Parable of the mechanic who charges $5k to hit a machine on the side once with a hammer to get it working. $5 for the hammer, $4995 for the knowledge of where to hit the machine etc etc.

Nor does the cop who demands $100 for letting you go without arresting you.

But they're still responsible for their own personal piece of the rot in the system.

Is Tim the cop or the motorist in this example?

If a cop says your problems go away for $100, you pay it, because the downside is huge by comparison. The problem is the cop getting away with it, not that you paid the bribe.

I hope you’re not comparing a gold trophy to a straight up bribe. It’s like giving Trump your Noble peace prize.

Having the prize doesn’t make you the winner. But it feeds Trumps ego sooooooo muuuuuch, it’s probably the “best” thing you can do to get on his good side without actually giving him anything.

Ever seen a vibe-coded react app? It's astounding how well SOTA LLMs can produce good looking code in detail, but zoom out to the architectural or broader picture and it becomes an unholy mess.

It's like a masterpiece painted by an artist with their nose 5 inches from the canvas at all times.

Just teach backend engineers to do frontend pixel perfect CSS!

Different fields.

Workpersonship doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

Not yet...

Perhaps its because american hyperscalers want unlimited upside for their capital?

I never wanted to memorise trivia, like remembering flags on a certain cli command. That always felt so painful when I just wanted to do a thing

Isn't that kind of nuts?

They can't even properly beta test their new releases?

Agreed that beads seems way over engineered for an issue tracker.

It was ok until he bolted on Dolt