Because the rich can do it and we can’t.

I do it literally all the time.

You pirate other people’s works for profit all the time?

"As the CEO responsible for the asinine decisions that got us here, I am stepping down immediately, without severance."

Not to forget. "I am also returning all of my pay to company."

I feel like this would just select for business leaders that take zero risk.

I don’t think I’ve heard of a single tech CEO resigning for massively fucking up. They only “take responsibility” to the extent of saying those magic words.

Well there's the several billion of severance expense. I mean do we want to hang someone every time there are layoffs?

When tech workers finally unionize.

Then they should not pretend that they're still "engineers" working on a higher level of "abstraction".

"AI is an abstraction" only makes sense if working with a contractor to write your app is also an abstraction. An absurd dilution of the word "abstraction" to the point of meaninglessness.

No, it’s management, not engineering.

I disagree completely that what you describe is still “engineering.”

You are now a manager. In effect, you’ve consented to a career change.

I disagree. Even with agentic coding, you make engineering decisions.

Fortunately, the solution is trivial. Just spend a few hundred bucks on an artist.

Nah. Tax the shit out of me (and my peers).

I'm curious how the SPI to do this (e.g. `IOPortTransportComponentCCUSBPDSOP`) was discovered. There was nary a mention of it anywhere prior to release. Even Claude has to latch on to something. Always wondered if there was some way to read emarker data through some buried framework, but wasn't sure how to find it.

I don't think I can abide running vibe-coded software, but maybe I'll make a hand-coded fork now that the SPI is exposed. (Assuming it works correctly.)