This isn't ‘'renting a server.' It's leasing access to a whole sprawling, capital-intensive, technically-capable system that must be just as available in Cairo as in Capetown, just as functional in Bangkok as Berlin. Particularly given the high stakes use cases of many who rely on Signal. 6/

None of the above changes with AI tools generating code.

So if AI tools can generate code faster (and more of it with less effort), ask yourself: what will happen?

(*For my complex systems friends, "accident" in the sense of Normal/System Accident, not "whoops." Though, I'm sure there's some whoops too...!)

Some of the suggestions: lighter weapons, more flexible blades, better control (ok, everyone should be doing _that_ one anyway).

Maybe there's no level of adequate protection against someone cranking a 900g sabre.

Consider though: if your role is to write stuff (be it code or not code) then you probably also want to be good at writing stuff, and you get better at writing stuff by writing stuff.

I feel like I have to caveat that I am not all on the "LLMs bad" train. There are some neat use cases when they aren't stealing from artists or threatening to shear reality with generative video or, y'know, all the other stuff.

I often think about what a huge loss it was (for us, at least) that we didn't get you on our side of the org chart.

Is this a good post? I don't know! But I do hope you draw some neat ideas from it, even if your conclusions are different than my own.