So I can buy that in some circumstances it makes it easier to enforce if the rule is: ask website, website says yes or no.

I agree with your point overall though, I just don't think the number of newly enforceable cases will be zero.

I think that if I want to, when I get a job I can use my birth certificate to show I am a citizen... But that doesn't really show I'm a citizen, I might have renounced citizenship, etc. Then there will be some weird things, like if you have a birth certificate from Gibraltar, what does that mean?

If citizens also had digital ID, then you could implement a blanket rule for everybody: no share code, no access to anything. I think this would plausibly close some process gaps, but I don't know how big the delta is, maybe it's tiny.

Well, if you tell your employer you are a citizen (and therefore can't get a home office share code), they are supposed to look at your documents and keep a copy, which is offline and manual. An employer could ignore or misunderstand what they see, which then means they rely on other enforcement

Isn't it that if citizens don't have mandatory digital IDs, then you can't operationalise making digital ID a hard requirement to access government services, or even employment?

Doing it through an agent makes sense, as long as there is some sort of test of competency. When shell companies (e.g. American candy or Harry Potter shops reported on in London Centric recently), they sometimes have a UK based director who doesn't seem to know what a director is

Having been involved in setting up an entity overseas for legit reasons, in a jurisdiction with onerous requirements on director citizenship, I think you could probably weed lots of these out with a quick interview in person.

I think we are in a weird window where executives are rewarded for lack of critical thinking because it looks even worse to come out the other end as the guy who missed the big opportunity. Optimising for not being the next version of that quote about there being no market for iPhones.

Ironically, having high confidence with low information density is exactly what LLMs are great at.

Mine gave me half an image on the mobile app, but when I go to the web for the same request in the history it refuses

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Also interesting that it is a woman

IMO it's worse than this. Overly extravagant, VC style plans to be the new future of whatever, opening up new markets, etc. All subsidised by your customers at a time when interest rates are meaningful. I think it's time for some commodity SaaS