In 1936, Keynes famously wrote that paying people to dig holes and fill them back up would boost the economy. Meanwhile, French economist Bastiat was spinning in his grave, having warned a century earlier about the "broken window fallacy" - the illusion that destruction creates wealth. When New Deal programs put thousands to work building bridges to nowhere, Keynesians cheered the employment statistics. But they ignored what Bastiat called "the unseen" - the private investments never made, the businesses never started, the innovations never pursued because capital was diverted to government make-work. Today's politicians still invoke Keynesian magic, claiming every trillion in deficit spending creates prosperity. They see the government jobs, the infrastructure projects, the GDP bump. They don't see the entrepreneur who couldn't get a loan, the startup that never launched, or the future growth sacrificed for today's political theater.

In Italiano: Books are here to survive.

One reason the masses rebel against AI is that they correctly assess that AI is most useful to smart people (not them). AI shifts human work from execution to orchestration, and orchestration is more cognitively demanding. Smaller and smaller teams of smart people will be able to deliver more and more, while cognitively modest haters fade into irrelevance

We don't own the IDEs, we don't own the hosting, we don't own the frameworks, we don't own the db engines, yet we've long since given up building any of those on our own. You're just having a hard time adapting, and that's OK.

If you are good at scoring on IQ tests, but not particularly imaginative, AI is in the process of making you obsolete.

In C programming, do not use: int, char, unsigned int, unsigned char... Please use: uint8_t, int8_t, int32_t, int64_t...

Remember when the biggest coding debate was React, Angular or Vue?