I think Sam Altman is an asshole and I prefer to spend my money elsewhere.
Frontier models being commoditize is inevitable. OpenAI thinks they're still competing on technology, and not user experience and market reputation otherwise they'd understand the continuous negative PR generated by Altman's chaos is going to cost them everything.
You listed common items you think may be counterfeits, and all your effort in checking, but fail to mention av single time you _actually_ ran into a counterfeit. I'm sure if it occurred you'd happily mention it since it would do wonders in reinforcing the paranoia.
No. Why the hell would I use Angular 1.x style directives in 2026? For the simple contact form and todo apps, why would I even use client side scripting? Go away.
A private business can 100% refuse service to you. Examples with regards to "delegation":
- If you come in using a form of non-cash payment that doesn't belong to you.
- If you're purchasing a car, and are filling out paperwork under someone else's name. FYI, you can buy cars on Amazon.com.
- If you attempt to pick-up a pre-order or an item earmarked for someone else.
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Of course some businesses are more or less restrictive base on fraud chance, yada yada, but you get the idea. You're not being oppressed. Go shop elsewhere.
What is the regular API? How do you express all the integrations needed in this API? Who provides the integrations? Answering these questions lead you back to something like an MCP, which is an API contract that can be as generic or as specific as needed. Wasting context window to understand and re-implement each integration is why MCPs exist.
All the security issues are orthogonal, and occur regardless if invoking this API occurs via code or natural language.
_Telling the browser how you want the DOM manipulated_ isn't the expensive part. You can do this just fine with Javascript. The browser _actually redrawing after applying the DOM changes_ is the expensive part and won't be any cheaper if the signal originated from WASM.
It's winning by default because _there is nothing materially better_. React was _materially_ better than Ember, Angular, plain JQuery, etc. at the time.
Front-end engineers have no issues adopting new frameworks. See the common complaints about the speed front-end stacks change vs. say Spring MVC or Rails.
A more interesting examination is what is the impact of agentic AI tools being able to write better, more idiomatic code in React vs. Svelte because there's more of it. The human side is less of a barrier here.
I took a workshop class and was told to setup a track saw. The course didn't bother explaining how to utilize it properly or protect yourself. I ended up losing a finger. I truly hate Stanley Tools with a passion and if I ever need to use another track saw, I'll use someone else.
> I find it hard to believe this was the kind of environment he was cultivating at OpenAI if 95% of the staff were ready to follow him out the door.
I work for a startup that's on the cusp of having an exit event valued at 70 billion dollars. Drama within the board, who I have no connection with, has reduced the probability of that happening to 0. There's a chance another company will hire me and my co-workers and match our total compensation in liquid stocks we can actually sell.
It's really hard to imagine why I or anyone else would sign a letter that turns back the decision impacting the exit event or join the company that'll actually let me cash out the equity portion of my compensation. It definitely reflects my feelings for the CEO and not my own self interest.
The world doesn’t work this way. Not because it’s just or that there’s no corruption: it’s because there’s little benefit to Joe Biden. This is a high profile case. It’ll only trigger more scrutiny into everything. And Sam is an isolated, broke man with no friends. Why would anyone help him for money he’s already given?
Things that just work and are delight to use and the AWS Amplify CLI are not often mentioned together. The Amplify CLI is a growing collection of poorly thought out, poorly implemented functionality that looks good in demos, but falls apart under any close inspection.
tl;dr author finds it a hassle to set up proper encryption at rest and rationalizes away why they shouldn’t need to do it.
> You used the AWS default key to encrypt a database?
Don’t do that? Create a separate account to hold keys. Lock it down like you would your domain DNS or anything else with security implications that will impact your entire company.
Share granular read permissions across accounts as needed to encrypt / decrypt.
Agreed it’s time consuming to initially setup, but it’s a solved problem and can be implemented with your IaC flavor of choice (CloudFormation directly, CDK, Terraform, …).
For those curious, what was the outcome of this closed issue? Did Casey make a working terminal on Windows outside of a text renderer? Did Microsoft incorporate his feedback?
My worry is that Casey did this technical performance for the benefit of his followers, and nothing of value was gained, except of course Casey's growing fame.
People are walking out? Based on the former Blizzard employees, mostly white males, who have commented in previous threads, it didn't seem like a big deal.
Wonder why they're walking out on a nothingburger.
What systems are you working on? Many are held together by ritual, and deviating from the ritual causes outages. They’re very fragile in some form (deployment, change, infrastructure, dependencies, etc.). They won’t break if you follow the happy path, but to say they’re so robust that an active attempt at breaking won’t bring them down is ... naive? Not sure if that’s the word I’m looking for.
I say this as someone who’s worked at large tech companies that are “internet scale”.
The people most capable of taking the action items are assigned it. This could be expertise, resourcing, proximity, etc..
In an open discussion of the root cause, many times the issue is across multiple services / organizations within a company. You’d assign tasks appropriately across teams as needed. The key is to find and create actionables to address the root cause, not to punish / blame individuals.
Frontier models being commoditize is inevitable. OpenAI thinks they're still competing on technology, and not user experience and market reputation otherwise they'd understand the continuous negative PR generated by Altman's chaos is going to cost them everything.