For that, we have to give control over clients to consumers. In the model of the past the company provides the client and so the client is accountable to the company not the consumer. Only the web browser has ever come close to changing that, but there's not many of us left still fighting for third party clients, even on the web

There's Drips that kinda works like this I think

I don't think it's fair to compare people who are already seemingly at the peak of their career, a place to which they got by building skill in coding. And in fact what they have now that's valuable isn't mostly skill but capital. They've built famous software that's widely used.

Also they didn't adopt the your-career-is-ruined-if-you-don't-get-on-board tone that is sickeningly pervasive on LinkedIn. If you believe that advice and give up on being someone who understands code, you sure aren't gonna write Redis or Django.

:'D

Now that's a sales pitch! You have my interest.

I didn't think that was AI writing at all. It used em-dashes, yes, but AI isn't capable of expressing such deeply human thoughts

GGGP normally uses '-' when they write comments.

Politicians aren't generally leaders, but rather followers. To force politicians to do something, lead where people follow you. But of course, paradoxically, this will by definition make you a practitioner of politics yourself... To quote from The Hunt for Red October, "Listen, I'm a politician, which means I'm a cheat and liar. When I'm not kissin' babies I'm stealin' their lollipops. But! It also means I keep my options open."

Being the agent of the user isn't particularly profitable. For example: companies want the users to be shown ads, and users generally don't want to be shown ads. But profit, which is to say money you make without having to directly work for it, comes from selling the user's interests away. Like, perhaps, choosing to take a bribe to cement Google's search monopoly, a fundamentally anticompetitive behavior which, even as it makes cash for Mozilla, costs the web far, far more.

They've lost their way completely as an independent entity, and a post like this that doesn't reaaally seem to grasp that weight of that conundrum comes no closer to convincing me that they can find their way back to the light.

It would vote democratic! They'd never do it in a million years for the exact same reason Puerto Rico isn't the 51st state already

There used to be a chess program in windows 3.1 that would destroy me every time. Not that I was very good, of course! But I think if you just code the known opening books it's not too hard to make a bot that requires a skilled player to beat.