While I have zero interest in defending or participating in the financialization of all things via crypto, there is a bit of nuance missing here.
BAGS is a crypto platform where relative strangers can make meme coins and nominate a recipient to receive some or all of the funds.
In both Steve Yegge and Geoffrey Huntley's cases, tokens were made for them but apparently not with their knowledge or input.
It would be the equivalent of a random stranger starting a Patreon or GoFundMe in your name, with the proceeds going to you.
Of course, whether you accept that money is a different story but I'm sure the best of us might have a hard time turning down $300,000 from people who wittingly participate in these sorts of investment platforms.
I don't immediately see how those left holding the bag could have ended up in that position unknowingly.
My parents would likely have a hard enough time figuring out how to buy crypto, let alone finding themselves rugpulled by a meme token is my point so while my immediate read is that pump and dump is bad, bad relative to who the participants are is something I'm curious to know if anyone has an answer for
If someone anonymous starts a Patreon to support your software project I'll assume that someone is you and it will take very strong evidence to change my mind.
It's so funny tho. If you post on reddit saying "my friend had a fight with his wife last night..." absolutely no one would believe it's really your friend. But somehow you say "uh so there is someone anonymous who launched a meme coin for my project..." people believe it's really someone anonymous.
This would seem to be inline with the development philosophy for clawdbot. I like the concept but I was put off by the lack of concern around security, specifically for something that interfaces with the internet
> These days I don’t read much code anymore. I watch the stream and sometimes look at key parts, but I gotta be honest - most code I don’t read.
I think it's fine for your own side projects not meant for others but Clawdbot is, to some degree, packaged for others to use it seems.
Eric had also once said in a CNBC interview "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
I'm sure I'm missing something but wasn't this already the case where the first time you try to install an APK, you had to go into Settings and mark the relevant application as a trusted source for installing APKs from?
Some friction is probably wise. I remember them introducing the requirement to individually allow each app you're installing things from. The question is, how much more friction will they add? I suspect they will add prompts per install, too.
> it was basically trying to reinvent Istanbul in a bash script because the nyc tool wasn't installed in CI
For the first part of this comment, I thought "trying to reinvent Istanbul in a bash script" was meant to be a funny way to say "It was generating a lot of code" (as in generating a city's worth of code)
To be clear, I don't believe or endorse most of what that issue claims, just that I was reminded of it.
One of my new pastimes has been morbidly browsing Claude Code issues, as a few issues filed there seem to be from users exhibiting signs of AI psychosis.
As someone who was perplexed, I've only heard perplex used in past tense (I was perplexed) so seeing "For the perplex" just made me confused as to what "perplex" meant and I had to do a further search to decipher this tree of comments haha
BAGS is a crypto platform where relative strangers can make meme coins and nominate a recipient to receive some or all of the funds.
In both Steve Yegge and Geoffrey Huntley's cases, tokens were made for them but apparently not with their knowledge or input.
It would be the equivalent of a random stranger starting a Patreon or GoFundMe in your name, with the proceeds going to you.
Of course, whether you accept that money is a different story but I'm sure the best of us might have a hard time turning down $300,000 from people who wittingly participate in these sorts of investment platforms.
I don't immediately see how those left holding the bag could have ended up in that position unknowingly.
My parents would likely have a hard enough time figuring out how to buy crypto, let alone finding themselves rugpulled by a meme token is my point so while my immediate read is that pump and dump is bad, bad relative to who the participants are is something I'm curious to know if anyone has an answer for
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