Oct 13, 2026, 10:44 AMthe thing about saying "one day they'll learn" is that the reason we have stories like "the hare and the tortoise" is that people don't
no-one loses on a scratch card once and thinks "i should stop here"
we have a whole "you lose 100% of the scratchcards you don't buy" mentality here
if people learned from consequence the world would be a much nicer place
Oct 13, 2026, 10:46 AMcall me old fashioned but i don't really think the future of programming is per-request billing to defence contractors set on destroying the internet
or at least, a future we should aspire to
Oct 13, 2026, 10:49 AMsorry i read a very bad blog post about our new agentic future and the need for better sandboxing because the guy couldn't get the computer to stop deleting the code over and over and yeah i simply haven't been kicked in the head enough for this future
@tef May I borrow "I simply haven't been kicked in the head enough" with or without attribution, as you would prefer?
@tef safe bet