Restrictions have dimensions. I have enjoyed working in highly cooperative situations where we had restrictions of resources and rules but no restrictions in terms of allowing us to find solutions. Infact those solutions were celebrated by my manager who had to work within the confines of rules and resources defined for him. It was great fun.

That sounds like a very good environment. There are always restrictions, just maybe not major and/or ones that seem arbitrary.

It's not cost saving, it's deliberate differentiation.

Isn't it definitionally both?

Of course. At the same time, the cost saved is so little that you can reasonably discount it as being a meaningful contributing factor in this case.

Seems like vacation from things you have to do to things you enjoy doing.

Exactly that, I have too many ideas for side-projects and never enough time for them.

The main activity was still the traveling, hiking and enjoying some calm time. But instead of spending the usual downtime reading or something else, I had a blast coding and experimenting.

According to Google AI > A vacation (American English) or holiday (British English) is a designated period of time for rest, recreation, or travel, often taken away from home. It involves a break from work or school routines, usually lasting several days or weeks. Vacations are crucial for mental health, reducing stress, and fostering better relationships.

So maybe different meaning for everyone. For me it’s getting away from technology and into nature.

> a break from work... are crucial for mental health

When I'm hacking on my Linux desktop automation scripts on my free time, I can assure you that my good mood is positively contributing to my mental health.

> So maybe different meaning for everyone.

Indeed.

If only they were willing to change their affiliations as easily as they do change their hair color.

The only solution that I've found to work, somewhat, is to plan with it to design the APIs exactly how you want it, atleast the public facing ones. It still does all kinds of mess in the functions but those are easier to cleanup on the next iteration cycle. If you let it design everything, it'll definitely go overboard.

I have come to the same conclusion. I'm thinking it more like "raising" these subagents via iterations and tuning until they are "grown-up" and basically become reliable. Thats why even though I can setup a team pretty easily via claude code, I don't see the benefit until the would be team members are reliable. Once the main subagents are solid, we can move on to build a team by pointing them to these subagents - atleast thats what I'm thinking in my one-step-at-time slow way. Most probably overcautious and maybe even wrong but if I'm seeing a subagent doing weird stuff across many executions, I can't build much in terms of layers on top of it.

Nationalisation is an option worse than the advantage of having the companies at their whim and command while keeping them around as a separate entities for blame-gaming and convenience based distancing.

I am sick and tired of these teenagers and their sharing of bash oneliners on insta.

Obviously the solution is to ban their use of all social media so those pesky bash oneliners can't be shared in the first place!

Absolutely not, that would prevent profits to big political donors. Instead we should ban bash oneliners, or ID gate them. No loops or pipes (etc) unless you've handed over government issued ID.

Then we can build a centralized database of government IDs and use them to make deepfakes, send spam in the mail and perform identity theft. Genius!

I tried to sign-up with Hetzner instance last night - after all the signup etc, it expects me to enter my passport information for "verification". Fuck that.

I re-tried Firefox couple of weeks ago, in the latest episode of a series of tries to "finally" migrating to it. Same CPU fans blowing like jet engines randomly. None of that with Vivaldi (which is anyway all Chromium/Blink underneath) - so came back to it.

Firefox has so many nice things like containers but basic performance issues are still unresolved.

I think that depends on what sites you are using/things you are doing with it. The only time the fans turn on for me is one specific dashboard in Home Assistant. Nothing else I connect to even moves the needle on temperature/CPU use