Quick, we need a new Cryptonomicon, in space!

My experience, as someone who is also new and trying to figure things out, is that langchain works great as long as everything you want to do has an adapter. Try to step off the path, and things get really complex really fast. After hitting that several times, I've found it's easier to just do things directly instead of trying to figure out the langchain way of doing things.

I've found dspy to work closer to how I think, which has made working with pipelines so much easier for me.

I disagree that government doing nothing is better than keeping money flowing. Or, I disagree that money should be removed from the populace via taxation, if that funding doesn't have any path back to the populace. Government doing nothing is a net negative to the entire country, and is worse (imo) than doing "nonproductive" spending. A nonproductive spend is still spend that keeps people employed, families fed, researchers researching, etc.

I don't believe that you guys all believe the military industrial complex should start sitting on cash and collecting interest, even though that's what you're saying. The obvious solution is "they don't need that much money", but that's unrelated to how they spend the money they do have.

We're also talking about a governmental body. Generating the highest returns possible is a non-goal, and disregarding potentially useful things simply because they aren't the best possible use of funds is an easy way to just never do anything.

Is all of that truely "waste", if it is being paid toward onshore companies? The money doesn't disappear, it gets redistributed to American companies.