Abolishing private property is another way of defanging power
Has this been tried successfully anywhere? Seems like mostly a dead end as long as we have resource scarcity.
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eikenberry commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
Reducing the size of the government just makes it where billionaires and corporations control everything instead, which we're already seeing now. You'd need a way to reign in their power/wealth as well.
+1... Reducing government is part of power reduction, not the sum total. To reduce the size of government you need to reduce the size of things it manages. So, for instance, anti-trust would need a huge buf in enforcement to eliminate concentrations of power in business. I'd think strongly progressive inheritance tax would cover the rest.
Define investment in this case. He's the cofounder of HashiCorp. I guess you could refer to his equity as an investment here, but I don't really think it tracks the same in this context.
He may have a vested interest, but he did cofound HashiCorp as an engineer that actually developed the products, so I find his insight at least somewhat valuable.
He no longer has equity. Hashicorp was purchased by IBM in a cash deal.
The guy who wrote the post is a billionaire
Is he? Source? I didn't think he made that much from the Hashicorp sale.
I skimmed over it, and didn’t find any discussion of:
- Pull requests
- Merge requests
- Code review
Yes, we know that functional code can get generated at incredible speeds. Yes, we know that apps and what not can be bootstrapped from nothing by “agentic coding”.
We need to read this code, right? How can I deliver code to my company without security and reliability guarantees that, at their core, come from me knowing what I’m delivering line-by-line?
The primary point behind code reviews is to let author to know that someone else will look at their code. They are a psychological tool and that, AFAIK, don't work well with the AI models. If the code is important enough that you want to review it then you should probably be using a different, more interactive flow.
Mitchell talks about this in a round about way... in the "Reproduce your own work" section he obviously reviewed that code as that was the point. In the "End-of-day agents" section he talks about what he found them good for (so far). He previously wrote about how he preferred an interactive style and this article aligns with that with his progress understanding how code agents can be useful.
eikenberry commented on It's 2026, Just Use Postgres tigerdata.com/blog/its-20... · Posted by u/turtles3
No thanks. In 2026 I want HA and replication out of the box without the insanity.
Came to say the same thing. Personally I'd only touch Postgres in a couple cases.
1. Downtime doesn't matter. 2. Paying someone else (eg. AWS) to manage redundancy and fail-over.
It just feels crazy to me that Postgres still doesn't have a native HA story since I last battled with this well over a decade ago.
>The people really leading AI coding right now (and I’d put myself near the front, though not all the way there) don’t read code. They manage the things that produce code.
I can’t imagine any other example where people voluntarily move for a black box approach.
Imagine taking a picture on autoshot mode and refusing to look at it. If the client doesn’t like it because it’s too bright, tweak the settings and shoot again, but never look at the output.
What is the logic here? Because if you can read code, I can’t imagine poking the result with black box testing being faster.
Are these people just handing off the review process to others? Are they unable to read code and hiding it? Why would you handicap yourself this way?
I think many people are missing the overall meaning of these sorts of posts.. that is they are describing a new type of programmer that will only use agents and never read the underlying code. These vibe/agent coders will use natural(-ish) language to communicate with the agents and wouldn't look at the code anymore than, say, a PHP developer would look at the underlying assembly. It is not the level of abstraction they are working on. There are many use cases where this type of coding will work fine and it will let many people who previously couldn't really take advantage of computers to do so. This is great but in no way will do anything to replace the need for code that requires humans to understand (which, in turn, requires participation in the writing).
Reading and understanding code is more important than writing imo
It’s pretty well established that you cannot understand code without having thought things through while writing it. You need to know why things are written the way the are to understand what is written.
eikenberry commented on Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux blog.senko.net/sandboxing... · Posted by u/speckx
Really well targeted!
I'd been thinking of using toolbox or devcontainers going forward, but having to craft containers with all my stuff sounds so painful, feels like it would become another full-time job to make containers
Bubblewrap & passing in a bunch of the current system sounds like a great compromise!
I do wonder what isolation something like systemd-run can offer, if that is enough.
Part #2 to me, I also want observability as to what the agent changed. That was one place where containers are such a clear & huge advantage! Having an overlay that contains the changes to the filesystem is so explicit. There's also works like agentfs, that offer a FUSE filesystem backed by Turso DB (sqlite compatible).
Bubblewrap supports overlayfs mounts [1]. Seems like you should be able to replicate that flow with it.
eikenberry commented on Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux blog.senko.net/sandboxing... · Posted by u/speckx
`useradd` doesn't restrict network access.
Without any credentials does network access matter?