Full fledged applications, with full functionality, minimal bugs, localized entirely within your computer?!

I think a lot of us like solving novel problems. But the menial drudgery of most modern software, where you're writing code in an app that was written in a week 8 years ago and then had mountains of "get it done quickly and we can improve it later" over the years, wears on everyone. Much as the advent of decent cordless tools revolutionized "workman" trades, ai helps programmers

A friend was recently redoing his kitchen. They hired a carpenter for cabinetry, and his wife asked him if he would be willing to make it with only hand tools.

Carpenter told her he'd be happy to, it would take 8 weeks longer, cost more, and probably wouldn't look any better than the regular way

Pro gun is explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, about 8 amendments before the tenth, so that argument isn't the best tack

Certainly surprising

One of my favorite interview questions is asking a candidate to, piece meal, build a calendar. They start with Julian, and then write converters to and from other calendars. Any calendar can be converted to any other, by going through Julian

I got the idea from the book "calendrical calculations"