Well written. I do not disagree with anything here, also its so complex that no one understands it fully.
Which is how it should be. I often use a jungle as an example: I have started from next to nothing several times, including in the open source software space, so I know how to get through that "jungle", even if its one that I have never gone through before.
I do see some changes now, though, so I have some things I want to push a little:
The stacks are getting super obscure. Yeah they work very well, but who knows all the code in the whole stack they build on any longer? For myself I keep some minimal stacks running, and will try to simplify that further, so that I know that I can at least do some things on a stack that I know very well.
AI will now start to use all these stacks for real. Of course the code in the stacks can easily be handled by AI, so very soon these "building blocks" will be combined, recombined, fused and split up by AI. It might get very scary and wild...
The fakery will skyrocket even further, due to these things. So being real will be key, especially when it happens in organic networks like here on Hive. Personally I'm intentionally doing things in a rough, unruly, gritty and wild way, not only do I enjoy that, but I know that I'll then attract the right, real people :-)
We need to fight hard to own AI, to the degree that it is possible. Who or what can do this? Only the real people, cultures and traditions. In short: the old has to inform the new.
For that last part I've got on my list to get one of those chips that seemingly can be used to index photos locally. Its not on top of my priority right now, but I would really enjoy using it that way while doing my rough, happy and immersive traveling in cheap, unruly areas :-)
Will I get into a position where I can become really useful in this fight? Well, I need to take care of myself and survive to fight the next day, every day. But also I'm open to that, and working towards it long term.
I've mentioned meeting a local entrepreneur in Nepal who is doing these things the right way, I'll probably write about that, and also this is exactly the type of intersection of almost any really important issue that I'm aiming to focus on for years to come :-)
Be wild, unruly and fully human out there!