many of which don’t appear to solve any actual problems.

That’s putting it lightly. If only the issue was merely not having sufficient use cases, rather than actively making lives worse through environmental strains, supply chain hoarding, and misinformation.

Ken Paxton saying or doing something reasonable and/or beneficial is more like finding a random page torn out from a page-a-day calendar and having it be the right day and date but from a different year

5 quick bribes later:

Ken Paxton and Governor Greg Abbott announce new initiative to forcibly ensure working ACR in all Texans’ TVs and reporting where they’ve directed, “to protect children from harmful content”

Not immediate failure—that’s the trap. Initial metrics look great. You ship faster. You feel productive.

And all they’ll hear is “not failure, metrics great, ship faster, productive” and go against your advice because who cares about three months later, that’s next quarter, line must go up now. I also found this bit funny:

I forced myself to use Claude Code exclusively to build a product. Three months. Not a single line of code written by me… I was proud of what I’d created.

Well you didn’t create it, you said so yourself, not sure why you’d be proud, it’s almost like the conclusion should’ve been blindingly obvious right there.