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 (DIR) Post #AhqwvbJ1ZvHpuKESIa by baldur@toot.cafe
       2024-05-02T14:49:46Z
       
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       React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/
       
 (DIR) Post #AhqwvcFA5ln6odQsuu by baldur@toot.cafe
       2024-05-02T14:50:48Z
       
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       I postponed this post a day in the hopes I'd mellow down a bit and be able to tone the post down a bit. I failed. 😅
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahqwvd395vm1JeonpI by blabaere@mastodon.social
       2024-05-02T16:06:12Z
       
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       @baldur Do you think the same explanation holds for older stuff like Visual Basic or Java (before J2EE and Spring) ?
       
 (DIR) Post #AhqwvdWvJDaoo0kaEy by baldur@toot.cafe
       2024-05-02T16:39:31Z
       
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       @blabaere Possibly. Haven't looked into it enough to be sure but that feels plausible, at least for the old "write once, run everywhere" era of Java hype
       
 (DIR) Post #AhqwveJ8Py9pDXJ5O4 by blabaere@mastodon.social
       2024-05-02T17:00:18Z
       
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       @baldur It now seems to me that "labour arbitrage" and "democratization of tech" are two sides of the same coin.Except the coin is oddly shaped so the sides are not really symmetric.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhqwvencacXmk5ZQuG by baldur@toot.cafe
       2024-05-02T22:46:31Z
       
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       @blabaere Yup. Systems are complex and have both benefits and downsides that vary depending on context. No easy answers.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai0eNioRJ5dJkVDm0u by davenicolette@mastodon.social
       2024-05-02T15:12:10Z
       
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       @baldur The tone is fine.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai0eNjmhh1q4lPPtwm by baldur@toot.cafe
       2024-05-02T15:15:48Z
       
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       @davenicolette 🙂👍🏻
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai2EEmX9tQJMBy8Otk by overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
       2024-05-02T20:38:40Z
       
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       @blabaere @baldur Java is definitely an example of Baldur's argument.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ai2iVURHQ4J9cUGfzs by raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
       2024-05-02T14:52:30Z
       
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       @baldur I know you're mostly joking, but when I postpone a passionate post and I still want to make it the next day, that validates that it's not a knee-jerk reaction motivated by thirst for likes and boosts or in-the-moment anger.