Do Claude Skills enable anything that wasn't possible before?

Individuals who personally spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a year running agents? I would love to see one example.

> Even if you think that OpenAI’s growth is impressive — it went from 700 million to 800 million weekly active users in the last two months — that is not the kind of growth that says “build capacity assuming that literally every single human being on Earth uses this all the time.”

I’d argue the other way around: 100M growth in two months suggests literally every single human being on Earth would benefit from using this all the time, and it’s just a matter of enabling them to.

Beware the sigmoidal curve, though. Growth is exponential till it’s not.

Tariffs don't rebuild manufacturing capacity. All US citizens participate in a free market, as long as foreign labor is cheaper then American businesses have no incentive to participate in the economy. This happened when automotive assembly lines left for Mexico, when EUV lithography went to Taiwan, and to hundreds of other postwar industries that cannot support themselves without invasive and overreaching wartime subsidies.

The majority of America's economic value is produced in higher margin white collar jobs in the third sector anyways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_sector

Anyone can look at the graph and say for themselves that pivoting to manufacturing would kill the American economy as it has lived since the Reagan administration. It genuinely makes more sense for the US government to pay out-of-pocket for factories like China does, rather than applying tariffs that punish the economy for making smart and profitable decisions.

I have just created a task to find an alternative in case 4.x cannot be used anymore.

I have nothing against someone trying to monetise useful software. However, switching from an open-source software (OSS) licence is essentially a bait-and-switch tactic. This immediately destroys trust. It also destroys the part of the user base that is difficult to monetise but still has the potential to be monetised. I was hoping that the Elastic and TerraForm debacles had taught people a lesson.

Flyway is also questionable at this point. If Liquibase is switching, what's to stop Flyway?

Unless a fork is happening, I'm considering creating my own migration library tailored to our actual needs and usage. It should not be so hard. Liquibase was more of a convenience.