Reminds me of MechMania at UIUC - exciting!

Skeets is what the community wants, but the company does not (for obvious reasons).

Humans are also not trustworthy. So we build systems to capture their nondeterministic output and solve the issues that emerge.

We also have sanctions and incentives to induce specific behaviors, but they don't apply to agents. We can put a muzzle on Guile 3.8 but we can't turn it into Genuine 3..8.

yeah, isn’t that the main focus of discipline of software engineering?

This was the role of those "unelected bureaucrats" in the US that some folks decry.

It is far shorter than a fiscal quarter - the next market open is all that matters.

with the president trying to sell early access to his market moving "truths"

Thank you for posting this! I just finished a MUD engine and I was looking for a way to expose it to a small community of technically minded folks.

What are the knock on effects of lowering the total number of people/the velocity of money/the number of companies in America?

Canada's housing supply cost issues are driven by a wide variety of factors, very little having to do with immigration and far more with a small number of wealthy families owning a huge amount of land and a larger number of wealthy people holding many homes.

If you enjoy the podcast or the newsletters, I do recommend the Discord (https://discord.gg/oddlots) - the folks there are generally very smart and it is a great place to discuss everything from the economy to climate to transportation to defense.

Is there a way to use Discord without using the awful childish interface?

Very smart people on discord sounds like an oxymoron: why would anyone very smart contribute to the siloization of knowledge and support grow a corporate entity possessing highly questionable incentives? Discord is not a great place to discuss anything of substance.

If that's not clear to some now, it will be once monetization kicks in and the inevitable blowup and loss of accumulated knowledge follows.

You're using Discord to describe the same thing that could easily be applied to any social network.

Yes, it's borne of teenagers and gaming, but for all it's dark corners it's just the modern IRC. There are good servers, there are bad servers, there are servers full of idiots and there are servers full of very smart people.

(and we're way past monetisation kicking in, the first paid options launched almost 10 years ago)

I suppose smart people can’t optimize for pure discussion? One of the most popular and easy to use messaging platforms seems like a reasonable choice.

> why would anyone very smart contribute to the siloization of knowledge and support grow a corporate entity possessing highly questionable incentives

Some smart people aren't as concerned with knowledge siloization as other smart people. I'm sure if you went to their Discord and suggested an alternative platform with the same popularity and feature set they'd at least hear you out.

Mentioned, but there's usually a discussion.

Does this include "mentioned" as in "Don't read this book, it's full of errors"?

This. Same question for all those "I analyzed HN comments that mentioned books and you can browse them here" posts.

Your responsibility as a developer in this new world is design and validation.

A poor foundation is a design problem. Throw it away and start again.

We’ve always been responsible for design and validation. Nothing has changed there.

It’s funny how the vibe coding story insists we shouldn’t look at the code details but when it’s pointed out the bots can’t deal with a “messy” (but validated) foundation, the story changes that we have to refactor that.

But how will new developers learn to design and validate in the future?

Both TOWs and M47 Dragons are "remote controlled".