To my fellow old-school devs: Not using AI = not using gunpowder. Noble samurai coders with decades of skill cannot defeat 1 peasant conscript junior\agent with a gatling gun. Go out with honor or adapt and become the best marksman.
Bradbury predicted this - drones and all. We do not deserve our freedom if we let this happen here. Mask birdshot every time they try it. Be ungovernable.
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every god-fearing generation of men maintain and uphold The Wire Box, a strategic reserve of technical entropy from which the anonymous will rise up and become the prophesied Chosen Wire in Our Time of Need.
Optical storage will be remembered as the worst side quest on our technology tree. Perma-etching data into an unprotected medium susceptible to scratches and oxidization? MiniDisc was probably the least insane version.