> learned Rust in 2017

Seems more like a hobby activity than a decision that would lead to any practically meaningful outcome. Since as you said, you were already a billionaire in 2017 any money you could make by writing software yourself seems insignificant

That someone with inside information will e.g. make 500% while those late to the party e.g. only get 10%? (of course your example is not very realistic to begin with)

More friction -> less users -> lower revenue -> more companies lobbying against these policies. Seems like a good thing.

> we are up to thousands of little emperors all telling the world how we have to think, how we have to compute

Imho that’s one of the best outcomes i.e. companies which will try to comply with all of the rules will go out of business or move to a less dystopian jurisdiction. Then there will be a lot economic pressure to build networking and payment systems which allow working around all this crap.

If on the order hand it’s actually streamlined and works without any friction nobody will lose their jobs/tax revenue and governments will come up with even more and even more dystopian shit.

Well it’s obviously technically feasible (which seems like the least relevant part) if you want to have zero privacy because every single general purpose computer has unremovable spyware builtin..

Which just seems like a slippery slope. Since there is no friction and users are not annoyed anymore governments will just continue requiring more and more spyware to be added to all software/devices.

IMHO requiring every to submit notarized paper forms to access Facebook/whtvr would be the best solution

> chance of hitting the Supreme Court?

Why would that matter? The constitution is just a worthless scrap of paper these days

> Lots of obvious waste there

Seems like a great thing then. People get annoyed, businesses that comply lose customers and money etc.

All that friction means these policies become inherently less popular regardless of anything else. While this crap work effortlessly out of the box is just outright dystopian

People are already annoyed, which is why society is demanding the stuff already age restricted for decades or even centuries actually be restricted on the Internet. The battle has never and will never be about allowing kids free access to porn. The battle is about restricting it in a way that doesn't endanger them or their privacy. Failing to do that is what ends in a dystopia, where tech and governments use society's demands as an excuse to move us further into a surveillance state. Like the proposed laws being discussed, centralizing data in an easily subpoenable location.

You still have a choice whether or not to use those websites. Not sure if having spying malware built in into every OS is preferable to that..

Presumably if you can afford to pay for all those tokens the computational cost should be mostly insignificant?

Spending too much time optimizing for the 1% of extra overhead seems suboptimal..

Even if I was building one single agent for a one off hobby project I would still use Elixir. It’s elegantly suited to the job. With any long running failure prone process you’re constantly writing try/catches, health checks, network timeouts, retries, and a whole lot of other orchestration stuff just to keep a flaky real world agent running. With Erlang it’s all just a built in state machine. The process knows what state it is in, crashes, recovers gracefully in exactly the right state.