I found the article interesting yet my thinking is at the opposite spectrum. I also spent a lot of time using LLM, and I am moving away from "no framework" or "library pretending to be a framework".

Not that I was a fan of it, but for work purpose I was using React / Next.js etc.

Now, I am using Laravel. lots of magic, pretty much always one recommended way to do things, excellent code generation using CLI. When you combine it with AI it's following the framework's guideline. The AI does not have to think about whether it should locate business logic with UI, use a hook or not, extract a helper, etc.

It knows how to create route, controller, validator, view, model, migration, whatever.

Sure then I don’t comply, so what?

If the UK wants to go full totalitarian it’s alright, they can even consider me a criminal or ban me from entering the country.

I usually avoid traveling to countries doing non sense or that would arrest me for ideological reasons.

The UK would be no different.

But as far as I know, where I live, I am not under UK’s jurisdiction.

If I was a heavy drinker and smoker I would likely have health problems and shaking hands. I don’t think I need the New York Times to inform me about it or that 88 years old are dying from heart attacks everyday.

But if people starts to behead teachers (as it’s happening in my country : France) for religious reasons, I want to know.

Yea, even if it represents a few deaths here and there.

Because I am willing to consider the possibility that it’s telling of a shift in my society that will have consequences down the road.

Significance of events are not necessarily correlated to how many people die from it.

Also different countries set up different priorities. France for example is talking quite a lot about « feminicide » (how many women are killed because they are women). In France, it was 137 in 2024. Is it a lot? Probably not for a population of 70 millions. Can we significantly decrease the number? Probably not.

But people and media are still talking about it. And even if this specific number do not improve, it does spark debate about related topic, which is sometimes a good thing.

Yes many countries will decide to extradite for actions which are legal in said country.

I am French, and we recently convinced Scotland to extradite a French man who was denying the existence of the Holocaust and gaz chamber, which is something you could do in Scotland if you do it without violence.

So indeed it’s possible.

But I don’t think it’s the same as extraditing for a meme.

That's surprising, I hadn't heard about that. I had assumed that this was a blanket rule that generally applied to these treaties. I wonder how the UK justified it...

Also, one other differentiator here is that the man, as you described him, was a French citizen. The post up above implies extraditing foreigners from their countries of residence to the US, which is on a whole other level of insanity. Imagine what would've happened if France tried to extradite a Scottish man from within the UK for online posts.

I found some interesting bits in this article but overall I think it’s being overly cynical.

In the past ten years, I worked with one guy from Nigeria and a bunch of people from Iran. Bitcoin (or rather cryptocurrencies in general) have been more than just mere gimmicks.

Sending money from one side of the world to another, for such a low fees, even when the central bank of Nigeria is blocking USD transfers, even when bank transfers to Iran are being blocked, has been very useful in itself.

As for AI, yes if you use it as a God, you will be disappointed. Yes it can’t do everything. Yes it will hallucinate.

But it’s been a great learning environment for me, I keep asking questions to get an overview of things.

I used to learn concepts such as « clean architecture » because AI is never tired, it can provide endless variations to the same problems, until you better understand the underlying principles and the recurring patterns.

When I work on a project, 20-30% is creative, cutting edge, never seen before. 70% is CRUD, necessary boilerplate.

I know what I am supposed to be doing, I can verify the result, double check the validity of it.

Why would I waste hours typing letters?

Do I rely on AI for everything? No I don’t.

But pretending it’s completely useless, is nonsensical.

Yes it’s just statistically inferring the next token, but it’s actually a very simple, powerful concept.

I am willing to take pretty much any legal risks, I don’t want to give up on my mother, regardless of how it can backfire.

I flee out of Thailand several months ago, because I was receiving some death threats, so I should be safe on that matter.

this is also a scammer.

Yeah, I did not click on any links and knew the comment was written with AI

I used AI to write press releases in every languages I know there are victims.

I am trying to look for someone who can help me shoot / edit short videos, and I will try to use Heygen to translate them.

Posting on TikTok might be useful, but usually the content can only be seen from the country you are posting.

Do you know of any tools where you can feed a bunch of content / documents / pictures / etc and it generates many pages ranking on their names / brand / company / etc?

Yes I was also surprised, at least one of those comments looked legit to me, not written with AI or a anything.

I will check the settings

It's something I am considering, not just talking about whether a country is safe or not, but listening to whistleblowers and listing scammers by name / pictures / estimated amount / connections / and publishing personal information (phone / address / school for the children, etc).

Only after collecting enough hard evidences, of course.

If they plan to scam hundreds of people, they might as well take the associated risks of scamming the wrong people who have nothing else to lose.

Ideally yes, I agree, but it's actually not so easy to get in touch with other victims without any help from the press.