Huh? Even if progress somehow stopped, current models are already good enough to help -- and the quality of a given vibe-coded throwaway codebase will be higher the more recently it was created.
Love the manifesto. It perfectly describes the approach I adhere to and have encouraged many other engineers to adopt. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission. Open source means distributed maintenance. Many hands make light work.
Have to wait for the next Snowden before you get any citations.
NSA collaborator or not, the mere existence of something like Cloudflare, which also tries to nudge you into skipping internal http/tls and just use that at the front, makes it highly likely that NSA is already deep in their infrastructure, just like they've been in the past for literally any big technology company in the US.
But yeah, zero citations, zero evidence, just based on history and what the goal of the organization is, it's pretty clear what's going on already.
Ok, that makes sense. "Likely, based on heuristics" is sufficient to inform your opinions and decisions about Cloudflare. I was hoping you might have something more concrete, but appreciate the thoughtful reply.
Tangent: I found your blog in your profile and liked your post on "Good Taste"^1
This is just categorically different and epistemically dishonest. It is, frankly, an embarrassing attempt to defend the fact that you don't actually have any evidence to support the claim that Cloudflare is supposedly an NSA creation beyond "believe me bro, ever heard of PRISM?"
> actually have any evidence to support the claim that Cloudflare is supposedly an NSA creation beyond
I never claimed so, never would either, so who's being dishonest now?
What I've said is that NSA compromises everything they can get their hands on (lots of evidence of this), assuming that Cloudflare aren't compromised by NSA already would be foolish, but you're right, this is an assumption on my part, I won't claim I have proof of this, just like I don't have proof that the sun will rise tomorrow, but I do assume so too.
I'd recommend adding plugins one by one, either to solve a problem or as an isolated experiment, to ensure you fully understand what each does. I can vouch for each of these:
I don’t know at what threshold a complicated system becomes complex.
For example, at a level of scale, Kubernetes start having emergent behavior.
On the other hand, it doesn’t take much to produce a complex system. The Boids simulation is a complex adaptive system in the form of a flock, yet each member of the flock concurrently follows only three basic rules.
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