And where do they get it from? Where does the extra money come from?

Where does the extra money come from?

The blame trade. 💯

Selling plausible deniability.

Whitemail like the flip side of blackmail... the other invisible institutional currency of the system.

This is how I see democracy and institutional behavior in general, an elaborate shell game where we pass the buck until it gets lost.

And also a tragedy of the commons.

An endless recursive kayfabe, where each side takes turn "electing" the banker's next selection to manage us and absorb the blame, in the name of throwing out last season's heel.

Nobody ever got fired for choosing aws/java/palo alto/deloitte

I can't help but notice how effeminate it all is.

This is the opposite of soverinty.

We used to have kings.

And we'd cut off their heads if they betrayed us.


@nevent1qqs...

AI is a security nightmare and nobody wants to think about it. "Don't harsh my vibe, man." Prompt injection is especially evil.

On the upside, the insecurity of systems and information will create a lot of pressure and demand for pervasive strong cryptography. So maybe a win for freedom in the end.

No offense, but great software engineers will not agree with you that code is just mechanical. It has a mechanical component, but building great software is not the same as being a great ux designer plus mechanical code. Those are just the edges. There's much more in between that you are leaving out, and that's where great programmers live.

This vibecoding craze is just the same delusion that JavaScript has been inflicting for a long time on steroids—deluding people playing with ui tinker toys and application frameworks into thinking they are engineers.

Not saying that's you, but don't fall into that trap. The only way to become a great software engineer is to learn the machines, networks, data structures, algorithms, patterns and practices deeply while writing lots and lots of interesting programs.

Your not going to get that vibing.

Software engineering and architecture are an art that must be practiced to be learned

I always say to my teams:
"I hate code and I want as little of it as possible."

Which, I love to program, but code is a liability, as you say. Users pay for what they value and they don't value code.

Completely agree with both of you. There's an absolute tsunami of move-fast-and-break things consequences headed our way and everybody is just "vibing" on the beach.

I hope that they are going to support using a remote signer outside of primal as well.

Remote signer is like hardware wallet.
Client is like hot wallet.
The point is not just interop. It's key custody.

Primal does bootstrap a lot of people though, so this is progress.

Oh, thank goodness, I was worried you were in the cult. 🤖

Yeah, they're getting awesome and are going to get a lot more useful too.

Lots smaller and faster also, which will be nice. I want my AI at home and not on centralized servers.

I'm just being a smartass. Ignore me. 😁

How do you define agi?

I mean a lot of historical figures are retroactively gay these days.