Pretty soon it’ll be the norm. If the next president is a GOP one the grift will continue so long as we are “owning the libs”…

My hope is that it’s not a GOP whitehouse and we see Nuremberg style trials for this whole administration

The new norm is blanket pardons for everybody at the end of a presidency. And a lot more even-more-openly selling pardons in those final weeks, than already went on.

Real fear of malicious prosecution of out-of-power political enemies (we’re seeing a bunch of this attempted now, though grand juries mostly haven’t been cooperating) and real fear of being held accountable for tons of actual criming you did, guarantee that everyone gets pardons now. The more-corrupt admins will also use this as a tool of control (I think this is why public “fealty” is so constantly on display with this second admin, to a degree it was not the first time)

Ignore pardons and prosecute anyway. If "autopen" pardons are invalid, then so are pardons made by a senile president who just blindly signs whatever's placed in front of him.

Maybe SpaceX will buy xAI and Tesla to hide the systemic problems at his companies into the warm embrace of the one legit useful company.

Spacex did buy xai.

Right. I forgot about that. Maybe Tesla is next.

Ali think all of Elon’s companies have an Elon problem: he’s so polarizing he’s limiting the talent pool to choose from. I’m here for it because I don’t care for the man and want him to fail… but yeah that seems clear to me that his polarizing antics are costing his companies.

Why would they do this? Ahh to keep the AI bubble afloat. Got it.

I think it’s small change for them and they realise tinkering keeps the momentum going.

There are also some people that have an aversion to Chinese models so NVIDIA backed is good there.

Do you really think it is still only a bubble? The progress Anthropic did with Claude Code the last few weeks is tremendous.

What progress?

A few months ago, I was also skeptical about all of this. However, what we are currently seeing with Claude Code, or Codex, is astonishing: they're building stuff that works and actually improves upon human-coded apps, optimizations, and research. I work in research, and my colleagues are building apps themselves for data acquisition, which usually takes months. They build them in two days. Several companies say their developers aren't coding anymore; they're asking Claude to do it. It feels like an evolution of programming, like the invention of the automatic sewing machine in 19th-century England.

There are many problems and unresolved issues right now. However, we are getting closer. In my opinion, we do not know what we have unleashed.

I mean, are you using it? Things have really moved in the past few months.

Yeah I'm using it and can't see any progress the past weeks. CC + Opus 4.5 was a huge progress but that was months ago

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Yeah wow. These responses to constructive feedback show an immature team full of hubris. This whole thing is DOA to me. Thank you HN for showing me this.

Let’s hope democracy and the companies we like survive this most petty and broken man serving as POTUS.

They will. Just keep grinding, this will be over eventually.

I don't see how. He himself will eventually go away, but his supporters are a renewable resource. They will seek somebody similar. And somebody will create themselves to be similar, because that's the model that works.

I’m trying to focus on other things and waiting for this to all be over.

I’m not so sure this regime ends without a civil war or something given how determined they are to end our elections and usher in their own version of Putins Russia.

> the companies we like survive

I encourage you to reflect on what this actually means. The "companies we like" have already shown their true colors. All they can do now is pretend it won't happen again.

There's no reality where you wake up to find Tesla or Apple are their idyllic versions of themselves. Even a complete political upheaval cannot create an environment that prevents crony capitalism; Tesla and Apple need federal support to compete. They will bend over backwards embarrassing themselves to secure it, and in a truly capitalist economy they should be punished for failing to compete naturally.

If you believe in fair competition, no company deserves to die more than the ones reliant on anticompetitive federal support. Kissing ass in an administration this corrupt represents the apex of America's meritocracy issue. I'm hoping the FTC breaks them all up, anything less will set the precedent that federal corruption is rewarding and desirable. If any of them survive, we're all doomed.

Very very fair call out. No company is a saint. Even Dario is okay with allowing Claude to be used to kill people just so long as there’s a human in the loop. It’s a very low bar indeed. But idk he’s standing his ground. More of the CEO class I think should. I’d like to see more spine from them. And if they do I will patronize them more.

Too many firms are too big this is true. Breakups would energize a lot of things and even raise salaries for us workers as these new smaller more nimble companies fight for talent.

I guess I just want things to go back to where they were when we were debating about breaking companies up not talking about existentially bad things like kissing the ring of a faux businessman turned reality tv star turned populist who loves Putin. Who knew it would be the Siberian candidate and not the Manchurian one.