Aren't worth what? The tax? Or the vice being legal in the first place?

aren't worth the tax: no matter how high you set the tax, it won't offset the amount you have to spend on rehabilitating the effects of the vice

legality itself never stopped a vice from being indulged :) it's the cost / benefit that brings back repeat customers and encourages addictive behaviors

What, are you expecting them to just work for good vibes?

Objectively untrue, unfortunately.

"Just use AI" is definitely not the solve for the problems Github faces.

Shhh! Do you hear that? It's the collective scream of middle managers screaming in terror.

Jokes aside, yes, quite correct. Even frontier models like Fable have very obvious limits.

I was on team dynamic for a long time and have moved to team static.

For any long-lived code base, dynamic piles up invisible problems over time.

It's great for short-lived throwaway stuff, but as soon as you know you'll be maintaining a large code base for a long time, the "easier" part of dynamic actually becomes harder than just spelling stuff out.

It's obviously a trade-off and not everyone agrees, but that's my personal experience having run large eng teams for both types.

This is exactly my experience as well.

If it were up to me, I'd start out by using the AI to port a Python web app to a compiled language like Go. Then we could maintain that going forward instead.

In reality, a Python code base is maintained by Python programmers, most of whom would vote against such a change.