It’s nice to see these remarks every now and then, really throws humanity back into us amidst our anger. Sometimes I think world leaders could use a bit of that lol

For all I bet most of us know, he could be a big POS, but he could also be someone normal who just happens to be son of a world leader. I just don’t forecast getting worked up over the political life of a no-name son is quite the healthiest approach.

I was gonna say, much as I wanna do work from home myself, I’d say the whole gestures broadly at everything economic during COVID definitely has a bit more of an impact on company profits during that time period.

It takes a bit of personal analysis into the product’s direction to see this stuff coming. Cape was founded and rapidly advertised in sponsorships, YT ads, loads of influencers, etc. Say it with me now, that sounds like investor capital! Truth be told, y’all should probs check for those signs when seeing adverts or sponsorships, it can tell a lot about the behind-the-scenes connections of the company.

This is in comparison to, while not perfect (nor exactly the same product), Phreeli, which doesn’t appear to have this massive investor capital money behind it, thus a lesser budget for advertising.

That’s kinda what I’m trying to get at. Like yeah, it sucks to see, but between being worried about this v.s. an additional 10% tariff globally, one of those will impact my life much more substantially.

Gotta be real chief, I’m gonna oppose the crowd here and ask it: What’s the big deal here?

Like, its definitely not a good look, but is this really significant enough to devote any mental energy to?

As far as my applications for open-sourcing goes, AI has actually done a good number on assisting it.

I’m a DIY sort of person, and use a lot of software for things like ESP32 boards to complete niche tasks. The problem is that very many applications just didn’t have some preexisting code made for it, so it took a much larger load for me to try programming it by hand. In recent years, I’ve had a much easier time finding software for things, and sure enough, many of these projects have some mention or disclaimer about AI.

I know AI brings its own problems with it, namely that of code produced with lesser-optimized techniques, but the alternative I had to deal with was simply no premade code at all.

That being said, many of these projects did die out after AI was implemented, but not because the community was less interested, or the developers were less caring. These projects died because they reached their end goal, they did exactly what you needed it to do, no more or less. Far as I’m aware, that sounds like a successful outcome.

I have pondered this a little, as to why this seems to be the route the administration is taking. The best explanation I’ve had is that Trump is taking a card from China’s playbook.

Several years back, China weakened their currency with the goal of creating an environment that’s more embracing to external companies wanting to setup manufacturing plants in their borders. With how this administration is speaking about boosting manufacturing, I can see these two narratives being in conjunction with one another. The problem I see here, though, is that those jobs were spurred on by lower wages as a result of that weaker currency, which I don’t quite see as a goal the US should be striving towards.

Yes, given enough time, it’ll pay itself back off, but this still seems like a subpar avenue, especially as one of those American workers that’ll feel the impact. Whether that’s truly the result or goal is anyone’s guess, best I can do is speculate.