Specialization is for insects. And on the contrary of what you say the real world show plenty of reasons to diversify: For example, the success of China with renewables and EVs shows exactly that:

Every single EV company in the US wanted to be like Tesla, it was like an idée fixe, most of them failed miserably compared to BYD.

Argentina is orders of magnitude more white than the US and yet, argentinians face the same issues as morocans in the US migration system.

Yeah, assuming you don't marry in the US, and don't have kids. But surely, you can think about it in your home country after working 20 of the best years of your life.

You can marry in the US and have kids and still move somewhere else 20 years later. Don’t Americans move to Florida or whatever to retire? If you’re moving that far you can just as well leave the country lol

Most developers can’t see AI slop because their level of competence is actually below what an AI can produce.

Technical debt was a reality before vibe coding. Someone was writing all that trash by hand.

Windows have a incredible degree of architectural coherence and design intentionality.

It is far easier to understand some part of the various NT source code leaks than it is to understand Claude code leak

This comment is true on both points: Dave Cutler certainly knew what he was doing.

Even a bad developer, that is, the average developer, develops a whole in which the parts have some degree of coherence. AIs simulate that, but they don’t have intent and thus this coherence is broken in large code bases.

Sometimes you have to die to get back stronger. Ask the chinese.

I'm not sure that works for democracy. Autocracy is basically the default human state. All it takes to build it back up is a sufficiently powerful faction. Democracy is relatively fragile by comparison and requires more specific initial conditions - I would make the argument that democracies are the lower entropy condition.

Ask the Germans what happens when a democracy degenerates.

That's a good example. The west forced reconstruction of German democracy. If the Nazi state had been less aggressive it might have still been around today as a North Korea style autocratic state.

Most right-wing politicians behind this kind of thing have no idea how much foreign students are essential for american scientific and technological leadership.

If they are so hell bent on keeping the "Empire at all costs", on keeping America as a hegemon, brain-draining their adversaries is an excellent strategy. Any chinese materials sciences specialist working on hypersonic missiles in America is on one less chinese guy doing the same in China.

Most of Japan stagnation was the result of brutal pressure from the US in the 1980s that led to a series of fiscal and monetary choices that removed a lot of Japan's competitivity.

The median age of Japan went from 37 in 1990 to 50 in 2026. That's an insurmountable headwind. Soon, half the country will be elderly. That's no way to run a vibrant dynamic economy.

It would be nice if not for the detail that nobody is using an LLM to crawl the internet as it would be an absurdly inneficient use of resources for a task that can be done with deterministic code.

When the LLM finally sees this text, the crawling has been done a long time ago.