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Why do the illustrations bear such a strong resemblance to those in the Gas Town article?

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Is it a nano banana tendency or was it probably intentional?


It's nano banana - I actually noticed the same thing. I didn't prompt it as such.

Here's the prompt I used, actually:

Create a vibrant, visually dynamic horizontal infographic showing the spectrum of AI developer tools, titled "The Shift Left"

Layout: 5 distinct zones flowing RIGHT TO LEFT as a journey/progression. Use creative visual metaphors — perhaps a road, river, pipeline, or abstract flowing shapes connecting the stages. Each zone should feel like its own world but connected to the others.

Zones (LEFT to RIGHT):

1. "Specs" (leftmost) - Kiro logo, VibeScaffold logo, GitHub Spec Kit logo

   Label: "Requirements → Design → Tasks"


2. "Multi-Agent Orchestration" - Claude Code logo, Codex CLI logo, Codex App logo, Conductor logo

   Label: "Parallel agents, fire & forget"


3. "Agentic IDE" - Cursor logo, Windsurf logo

   Label: "Autonomous multi-file edits"


4. "Code + AI" - GitHub Copilot logo

   Label: "Inline suggestions"


5. "Code" (rightmost) - VS Code logo

   Label: "Read & write files"


Visual style: Fun, energetic, modern. Think illustrated tech landscape or isometric world. NOT a boring corporate chart. Use warm off-white background (#faf8f5) with amber/orange (#b45309) as the primary accent color throughout. Add visual flair — icons, small illustrations, depth, texture, but don't make it visually overloaded.

Aspect ratio: 16:9 landscape


Since it's in French, here's the translation:

> They are lying to you. They keep repeating that "it's your money". It's false. It’s only a temporary access right that the system can take away from you with one click.

> I dared to criticize Palantir. A few days later, @getqonto deactivated my card, closed my account and blocked my funds. Without a word. I was erased, and I don’t believe in coincidences.

> When a "French unicorn" is funded by Peter Thiel’s millions, freedom of speech becomes a risk. Who really holds the switch to your life?


I'm curious about the final financial outcome: after all the rework, mistakes, and learning costs, did the project end up net positive, or was it ultimately a loss?

I use Leash [1] [2] for sandboxing my agents (to great effect!). I've been very happy with it, it provides strict policy-level control for all process-level + network-level activity, as well as full visibility and dynamic runtime controls via WebUI. Way better than bubblewrap imo.

I originally saw it here on HN and have been hooked ever since.

[1] Screenshot: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/99b9e199ffb820c27c4e977f2...

[2] https://github.com/strongdm/leash

Fun fact: Do you know what container / sandboxing system is in most widespread use? Not docker containers, certainly not bubblewrap, and not even full VMs or firecracker. It's Chrome tabs.


Using Chrome for anything seems like a security failure of itself. It's got great features, but damn do they come at a cost.

That's interesting, how does Chrome implement "sandboxing" in Windows and MacOS? For Linux, does it use the same underlying technology as Docker, Podman, LXD, LXC (cgroups, namespaces...)?

Or is a custom "sandboxing" implementation not relying on system level functions (eg. a VM with restricted functions)?

If the latter, I wonder if something like JRE or .NET CLR is still out there in larger numbers, but obviously, Chrome does have billions of users.


Yes, Chromium has "native" sandboxing on all those platforms, Windows [0] Linux [1] and MacOS [2].

Chromium uses both seccomp filtering as well as user namespaces (the technology that Docker/Podman use).

The Windows and MacOS sandboxing strategies are more "interesting" because I've seen very few (open source) programs that use those APIs as extensively as Chromium. On Windows, it makes use of AppContainer [3] (among other things), while on MacOS it uses the sparsely documented sandbox API [4], which I think was based on code from TrustedBSD?

[0] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/d...

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/sandbo...

[2] https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/sandbox...

[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/app...

[4] https://manp.gs/mac/7/sandbox


> certainly not bubblewrap,

Eh, it might be bubblewrap given it's what flatpak uses.


It's a shame browser makers removed FTP:// browsing support.

FTP was a lot more fun than the homogeneous blob of HTTP we have today. I only discovered FTP transparently via web browsing and clicking around as a kid.


When I was 12-13, I attempted to download the entirety of a linux install CD this way because I was unaware of FTP clients.

Could we build a web-based service that acts like an FTP browser for the internet?

Yes you could, but ftp:// links still won't be clickable, which kills the discovery aspect. :: sadblob ::

Sir, your comment appears to qualify as "moving the goal post". TSLA never delivered a single inexpensive electric vehicle, and just last week abandoned all high-end efforts (S/X/CT discontinued). All TSLA manufactures now are overpriced "meh" transport boxes. Yes, TSLA was early, and now they are far, far behind the competition.

Can we evaluate based on the stated goals, or why does the criteria keep shifting?


Tesla's goal was to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy by building a comprehensive ecosystem of electric vehicles (EVs), solar generation, and battery storage.

Looks to me they delivered on 2 of the 3


Yeah keep believing that...they wanted to become the Standard oil / Microsoft of EVs.

But they failed to achieve the market share of Microsoft and not to mention the lackuster significance of EVs compared to Personal Computers and GUI

You can attack Tesla and Musk from 1000s different angles due to their shananigans except the one true badge of honor for a company and CEO:

Sherman Act / Anti Trust for 90+ % market share in a sector which ought to be competitive


You provided literally 0 arguments to outline how they failed to achieve their stated goals.

It's implied. Everybody who does startups is competitive. Everybody who does a startup in SV is hypercompetitive.

You think the goal was to be the first through the glass take all the cuts that go with it and then pave the way for BYD ?

Tesla is no Apple, no Microsoft no Standard Oil. Valuations might make superficial people think that it , but it ain't


I explicitly posted their stated goal and you are resorting to extreme mental gymnastics to create a straw man. under 0.01% of all startups reach valuation of 10B less than 0.0001% of startups reach valuation of 100B

Tesla is no longer a startup.

Again, tech company, startup, visionary...all these definitions are being used but in reality we are talking about a company founded back in 2001

Also I specifically stated that people who look at valuations are those who fall for narratives as opposed to looking look the impact that a company or a product has on their lives.

I remember life before Microsoft's Windows 95, I remember life before the iPhone, before Google, I remember life before Facebook, I remember life before Amazon became ubuquitous, before Uber....

It was a completely different world, much more friction , lots of quality of life wasted by that friction.

Life before and after Tesla? It's the same....hence they failed to leave a mark on society like the aforementioned companies and fell back on financial engineering , cult leadership, cult following and politics as well as hostile takeover of the US governemnt.

You speak about valuation but if we want to use dollars as a unit of measure then what impact did Tesla have as a company on the quality of life of citizens considering the amount of capital it allocated or rather incinirated ever since 2001? Very few companies enjoyed the right to spend so much, where's the quality of life dividend for citizens?

Where's the Windows 95, where's the CHatGPT which changes things and makes people question how they managed to live productive lives before it came about? Nowhere to be seen


OK how all of these mental gymnastics relate to the claim the have not fulfilled their goals? Maybe they have not fulfilled your goals but they look to have fulfilled 2 of their 3 stated goals.

Goals are PR, In the last couple of messages you keep repeating goals , goals goals, as if their PR efforts should dictate if they are considered a success or a failure.

When you burn through hundreds of billions of dollars in capital in a very public manner you don't get to pick the goal, the goal gets to pick you and it's the following, and it's for everybody not just Musk or Tesla:

"Absolute domination in a new sector of the economy which changes the life of citizens so much so that they cannot fathom going back to life before such new tech/product' introduction and subsequent intervention of Government for Sherman act purposes / Anti Trust"

None of that will ever come to fruition as it was the wrong crusade to begin with considering that the population never really deeply wanted it and so it is being rightfully abandoned.

Considering the cultish nature of Tesla I'll make the following comparision:

If Companies logos are the new cross/star of david/ insert religious symbol then Tesla failed in their crusade. The remains of the wrong crusade enterprise is being picked up by others who might or might not get some satisfaction and returns out if it.


And now Tesla is hindering that transition.

Sure by building largest charging network and allowing to use their patents they are hindering that transition really badley.

No, by blocking other entrants to the US market through Elon's personal connections with the administration.

there are 100+ EV models available in US. The only "blocked" entries are Chinese brands which are skirting tariffs by using owned European brands e.g. Polestar, Volvo etc.

Funnel money from a public company to a private entity and then make it disappear. Poof! Magic.


Annoying is an understatement. Extremely hostile site.

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