In the video game Cyberpunk 2077, the "Net" is overrun by rouge AI and eventually humanity has to quarantine itself from them, ironically, using another AI.
That's true, but it's not quite the same thing. The single binary you're referring to is the interpreter and source code packaged together (at least for TS/JS).
If you install too many of these "single binaries" then at some point you would be better off just having a single interpreter and using npm/pip.
By contrast the Rust binary only contains the machine code for this program and can be directly executed.
I got it to write me an rsync like CLI for copying files to/from an Android device using MTP, all in a single ~45 min sitting. It works incredibly well. OpenMTP was the only other free option on macOS. After being frustrated by it, I decided to try out Opus 4.6 and was pleasantly surprised.
I later discovered that I could plug in a USB-C hard drive directly into the phone, but the program was nonetheless very useful.
> In the most lucrative enterprise market, the "good enough" bar is even lower than in the much less lucrative consumer market because the people who will actually have to use your tech aren't the ones buying it.
This reminds me of the time Citi lost $900 million due to terrible software [0].
I wonder if a similar fate awaits us?