You do a huge disservice to the technology stack that is Ethereum - it's not crass and shallow, it's really quite an elegant system

The only crypto I'm interested in is Monero. What's do you like about Ethereum?

It's programmable, so you're not just running useless hashes. And with Proof of Stake it's way more efficient than Bitcoin.

Programmable doesn't mean anything to me. Is there any useful things made with Ethereum for privacy and self-custody?

A) really weird to see knee jerk crypto tribalism in 2026.

B)Specifically regarding self custody? Quite a few. Argent is one notable example https://argentwallet.io/

No tribalism here. If another cryptocurrency provided low fees, privacy-by-default, and a good track record I would totally use it.

I'm simply curious as I've always seen defi as weird because nothing i've seen seemed useful.

The labs stole my work

The least I can expect is to get the labs work stolen too so I can reaccess intelligence based on my work for cheaper

My todo app generator does not need opus 5.5

Man, AI images are solved

No signal in digital images anymore. If you didn’t see it with your own eyes, it likely never happened

Even in their example "turn the surfboard red", with a bounding box around the surfboard, it turned the whole surfer's wetsuit red too. Things are never quite going to get there.

You know the prompt

Me, casually scrolling on my phone, don’t

I have no way of knowing that you wanted the image to have a red wetsuit. I would just assume its a real image of a surfer in a red wetsuit

> Things are never quite going to get there.

Nothing in life is ever perfect. Doesn't mean imperfect stuff can't have a lot of impact.

Your tools refusing to do your bidding is an absurd idea in the first place

Imagine asking for permission to use your hammer

I mean I don't want autonomous cars to follow directions by humans that sound like "plow into this crowd of people". Even things like microwaves don't let you turn it on without the door closed. I don't see how this is any different.

It is fundamentally diferent because it tries to judge your intent. Thus being both opaque and unpredictable. Car refusing to drive onto person is easily understood. Autonomous car refusing to drive you to corner of Baker's street because that is suspicious destination, with no recourse or explanation, is totally different thing.

This is why you can't leave judgment to technology, and why we have law enforcement and courts

"Plow into this crowd of people" is nominally wrong, but what if its actually "plow into this crowd of people that are hurting and robbing a family with two small children"

Your smart hammer refuses to let you smash into a glass window, but what if you were smashing into the glass window to save a child stuck in a fire?

Majority of white collar work absolutely does not require sota models

White collar work will require SOTA models up until the point where said models can automate white collar work entirely. Then, we might finally see a meaningful commoditization crunch.

I genuinely don't know any work that has been taken over completely by AI without humans in the loop managing things

At this point, I don't even know if its possible

All I see is a flattening of the technical curve. Which is great, but the number of people who want to download an app is still the same. So all you have is 100,000 apps with no users instead of 10,000 apps with no users

You increased the amount of code written by 10x but unless there’s a 10x increase in demand, its worth nothing

I use AI a lot but my final output isn’t drastically different

Writing a lot of code doesn’t mean much when the moat was never “writing a lot of code”

Guess it found the one issue worth flagging