I think Sean often overplays politics. The most important thing in any project is whether or not it achieves the goal that the overall business has for it. And your job is always to increase the probability of that happening as much as possible. Sometimes it requires politics and sometimes it just requires getting to the task at hand.

Every engineer thinks politics don’t matter until they end up at a company/org where politics are all that matters…

I love that the founders are so prominently featured on this new version.

Fixed now!

Yeah, I can understand where you're coming from. I guess there's balance to the extent that being overly stubborn is also not a great thing. Prioritization at an early stage startup is a tough task.

There is no world outside of a cult or hype bubble where a 6 day turnaround time from announcement to deprecation is acceptable for a standard.

Standards are something that multiple independent groups can build on and should be somewhat stable.

If this was labeled as experimental than maybe, although its crazy to waste time publishing if you are working on something that rapidly iterating. Its not though, because everyone in this AI boom is rushing to be the winner takes all, and is trying their best to signal to the crowd that they are that winner.

In hindsight the title here is weird. It's meant to refer to the existing standard, but doesn't read that way.

This is cool. I like the general idea of swiping on events.

Thanks! I've considered expanding this to comedy events also.

Understood, just toned that bit down.

Ok, I've toned that bit down for you!

>Installing software is a task which should be left to AI.

I think the subtext here is actually revealing a deeper issue. Installing software sucks. It’s error prone and every project does it a slightly different way. What we need is standardization, and I can see why prose could be an attractive middle ground. Easier to understand but less precise may result in marginally better outcomes.

I’m concerned that this approach serves to fix the obvious problems while simultaneously introducing subtler problems.

Tangentially, I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. There are projects like nix that are excellent at fixing a lot of problems in the software packaging and installation space that are great from a security perspective but are famously difficult to use. I’d personally like to see more work leveraging AI to increase the accessibility of these paradigms and not throw the bathwater out with the baby, so to speak.

This is some really fantastic feedback, thank you!

I personally think that prose is significantly easier to read than complex bash and there are at least some benefits to it. They may not outweigh the cons, but it's interesting to at least consider.

That said, this is a proposal and something we plan to iterate on. Generating install.sh scripts instead of markdown is something we're at least thinking about.

Seeing this today made me sad. I expect people to naturally flood back over to Google in droves.