Besides anything you discussed, you are a very good writer.

Thanks for the laughs my friend.

I'm not at all sure you can make a blanket statement like this and expect it to be always true. This is classic Disruptive Technology stuff, and I'll spare everyone the tedious explanation of how the typical trajectory will go.

Yes there will tons of garbage, but of course there will be the 1% of the 1% who spend the time and efforts to, perhaps, create something of equal and perhaps better quality than what has come before.

We wanted flying cars, but instead got fake AI.

Shameful.

Typically, scams like this are very top-heavy with the vast majority of the pilfered cash going to a few well-placed "bros" at the top of the company pyramid.

My guess? Most of the cash is socked away in BTC or some such wealth sink just waiting for the individuals to clear their bothersome legal issues.

> My guess? Most of the cash is socked away in BTC

Had they done this years ago they would be so rich it would be worthy keep builder.ai going just to avoid legal problems.

Spoken like a man who has never had to write a payroll check in his life.

Of course human ownership is preferable, but it's also crazy expensive and since the point of all corporations is to "increase shareholder value" (not "gainfully employ workers"), well then all your talk of responsibility-here-and-there is quite touching but absolutely misses the point.

Economics is driving this bus, not quality and most certainly not responsibility.

Of course! But just look at all the pretty lights all that energy is flashing.

Just wait until v2...it will probably get you laid in the local singles bar.

Of course. Why would you expect anything but? Pride is actually a very good driver of change if you ask me because people often do their best work when they are proud of what they are building.

Perhaps ego is a better term. Concretely, why migrate hotmail from unix to Windows except due to ego? The NPV has to be negative here.

Maybe because it'd be unwise to put an algorithm in control of human safety when it can't even tell that 9.9 is larger than 9.11?

Would you say handling air traffic control is easier than setting up a LAMP server?

Some people might just like the rolling release model, huge software library through AUR and good documentarion.

Not at all. The point is to have a rolling release, up to date, mostly unpatched Linux distribution.