He doesn't use any of this crap. He also wouldn't go within 100 feet of the vast majority of his supporters if he wasn't working an angle.

Please tell me they're using Workplace.

I've had nothing but good experiences with them and their docs and tutorials are excellent.

> billions down the drain that could have gone into building more efficient LLMs instead.

Or any one of thousands of other ventures which could be more beneficial to humanity, the environment, etc.

Agree, though if he's so fixated on AI, and Meta has released plenty of things in AI that have affected the industry in general, he could invest in making less resource intensive LLMs.

Or at least profit margins.

True!

This is really neat.

Something I've been meaning to do is try putting together a cross-lisp package manager -- if only because it'd be fun. Maybe it would favor code that could be readily run or eval'd or maybe with some sort of clj/cljs type dynamic dispatch for anything implementation specific.

Indeed.

His podcast, _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_, is an entertaining, informative and (often) touching listen, too.

For those able to contribute a bit monetarily, he's also got a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/textfiles

I love his podcast, and was able to back it for about a year.

It's truly baffling. We're hurting ourselves and helping our fri/enemies with one stroke.

What point are you trying to make by sharing this?

The inclusion of comments about LLM generated code don't bother me and will probably be quite revealing (for better or worse) when people read this post in the future.

Also, I have not been following the d2d development of vim closely after Bram's passing but I can't help but wonder what he'd have thought about this approach to development of vim.

> that muscle memory

Once in a while I will mistakenly dump a string of keystrokes into insert mode or another application. That literal output always amazes me because the construction of those strings is so far removed from my brain's "main thread".

The inverse is if I try to write a helper function or explain to someone else how I did something they observed and I need to methodically document each action. It's like trying to describe how to walk or something.