I... don't think you understand debanked. There is no movement OUT of your account. Deposits will be processed all day long. The intent is to tie up access to as many of your assets as possible. If you think anything of yours will just keep on going if you end up debanked, you're sadly mistaken. In addition, based on the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act as amended by the PATRIOT act, covered entities are forbidden from disclosing to you anything about why your account is frozen.
It's as close as you get to a complete shunning from modern society. You're reset to the cash you hold on you and keep custody of. And yes. In the U.S., the list that manages who can and cannot transact is centralized under OFAC. So it is at the whims of Executive whether or not any financial activity can be done with you.
The premise here is that you lose access to a European bank's mobile app because the US government compels Apple or Google to disable your app store accounts. Not that your relationship with the bank is frozen.
>the people who were all against copyright previously became ardent supporters of it overnight.
Oh, no, no. You misunderstand my friend. I might loosely be called one of those who was anti-copyright, but turn my desire to see it's draconian enforcement cranked up to 11 on corporations. I believe fundamental reform is necessary, however, if you're running a for profit enterprise, and have not in good faith with the laws of of the land, which let's be clear, AI companies absolutely haven't; there is no mercy deserved. If a grandma or teen can get saddled with life ruining punitive damages for something as innocent as filesharing, then these companies should not exist in any way shape or form in a functioning justice system as currently configured. That they do illustrates the woeful state of our State.
Mine had one over a decade ago. After graduating, the industry decided that developing everything we just got done establishing was unethical, was the hot topic to innovate for the next decade. I never worked at any of those places and still got burned ethically in much more indirectly unethical product streams in the finance and insurance sectors. To be honest, if there is really good money to be made at this point, there is a safe bet that if you dig deep enough, there is an unethical core to it. Most of my peers assuaged themselves with some variant of "I'm a programmer, not an ethicist, and philosophy doesn't put food on my table. So sadly, the problem seems much more systemic and a priori to the capitalistic optimization function.
Yes, but you see, that's all moot, because now, all those silly programmers we used to have to pay can be owned, don't have to be paid, can be spun up on demand, etc... As far as market forces are concerned, inferior process without labor cost still wins out.
Remove the developers - who writes the specs? Who reviews the output? Who debugs production at 2am?
Someone has to understand the code. That person is a developer regardless of what you call them. If nobody understands the code, you have vibe code - and vibe code has its own cost in hotfixes, rework, and rewrites.
The report covers this: replacing developers with agents requires three conditions to hold simultaneously - AI matches human general intelligence, AI matches human contextual understanding, and AI costs less. Currently the first one alone isn't met. The cost argument assumes all three are already true. Otherwise, you'll vibe code at enterprise scale.
Garbage In, Garbage Out. If you're working under the illusion any tool relieves you from the burden of understanding wtf it is you're doing, you aren't using it safely, and you will offload the burden of your lack of care on someone else down the line. Don't. Ever. Do. That.
When your society is structured around "sell yourself or die", and the people with capital enough to call the shots like it that way... This is what you end up with.
So what'd your prompt look like, out of curiosity? I hear about all these things that sound quite impressive, but no one ever seems to want share any info on the prompts to learn or gain insight from.
It was nothing special. I can't seem to pull up the initial prompt, but it was something like this:
> Build a thorough test suite for JMAP in this directory. The test suite will be run against multiple JMAP servers, to ensure each server implements the JMAP spec consistently and correctly. In this directory are two files - rfc8620.txt and rfc8621.txt. These files containing the JMAP core and JMAP email specs. Read these files. Then make a list of all aspects of the specifications. For each, create a set of tests which thoroughly tests all aspects of a JMAP server's behaviour specified by the RFCs, including error behaviour. The test suite should be configurable to point at a jmap server & email account. The account will contain an empty mailbox (error if its not empty). The test suite starts by adding a known set of test emails to the account, then run your tests and clear the inbox again. Write the test suite in typescript. The test runner should output the report into a JSON file. Start with a project plan.
If you haven't tried claude code or openai's codex, just dive in there and give it a go. Writing a prompt isn't rocket science. Just succinctly say the same things you'd say to a very competent junior engineer when you want to brief them on some work.
Is it such a stretch to assert that maybe the default for a large business shouldn't be "start doing evil shit"? Like, if all money is is aa social lubricant on doing sketchy shit, then there definitely is virtue to structuring things such that financial engineering can no longer work.
It's as close as you get to a complete shunning from modern society. You're reset to the cash you hold on you and keep custody of. And yes. In the U.S., the list that manages who can and cannot transact is centralized under OFAC. So it is at the whims of Executive whether or not any financial activity can be done with you.
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