I don't like the idea that I'm restrained by intellectual property laws, but that other powerful entities are not. That is fundamentally unfair.

That attitude is particularly galling. Along with the "lock in now or become part of the permanent underclass".

It's interesting more people haven't talked about this. A lot of so-called agentic development is really just a very roundabout way to perform metaprogramming.

At my own firm, we generally have a rule we do almost everything through metaprogramming.

No kidding. So far the complexity introduced by LLM-generated code in my current codebase has taken far more time to deal with than the hand-written code.

Overall, we are trying to "silo" LLM-generated code into its own services with a well-defined interface so that the code can just be thrown away and regenerated (or rewritten by hand) because maintaining it is so difficult.

Yeah, same. I like the silo idea, I'll have to explore that.

I'm relieved to hear this because the LLM hype in this thread is seriously disorienting. Deeply convinced that coding "by hand" is just as defensible in the LLM age as handwriting was in the TTY age. My dopamine system is quite unconvinced though, killing me.

For many types of workloads (like AI inference), high availability is not needed for individual racks.

I have stopped spell checking, grammar checking, and generally doing a lot of editing of my writing so that it feels more authentic. I have also had to give up my habit of prolific use of emdashes.

Seems like a very good case to get storage and power backup in people's homes. Industrial users could install their own gas fired generators. Residential consumers could have simple battery based backup, or even a generator which would double for helping during powerouts.

Bigger question is why they haven't already - these trends have been in place for a very long time and this current phase of the UK energy crisis has been on display for years. Anything legal and cost effective would have been done by now if the market had anything to say about it. Which suggests something odd is afoot. Maybe storage is more expensive than gas, maybe the UK government has regulated the option out of existence. Maybe something else.

Probably because it doesn't make economic sense to install storage prior to renewables being so substantial that you start having to curtail.

Not quiet. Your profits from the business will just get taxed as a CA resident to your personally.

If an LLC does activity in California, it's subject to income apportionment in CA.

The U.S. is not a great place for offshore business registration mostly because the reporting requirements around taxation for foreign-owned businesses are so severe. It's just a lot of useless paperwork.

> reporting requirements around taxation for foreign-owned businesses are so severe.

What exactly are you referring to? This doesn't match my experience at all.

It depends on which direction you are referring to the ownership flowing.

I was shocked to install Windows 11 in a VM today for some throwaway purpose I needed (specifically, proving that some piece of software that's 3 years old will absolutely not work on up-to-date Windows 11), and was not required to use a Microsoft account. Just prompted to make a local account and that was it.

Which Windows 11 sku did you use for that test?

I selected Pro. Downloaded the ISO from Microsoft yesterday.