I think the billionaire class will expand BNPL type products so everyone will stay in-debt forever. And expand gig economy so everyone can stay "employed" forever.

Employed doing what? At some point, we'll have autonomous tractors, autonomous techs to fix those tractors, autonomous cars and delivery vehicles, robot plumbers, AI doing information work.

Employed doing...what?

If we reach a point where all labor is automated, then realistically we should have achieved post scarcity utopia at that point. If not, the only realistic options are some form of UBI, or state sponsored make-work. Grow the bureaucracy, the state employs people to do BS fake jobs. Audits, compliance, oversight. Middle-management type work just to continue the illusion of a work for income social contract.

Some may argue we have already reached the point of nonsensical compliance, audits and middle-management propping up the illusion of work.

I never quite understand why /mcp endpoint is needed.

You can still keep using Rest API with swagger docs and tell the AI to read the swagger docs. It's the same thing. The entire Rest API specification is a lot more flexible than the JSON RPC format /mcp uses.

MCP is fine for exposing tools that don't have APIs, but wrapping an API is an MCP is fine if you like consistency.

Personally, for just tools, I wire up tool calls with context captured via system prompt.

rest api with swagger docs requires one extra hop to pull the details necessary to interact with the api, and it pollutes context in a similar way as mcp.

ideally what you would have is skills + scripts that the agent can load progressively to interact with the api

or even better: a single cli tool the agent is aware of, and which combines `--help` output with `tldr` tips, when the command is incomplete, and prints out helpful error messages when the incantation is wrong

where did you see the price in the landing page?

> People used to proudly use Vi to write code. But now IDE is commonplace.

this is funny because I met many software developers who did not have a, let's call it "Unix hacker background", who only ever used Git through an IDE. Now sometimes when they need to log into some system and use the commandline they are lost because they are neither familiar with a shell environment (readline and stuff) nor the Git commands.

I guess you can work that way but that's not for me, because I want to understand stuff. Of course I also use an IDE but I don't rely on it.

> People used to drive manual. Now it’s all automatic transmission.

Maybe in the USA. Here in Czechia, people generally hate automatic transmission cars.

> People used to proudly use Vi to write code. But now IDE is commonplace.

Plenty of developers use Vim and Neovim, which have numerous advantages over “modern” IDEs.

What if PyTorch is extended to have a pluggable compiler? For M GPU types and N models, if the backend allows, run a specialized compiler?

I know a lot of people use private conversations with chatbot as a replacement to journaling which is a form of self therapy.

So… those can be aired willy nilly too then. They are out on public clouds now.

have to use a local llm for that if thats how you wish to use them.

But your local logs can be requested as well

You need a rigorous and enforced deletion policy setup years before you get subpoenaed.

As someone who recently retired early, you really need to have a solid game plan on what you want to do with all the time you have. Spend a solid 3-6 months planning and mocking your post retirement days while still working.

The more detailed the plan the better. If you want to go to the gym, what will you do there and for how long and how many days a week?

If you want to have a tech side project, how many hours do you plan on spending on this project? And be reasonable. Don't trade one burnout over another.

If you are planning to learn something new, what are those? and don't just learn one thing. 8 hours plus is a crazy amount of time.

One of those plan should include making new friends post retirement, revolving around activities that are not work related.

It is far too easy to lose track of time without a brand new schedule to fill the void.

So news about OpenAI demise is real. They can’t sustain themselves without ads.

Never in any world were any of the top AI labs not going to sustain themselves with ads. It has always been a timing issue.

Even a cut on every sale on site + sub rev not close.

Even if it wasn't necessary for their survival, it's hard to imagine a world where they wouldn't try to do it anyways. I'm not someone who buys into the idea that companies are obligated to maximize profits at the expense of all else, but I do think that in the absence of other factors (e.g. regulation) it's where pretty much every company will end up.

"the idea that companies are obligated to maximize profits at the expense of all else"

!! That is literally the definition of legally-binding fiduciary resonsibility for publicly-traded corporations. There are exceptions (PBCs, B-Corps) but they're rare.

Please cite your source for this. Everything I've ever read on the topic indicates that this is a vast oversimplification.

This is a completely stupid take and I have no idea why so many people repeat it. This responsibility just means you have to have to document your work understandably and have a somewhat sensible reason for decisions. It does not at all force you to greed.

It's really not though.

They can’t be hemorrhaging cash when they IPO.

I agree. Data and userbase are still the moats.

Once a new model or a technique is invented, it’s just a matter of time until it becomes a free importable library.

I have to ask, what is the difference between this and private WhatsApp groups?