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Thing is, as we all know, prototypes rarely make it to the trash bin if managers and product owners have a stake in the project. Which becomes an even bigger problem now that minimal amounts of humans are involved in producing said prototypes.

I had a meeting with a customer who proudly proclaimed they do "full-on agentic coding" at their startup, and one of their developers mentioned their entire codebase has been rewritten three times in the past week before the meeting took place. I do not have high hopes for their project ever being refactored by humans involved in anything else than light UAT before customer demo time.

This happened to me, just a few weeks ago. I am glad I had btrfs snapshots...

They have never reported a data breach.

Fixed that for you. Same goes for most companies though - the abscense of a publicly known data breach does not mean it hasn't happened, with or without said company's knowledge.

Residential proxies are controversial, as the majority of them are made available via adware inserted into mobile apps, running without the device owner's knowledge about it:

Residential proxy networks grow through several mechanisms. The most widespread is SDK-based provisioning: proxy companies pay mobile developers to embed their SDK into free or low-cost applications, which ships with a lengthy end-user licence agreement that, buried in legal language, consents to routing third-party traffic through the user's device. Most users click through without reading it (Trend Micro, 2025; Google, 2026; FBI, 2026).

https://www.first.org/blog/20260424-Infrastructure-Nobody-Owns

Cold talk and starting a conversation with someone you never met is not a natural skill for everyone; myself included - I am extrovert when being around people I know or people someone who is with me knows, but shut as a clam when with strangers.

Doing something together that you can talk about to get to know each other's preferences and what you picked up from the experience is a great way to break the ice.

I particularily enjoy going to a museum, theatre or music concert on a date, and try to suggest something I haven't seen or heard before.

Thanks for taking your time to answer in a constructive way. I have to admit I wasn't expecting that (not because of you, but from the general attitude I've seen here on Lemmy lately).

Another example would be music genres, and sub-genres within those.

No, they are most likely wondering what the intended checks and balances are. Not how they are used in practice (which we already know). I am also curious.

And in contrast to the avalanche of slop we are currently enduring, the pre-commercialization era of Internet was wild, in a fun way. Yes, we had slop back then too, but it was naïve, gorgeous, hand-crafted slop.

It's cranes all the way up

They come in a wide variety of sizes, from very small to (as you put it) comically/frighteningly large, so as to cater to most people depending on their preference.

Granted, the theme is usually "creature" (fantasy or real) rather than "human", but that doesn't mean they only have one size for each creature imagined!