Any project is a sum of its parts, and if you’re talking about maintainability, then the parts you could easily point to would be things like high coupling, overly large file sizes, functions that are too big and should be broken up.

Meanwhile, your own link shows that it’s roughly within the ballpark of industry average. And if you look through issues for any large project on github you’ll see similar types of issues. Given how new the project is, none of this is really surprising or out of the ordinary.

As a note, nowhere did I suggest they do manual code reviews of everything at this speed. What I do think they have is a regression test suite which they build out as issues come up and they fix them.

I keep hearing people talk about trust, and it’s really doesn’t make sense to me because we’ve never done software development based on trust. Humans make mistakes all the time, and I’ve seen plenty far worse human code than anything an LLM has crapped out over my career. The way we ensure quality is through having a process. It’s done by having good specifications, testing, code reviews, planning, and so on. All these things equally apply to code written by hand and that’s generated by an LLM, and trust has nothing to do with it.

Can you point to which part specifically are you referring to here? https://github.com/storytold/photocraft

That’s only true for the US though. Electricity costs in China are a third of what they are in the states, and open models are now becoming very competitive. We can also see here that DeepSeek is already close to breaking even. The other factor is that models continue to get more efficient, and even local models like Qwen 27b can do serious work. Especially, when combined with good tooling. A coding harness that uses Qwen with five different roles scores as well as Anthropic Fable on the benchmarks.

I’ve been using them happily, and they do what I need. So, to me, this is real useful software that’s replacing proprietary solutions.

Thank you for further highlighting my point.

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Oh do explain how pointing out that you are troll spewing ignorant nonsense is misogynist. This ought to be good. Maybe don’t respond with utter drivel if you want people to respect you.

Nobody is talking about any Utopias, what’s being said is that the statement cannot be applied to USSR as you claimed. Also, USSR dissolved while you were living in a cave. Meanwhile, the oligarchy that’s destabilizing democracies around the world is the burger reich. Thank you for providing further proof that you are indeed a clown though. Also, why would I care if some ignoramus blocks me?

^ how to say you’re a clown without saying it

The industry in USSR was under public ownership, and that’s how the USSR achieved the lowest levels of income inequality ever seen in the modern era. Top 1% population owned 3-4% of total wealth and Top 10% owned 20-25%.

My point was that the right will always smear the left. What people on the left say is not going to change that one way or the other.

And I’m quite familiar with how dialectical materialism works having written a whole essay on the subject, which I dare say is a better intro than the wikipedia entry https://dialecticaldispatches.substack.com/p/the-toolset-of-reality

What I’m saying is that the video doesn’t discuss the mechanics of fascism, but rather how fascists see themselves and the narrative they use to promote their ideology. Understanding that is just as valuable as understanding how fascism function in technical terms.

I disagree they’re taking more power, what changes is the expression of power. During the good times, there’s no need to repress in overt fashion because the working class buys into the narrative. So, some freedoms can be allowed because workers are docile. When there is an economic crisis, the worker unrest starts, and that requires more direct measures to put down. However, the power was always with the ruling class.

Other systems such as feudalism share aspects with capitalism. There’s no contradiction here. One system evolved out of the other, and necessarily has shared characteristics as a result. Just like socialism retains aspects of capitalist society as well.

Meanwhile, arguing that these points will somehow be co-opted by the right-wing is a stretch.

I don’t really see anything anti-Marxist in explaining how the fascist narrative works. Madeline Pendleton clearly has a firm understanding of Marxism, as is clearly evident from her other videos where she talks about theory. The goal of this video was to focus on the narrative that fascists use.

Bourgeoisie already have power in any capitalist society because they are the ruling class under capitalism. Fascism is what happens when the mask of liberalism drops and the ruling capitalist class has to resort to naked repression to keep their power. Hence the points she lists are to do with the narrative fascists use to justify the social relations.

Just vassal states doing vassal things.

USSR was literally the first attempt at building a worker state, and it was demonstrably better than anything before it. On top of that, USSR was under the threat from the imperialist west throughout its whole existence. It was invaded by western powers in 1918, then plunged into WW2, and the Cold War right after that. Obviously, that forced the Soviet Union to develop in a way that made it possible to preserve itself. Blaming Stalinism here is frankly absurd.

was my first thought as well

For the big picture, we have to study what successful socialist projects like Cuba, China, Vietnam, and DPRK are doing. Cuba is obviously under incredible stress today and it might fall, but they’ve still managed to achieve incredible things over the decades. For more immediate action, I think that MAS in Bolivia is very much worth studying since they managed to organize an effective and militant worker movement there.

My hope is that China will start moving away from consumerism entirely. There’s no need to build an economy on vapid consumption in the first place. As the machines produce more and more of the things people need autonomously, that frees people up to do whatever they want with their lives instead of slaving away to meet their needs. China could start reducing work hours, and build things like sports halls, craft shops, art studios, workshops, where people can just creative and social with one another. Instead of going to the mall to buy stuff, you go do some activity that you enjoy with friends.

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