They always were but it's clearly spiraling faster.

Well, I don't how it is these days, but it hasn't always been describable as "Healthy".

It is a deceitful metaphor.

Plus, the "since there are more resources, let's add features" effect.

Terrible argument. They always could learn and DIY.

You have to have a knack for it, most people are not programmer types

I don't think it's about being a "type" so much as choosing what to specialize in.

I could learn plumbing skills and do the plumbing around my house. I've chosen not to.

There’s definitely a type. My wife is much smarter and harder working than me, near perfect SAT score, made it through an engineering degree at a much better school than I went to. Then did med school, residency, and fellowship.

She’s insanely quick. I once told her about one way hashing and before I was even half way through the explanation. Before I and ever said a thing about what they were used for she stops me and says “oh so that’s why websites can’t just send you your password when you forget it”.

At her job she has to call time of death for kids, tell people their kid has cancer, deal with people who literally want her dead, work shifts where she is the one ultimately responsible for the life and death of every patient that walks in the door, and work 7a-4p one day then 10p-7a the next.

She can do all that but she says that she hated her Matlab class in college more than anything else and she could absolutely never do my job because she doesn’t have it in her to bang her head against a wall chasing down a bug for an hour that turns out to be a typo.

Sounds like you are in a wonderful relationship, I’m glad!

... if they are privileged enough to be able to take time away from family and jobs.

The current crop of LLMs are subsidised enough to make this learning less expensive for those with little of both time and money. That's what's meant by democratised.

I don't think you can sell at loss in Europe (not sure, happy to be corrected), so might be small but it'll still be positive. The bet is it will be high enough to be a deterrent. The other bet is that at some point the rest of the world will push back being a corporate dumpster.

And unreasonably expensive unless you are Big Corp. Die startups, die. Welcome to our Cyberpunk overlords.

Companies will just shift money from salaries to their Anthropic bill - what's the problem?

Best not build any products that compete with Anthropic!

Or hey, the VCs can self-deal by funding new startups that buy bot time from AI firms the same VCs already fund.

No pesky developers siphoning away equity!

It's like American absolutly want to be robed by Trump.

You just have to tell them somebody else is going to be hurt in the process and they’re on board!

I never knew there was so little respect for the constitution; it’s all been very disappointing/eye opening.

I find the emphasis on micro-service distracting.

I get that it is particularly valuable in that scenario by treating other services as "external API", but monolith also do call "external API" and delegate work to async tasks. The principles discussed here API are interesting beyond just micro-services while being lighter and simpler than Durable Execution.

Don't bother. Moz management don't give a shit and haven't been giving a shit for a LONG time. It's like the f*cking magas, the more you tell them no, the more they double down ...

I'm done. Starting to look for an alternative.