One criticism that deserves attention: questions about AI were only answered by approximately one-third of respondents, while the other questions obtained response rates of 60% to 70%, suggesting a potential self-selection bias around the 84% adoption and 46% reported distrust.

Still, with nearly 49,000 developers surveyed from 177 countries and over 314 technologies represented, the picture the report paints of high AI adoption, growing skepticism about its accuracy, and a real trust gap matches up very well with what we see in the global development community.

This is gloriously absurd and honestly, kind of brilliant. A cross-platform, AI-powered engine to automate buzzword soup? We’ve truly reached peak startup parody. Love the mix of satire and solid data sourcing (Crunchbase, Angel List, Product Hunt the holy trinity of VC jargon). The fact that it’s been featured in the WSJ and Troy Hunt’s blog is next-level ironic validation. Long live the Bullshit Generator may your permutations be ever increasing.

That makes sense, and yeah I’m with you on the infrastructure side being the real bottleneck. Even if the models could technically run on-device, without the right OS-level support and clean integrations, it’s just clunky. I guess my hesitation is more about how companies might market it as private while still quietly shipping data off-device. But once it’s truly local and usable, I’m all in.

This hit hard in the best way. It’s wild how the story blends old trauma with future tech so naturally like, a grandmother’s memories of Soviet boots and a granddaughter mining blocks to defend sovereignty. The idea of decentralization becoming not just economic resistance but national defense? That’s chilling, and somehow totally believable.

What stuck with me most wasn’t even the hardware or the strategy it was the people. Ordinary citizens turning stoves, car batteries, even churches into parts of a living, breathing defense grid. No guns, no flags, just math and willpower. Honestly, it made me wonder if we’ve been underestimating what Bitcoin and proof-of-work could mean this whole time.

Yeah, I’ve noticed that too seems like Americans are way more vocal about fiat criticism, even while benefiting most from it. Could be that having more financial privilege gives them the space to question the system more openly.

If it was actually private and genuinely useful like that, I’d 100% use it. The idea of having a second brain that actually remembers things I forget sounds amazing. But I’d definitely need to feel confident it wasn’t leaking my life to some server somewhere.

This is something I’ve been thinking about more lately tooback when my stack was smaller, I didn’t really worry, but as it grows, the all eggs in one wallet approach starts to feel sketchier. Splitting it up makes sense, even just to reduce the odds of one dumb mistake wiping you out.