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It's still early days, I'm hesitant to claim the death of software engineering. It's good now because LLMs were all trained on actual human output. One possible future is a slop death spiral.

I sure as hell am never again releasing human-authored open-source in a way that can be scraped. My Github is now relegated to the lowest quality slop from the cheapest models.

Right now KDE is "good enough" that I'm not looking for an alternative.

It's because people who drop $2k on a new phone will also spend $$$ for cool programs to go with it.


> The big reason why it became a behemoth is that it had great music support, and it was fashionable.

No, it was the touchscreen and new UI paradigms.


Seems like China is "skating to where the puck is going."


Once their clean tech manufacturing flywheel is at full speed and they have met the domestic TAM for EVs, solar, and batteries, they will point the clean tech printer at the world. And not a moment too soon, considering planetary boundaries and climate heating limits breached so far.

> In fact, in the first six months of this year, EVs in China displaced more oil than all of the UK used in the same period. A massive rise in electric heavy truck sales was responsible for the largest part of this oil displacement.

https://ourworldindata.org/electric-car-sales

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/installed-solar-pv-capaci...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-energy-generation-v...

https://robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?lang=en&freq=monthl...

China growth straining global auto shipping capacity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553327 - September 2026

Where Chinese EVs Are Selling the Most Worldwide - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/where-chinese-evs-are-selli... - March 4th, 2026

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525501 (citations)


Additional citation:

High Oil Prices Speed Up China’s Shift Away From Crude - https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/High-Oil-... - September 3rd, 2026


The mantra I've heard is "resist and replace." It's not enough to fight a bad habit, you have to (learn to) replace it with something constructive (i.e. fill the void).


Alice Cooper did this. He replaced his addiction with drugs for an addiction for golf.


Can you please summarize? I can't handle Burr's strident delivery for more than a few seconds.


I think he's doing fine? Sure, he got out of the video game industry, but that's for young people to burn themselves out.


I don't mean he's destitute. Just that he's no longer exceptional, which is fine.


But you were trying to refute my point of:

> I’d imagine those teenagers ended up with pretty good careers in technology?

The guy you mentioned doesn't seem to have ended up with a bad career in technology?


Thanks for clarifying. I read it as exceptional careers


Sorry, whenever I see a reference to a Mars bar, I have to post https://totl.net/VisibleMars/


"Please allow 4-6 weeks for shipping"


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