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The Lament#

Today, I read this mildly depressing note from ⁠Karnage.

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Yeah, but we knew that.#

That was always the vision of #GitCitadel. We said that we are a development team that uses Nostr, not merely a Nostr development team.

We use Nostr where appropriate and whatever else where that would be more appropriate. It is a useful part of our tech stack, on par with REST, RSS, TCP/IP, Bluetooth, Kubernetes, etc.

We promised that we would be offering:

• stable, well-maintained apps
• on our own infrastructure,
• that all of the code would be FOSS,
• and that we would focus on building complex, self-hostable websites
• which would aim to offer extremely low-cost, censorship-resistent publishing forums for academics, intellectuals, homescholers, and developers.
• That we would provide full-time, globally-available tech support.
• And that we would do it, even if no one initially pays us to, because we are personally invested in the project's success because we want to use it, ourselves.

All of which is more valuable (and much more difficult) than a succession of vibe-coded cellphone widgets built by drive-by hackers.

The Blob#

He's also missing the major point that Nostr came of age in parallel with AI-supported coding, and that's a massive advantage that allows us to keep the protocol very lightweight and nimble.

Nostr is ideal for this new, AI age of development. It assumes you don't need to define everything precisely, but a very few things exactly. Nostr goes through a constant organic evolution, as the AI coding takes the Nostr Core and pushes out the edges in every direction. That is why Nostr will eventually eat all other protocols: it can cherry-pick from them, with the help of artifical intelligence.

Software teams who embrace AI will move forward faster, as we have done recently, by updating our #Alexandria components to be more AI-friendly and plug-n-play.

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It's so over. Good.#

The years of hacking out Pets.com, throwing it to some investors, and then waiting for the grant or the IPO check.... Yes, it's finally over. We all have to actually make an effort, now.

That's long been the case, for software engineers outside of financial hotspots like Silicon Valley. We earn relatively modest salaries performing the digital equivalent of master plumbing or carpentry.

The only software worth using, now, is throwaway code and software craftsman code, both of which are written using AI. The middle has fallen out of the market.

Get up. Move faster.

This was published on Alexandria and can be viewed on DecentNewsroom and Habla.