No, robbery. They’re paid for with tax revenues, which are collected without consent. Taking of someone’s money without consent has a name.
Have you ever stopped to consider why class mobility is much much less common in Europe than in the USA?
It's a common idea but each time you try to measure social mobility, you find a lot of European countries ahead of USA.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/15/social-mobil...
Indeed.
I would say for the last 6 months, 95% of the code for my chat app (https://github.com/gitsense/chat) was AI generated (98% human architected). I believe what I created in the last 6 months was far from trivial. One of the features that AI helped a lot with, was the AI Search Assistant feature. You can learn more about it here https://github.com/gitsense/chat/blob/main/packages/chat/wid...
As a debugging partner, LLMs are invaluable. I could easily load all the backend search code into context and have it trace a query and create a context bundle with just the affected files. Once I had that, I would use my tool to filter the context to just those files and then chat with the LLM to figure out what went wrong or why the search was slow.
I very much agree with the author of the blog post about why LLMs can't really build software. AI is an industry game changer as it can truly 3x to 4x senior developers in my opinion. I should also note that I spend about $2 a day on LLM API calls (99% to Gemini 2.5 Flash) and I probably have to read 200+ LLM generated messages a day and reply back in great detail about 5 times a day (think of an email instead of chat message).
Note: The demo on that I have in the README hasn't been setup, as I am still in the process of finalizing things for release but the NPM install instructions should work.
Why did you squash 6 months of work in two commits ?
It's hard to make *one* good product (see startup failure rates). You couldn't make 12 (as seemingly a solo dev?) and you're surprised?
we've been working on Definite[0] for 2 years with a small team and it only started getting really good in the past 6 months.
0 - data stack + AI agent: https://www.definite.app/