders" as devs at all. They are just exploring the bleeding edge of ui (some of them are ALSO competent devs, btw, not insulting anyone who is doing both). My guess is that ui dev is just going to be largely replaced by LLMs like basic web programmers were automated out of existence in the early 2000s. People will perhaps just use LLMs to generate UI they want to use and pixel pushing will be very niche. The fact that some people think that threatens real engineering is pretty silly. Automation directionally increases the need for real engineering always goes up and the skillsets required actually expand.
Niche framework jockies and shallow-skilled UTI devs may have some cause for concern.

2026-02-09 01:19:56 UTC

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Humility is helpful but we're all human. I have never known a junior who didn't over estimate what he could do with new skills to some extent. Calibrating that is hard and tends to come with experience.

2026-02-08 23:11:15 UTC

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This is pure sophistry. BIP110 is bad because it doesn't solve layer 2 scaling, mining decentralization or prevent all possible spam?
As to limiting op codes and innovation in general, that is also non sequitur. If someone has a specific proposal they can (and should have to) propose a bip.
Framing openendedness as moneyness is nonsense.
All I could really take out of this that was not a lot of empty rhetoric was that in your opinion preventing spam is not a valid part of network maintenance and that you believe being a shitcoin playground is a basic property of money.
You are entitled to your opinion, but I respectfully disagree.
Reducing spam and abuse is always a valid maintenance objective (and saying otherwise is a pretty bizarre take).
Bitcoin is money. The base layer should be as simple, consistent, reliable and hard as we can make it. Building higher layers is better served by conservativism and ossification of the base. No one wants to build on sand. That's true in terms of software architecture AND economic architecture.
@jimmysong covered this well on @walker's podcast the other day.
Bitcoin is money, not a playground for developers and entrepreneurs.
I'm sorry but I don't read anything here but a lot of logically fallacious rhetoric and the basic philosophy of shitcoin underneath.
The more of these arguments of this kind I see against 110, the more I support it. If these are the best arguments that can be made against it, it must be pretty solid indeed. At this point, I just don't see the point of making it temporary.

2026-02-07 19:45:14 UTC

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Scalability is just a simple matter of building out the layers, which is well under way. Financialization (paper Bitcoin) WAS my biggest concern, but this present bonfire of paper Bitcoin and the weak cycle are extremely bullish signals on that front. Assimilation is failing before out eyes. Developer capture is the next biggest threat, but that seems to be getting cleaned up. Quantum FUD is totally fake and mostly just a symptom of developer capture. ECC has no appearant REAL threats and may well stand forever. Mining centralization is a concern. My guess is that great power competition will play out that drama over the next two cycles. I think the DigitalID panopticon locking everything down is our next battleground. Bitcoin won't mean anything if they can build a perfect digital prison. But if that happens, all is lost anyway. And I don't think it's possible because of elite competition. They will always want the system to leak for their own purposes.
It's going to be a bumpy ride and a heck of a fight, but we won't give up. We are inevitable.
Keep building the future, exit the system, keep your head on a swivle. We will win.

2026-02-07 17:23:44 UTC

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Christianity is the only religion that *requires* *unconditional* forgiveness, to be precise.

2026-02-07 17:14:30 UTC

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What manor of Voight-Kampff do you propose?

2026-02-07 16:09:39 UTC

Gm pv. Freedom is still on sale

2026-02-06 17:51:27 UTC

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So true, and neither does using the invention of digital scarcity to "colleralize" more fiat money printing "loans"
#nevent1q…sgvq

2026-02-06 17:33:02 UTC

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"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
I don't like Nietzsche one bit but it's still a banger of a line.

2026-02-05 22:44:09 UTC

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It always does. If you wanted an ecommerce site in 99, you had to pay someone with a fair amount of skill to build it. A few years late, you just picked out a template. To run a saas busing in the early 2000s you had a guy to rack your servers and run to the data center in the middle of the night. A few years later, you used an orchestration tool to put it in the cloud.
Ai is great. I've been using it constantly for a few years. I'm a heavy users. I recommend it. I can see it getting better.
But it's not that deep.
All new tools are exciting and we always get a little giddy. AI even more so because it plugs into a cognitive illusion we are suseptible to: anthropomorphizing. Also the fiat system is going big on it and the hype is wild. Mania is infectious.
But it's still just a database and a text generator. There is nothing new under the sun.
After the mania will come a troth of dissolusionment and the the real value will come in more slowly and in a much less sexy way than anticipated.
This happens over and over. "This changes everything." "It's going to take all the jobs." Every couple of decades since the 1800s. Never happens. Not going to this time either.

2026-02-05 09:52:40 UTC

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"box of scorpions" 🦂🦂 indeed

2026-02-05 08:34:26 UTC

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🫂