Machinery and scale efficiencies made cost of entry higher than ever though

That's not the case for IT where entry barrier has been reduced to nothing.

That's... So wise... Where is that from

from how to be a plumber --

  Shit flows downhill, payday is on Friday.

You forgot the most important rule of plumbing: Don’t bite your fingernails.

Property taxes are directly and immediately translate into higher rent.

Making rent more expensive doesn't make ownership cheaper, just makes it more attractive relative to renting.

Property taxes do not directly translate into rent, the % of the tax that is on the land value of the property can't be passed on, because the supply of land is inelastic.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-part-2-c...

Yes & no. Higher costs can obviously be passed onto consumers, but higher taxes make things a less attractive investment, too. The higher your costs regardless of whether a unit is occupied or not, the less interesting it is an an investment.

If we use outsourcing as proxy for what jobs will move to AI first, management jobs will be the last to be replaced.

Managing is about building relationships to coordinate and prioritize work and even though LLMs have excellent soft skills, they can't build relationships.

Spot on. AI might simulate the message perfectly, but it can't hold the social capital and trust required to actually move a team when things get tough.

A full featured mailed client is insanely complicated. If you think mail client is just smtp, you probably think word is just text with some styling and excel is just some cells and functions.

I’m sure, buried somewhere deep in Google systems, are vestiges of mail server code originally written in the 80s. But when people use the name Gmail, they are generally referring to the client facing web app, which does not have any such code.

If it exists, it's probably not at all related to Gmail or only used for testing. I don't think Google reuses a lot of third party code in its first party server software.

It is, or was at least. At the age of 13, I've created one for Windows. It was relatively widely used at the time.

I've seen code entropy as the suggested hueriatic to measure.

I don't know how viable it is. Even for AI, there are just too many intermingled variables when it comes to human behavior.

All the money in the world has been invested into trying to do it with stock markets, and they still can't do better than average.

Some places will just ask you to make up the hours by not working some other days but you're still expected to complete the same work.

Reminds me of unlimited vacations policies. Great on paper.

He is making a point something extremely powerful can be simple and obvious. Importing libraries is an obvious way to manage code complexity and dependencies.

Skills do that for prompts.

But I need skills ~4.3 cause 19,383 deps depend on it. Should I bump to ^4.0 in the llm-composer.json?

How are vibe coding platforms solving this?

As far as I can tell they aren't