It should be the duty of slopcoders to dissolve the market of any VC takeover immediately by standing up a carbon copy. Yes I know it’s not that easy, but it’s alluring to destroy big tech using big tech.

What they need to do: reinvent themselves. What companies do when profits are down anyway: squeeze your customers who are fully vendor locked until they are dead.

The property council publicly celebrated their influence over the nsw premier when he mandated RTO for public service. I maintain that we are gonna keep commuting until it runs dry because certainly commercial property investors and transurban can not withstand any reduction in profits.

It’s obvious to me that they always talk radical action and deliver just a tiny incremental change.

The cgt discount will be wound back, but I’m sure it will apply to a tiny fraction of assets under some qualifying criteria like only new sales and only on amounts under 10k (joking but you get what I mean). How are we still collectively thinking “this time they won’t back down”. Of course they will.

A guy on HN forked as “gram” https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram he doesn’t intend to pull everything from upstream

Prawn star was the best I’ve seen

My favourite take so far is the comparison to the introduction of the microwave. Some people really believed that they’d never have to cook again. So what we got was actually a way to make crap quality meals or reheat things when we don’t have time. This is roughly analogous to the output I get from the LLM.