Are you doing less work now because of AI? Not sure about you, but I'm doing a lot more work. Not saying I like doing more, or how it's getting done, but nonetheless I don't feel like AI is doing what the CEOs of AI labs want to convince everyone of.

100% in real life where everyone has an AI there are new problems to deal with. There's a lot of correcting AI slop code. There's a lot of having to read AI generated slop docs and posts and PR comments. There's a lot of evals for large AI agent chains and prompts, etc.

who's buying your coffee or bikes when the rest of people are broke? Neither of those is a survival necessity.

Unless you're a techno-billionaire, not sure why you'd hope for our society to collapse in this way.

A big issue with non-remote is access to opportunities. A lot of organizations don't have offices everywhere, and I having to relocate every time there's a job change is absurd.

For what it’s worth having to relocate for work if the new work isn’t local has been the norm for like 10000+ years. I’m not sure it’s absurd, but it is a trade off.

It may have been the normal before we had the technology to remove that need. Obviously it may be the normal for certain types of work still, but I don't see why it needs to be that way for office work. This ends up greatly affecting housing markets too and making life more expensive for everyone.

The party in the pocket of BigCorp, that party...?

The insurance companies had substantial input to the specific text of the ACA. I'm not sure how you can imply the ACA was not a BigCorp bill when BigCorp wrote it.

It's also well known from leaks that the first Obama administration selected his cabinet using recommendations from Citigroup.

Well they heavily limit free tier usage and for paid users they are charging a tiered pricing model that ramps up very aggressively. Github is a lot more generous in this sense and it has a lot more surface area in terms of the functionality it serves

Any engineered system where an individual can accidentally cause a 7 figure outage is poorly designed. And engineering leadership that decider to terminate an individual due to such failure (as long as there was no malicious actions) is completely clueless.

Captain obvious over here

vercel just pumping out slop left and right...

They've had an insane influx. It seems that they should more aggressively limit free tier activity or isolate paid users, this has become unbearable...

Or maybe prioritise humans / human-shaped activity? Agents can tolerate a 503+Retry-After is a lot less frustrating to an agent than a human.