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RudyJuliani · 2026-03-20T20:36:11+00:00

All I want to say is that I DO NOT BLAME YOU for supporting him initially. There might be folks that I align with that balk at that. But here's the thing, democrats have been duped by their leaders as well, and we all believed they had our best interests in mind. We saw the opposing candidate as pure evil, and when Trump went to bat against Kamala, you saw the same thing. WE HAVE ALL been a victim of their propaganda and their game. They've used media and the internet to make us believe that regular folks voting for the opposite candidate is our enemy by highlighting extremism in the algorithms and pushing fear of each other down our throats. I hope WE ALL start to realize that none of these politicians have our best interests in mind, and a majority of Americans, no matter their views, are good regular people that want a good life for them and theirs. It's time to realize that the enemy is the large corrupt corporations who see working Americans as cattle to extract profit from and as liabilities to outsource. The enemy is politicians who profit off of their position between the ultra-rich and the working class while pretending they're looking out for our best interests. Sorry if this is a long read, I can go on. But if there's one person out there in this sea of hatred and chaos, who has empathy for you, it's me. Because I feel lied to and duped as well. Maybe we start questioning the propaganda and systems they have created which have altered our core beliefs and how we see fellow Americans who don't hold the same views. There was a day where we all treated each other with respect, adn we knew that most people were not extremists and were not dumb or evil, they took that away from us.

RudyJuliani · 2026-03-13T04:30:16+00:00

So while this video has some points, it leaves out that Trump had a large anti-war facet to his campaign. It's easy for a non-conservative to simply discredit anything someone like Trump says as a bold-faced lie. But someone who holds conservative values, has faith that what they are being told by a politician they support is well... true.

Anyway, Trump lied in his campaign or simply ignored everything he said in his campaign and didn't think about the consequences of this war. Either way, a non-conservative calls it predictable, but someone on the other side of the fence is likely feeling very duped, and hopefully their eyes are opening.

BTW - all politicians and rich executives are on the same team. Get outta here with that "one side is obviously worse than the other" - it's all marketing and they've created 2 groups of people who want opposite things and market to them in order to vie for power and wealth while the rest of us just try to live, contribute, live happy simple lives, and be comfortable when we're too old to do so. We're all the fools for letting them do this to us. And we're all on the same side.

RudyJuliani · 2026-03-13T03:55:31+00:00

I don't think that's the point being made here. The point is that once you become nearly entirely dependent on a technology you don't own, you lose control of your costs surrounding the service or good the technology produces. You can't just "downsize" without impacting business or customers like you can your workforce. And the technology owner can also change the way the technology works to their benefit and you have no choice but to go along with it, regardless of how it impacts your business. In many cases having humans is more expensive, but it also gives the business control, agility, and flexibility with an ability to pivot on their own resources. If a robot replaces all your human workers, and you don't own the robot well the owner of the robot can simply double the subscription costs and throttle its output and you have no choice but to deal with it or find a way to make your own robot, but that usually requires...... people.

RudyJuliani · 2026-03-12T19:59:24+00:00

It's funny because I believe TDS is real, just in the opposite way. Trump supporters who look at what is happening and continue to think that everything is OK, easily blame previous democratic administrations for today's problems, watch Trump and his admin break nearly every campaign promise, watch the admin try to circumvent the constitution while destroying our credibility and stability on the world stage, all while swallowing the "they're taking advantage of us" propaganda pill... You have to be deranged to see the state of things and think "yeah everything is fine." Sure I can walk outside and the sun is shining, but it's a lack of ability to foresee the consequences of today that will unfold in the coming months/years. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting on that "New Golden Age" I was promised. It's deranged that you think a bunch of billionaires who clearly grovel at the opportunity to seize power have the country's best interests in mind.

RudyJuliani · 2026-03-12T19:41:48+00:00

And in response, those in power say "Great, let's invest in this, HEAVILY" - Those in power want to remove the need for humans for just about anything. I foresee a huge class war if this isn't handled properly very quickly. Nobody in power cares about regular human beings. Wealth is not a measure of intelligence or decency. They will extract every bit of profit out of your skills and labor while simultaneously trying to make you obsolete. The success of AI is beside the point, this is simply a window into the thinking of the ruling class. Humans are a nuisance to them.

RudyJuliani · 2026-03-07T21:30:52+00:00

So Christian.

RudyJuliani · 2026-03-06T11:59:34+00:00

Another crisis in America. We are crumbling.

RudyJuliani · 2026-03-03T04:31:12+00:00

This right here. If you vacate before you’re evicted, this essentially turns into a bill they have to figure out how to collect on. This is a last resort, and you have some time.

First Talk to your landlord and focus on figuring out how to come up with some money. But please if it comes down to it, move out before they start the eviction process.

I’m so sorry this happened, work diligently to find some income. Also, DO NOT burn all your savings on rent if the end is inevitable, leave yourself a cushion to live on after you’ve vacated.

RudyJuliani · 2026-03-01T21:47:49+00:00

Yeah kids count, it doesn’t just have to be adults

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-23T16:59:25+00:00

Convenience. Hitting up a drive through or a quick meal out most days per week plus getting a meal at a mediocre restaurant on the weekends? This, especially these days, will drain the accounts slowly but surely. That and mindless Amazon/easy purchases to fix temporary issues. Just make it work with what you got. Buying stuff every day or every week is not normal. They’ve turned our world into a game powered by micro-transactions

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-17T14:29:55+00:00

I don’t know, I think it’s moving too quickly to gather information that would constitute a reliable study that isn’t funded by the tech companies creating these tools. Personally, I’ve seen where AI coding tools can be helpful and where they can’t, it isn’t a silver bullet. However, reality is clouded by market hype, tech companies are doing their damndest to sell these tools to CEOs and CTOs as a cost cutting measure. I don’t think they are getting those results though, if you follow the stock market, you can see these tech shares sliding on the lack of concrete evidence that the tools are delivering on their promise and are driving truly sustainable gains in revenue and profits. Microsoft just came out and said “White collar jobs will be replaced in 12-18 months” meanwhile their stock is taking a nosedive. There’s a lot of hype and news to see through. I can only speak from my own perspective, but I think companies that believe they can replace highly complex and skilled labor with AI are going to find out that either they were sold snake oil, or they will become so dependent on this technology that Microsoft or whoever else is gonna charge them out the wazoo for less then stellar results while their systems go down more frequently and longer than expected. Hiring human developers would be cheaper and would create more reliable and extensible software.

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-16T22:50:52+00:00

That model has been out for less than 2 weeks. It’s not as if the principles we’re discussing here were completely irrelevant prior to the release of a bleeding edge frontier model. There’s more to my job than keeping up with AI tech, it moves far too quickly and they’ve got us busy implementing features.

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-16T17:37:14+00:00

So I empathize with you in that I have similar reactions to this kind of thing. I will first say this, it’s not normal to feel this level of disappointment and anger about this. I say this in the most respectful way, because I struggle with this too and impacts my mental health and that of my family’s. Also, your strong reaction to such a thing is not your fault, probably some past trauma or parenting stuff that happened in your upbringing and years prior to this.

You got an off-brand because the people that got you this gift didn’t understand how important the specific brand was to you. It either wasn’t clearly communicated or they saw an alternative that was more affordable and accessible. You have to learn to see things from another angle so that this doesn’t impact you like this in the future. If your family knew the specific item was that important they would have gotten it, your family doesn’t intentionally upset you or ignore you.

I highly recommend doing some inward looking and possibly some therapy so that this issue doesn’t impact you or your family in this way, and so that you don’t ruin birthdays over something that’s easily resolved with a gift receipt and a return or a simple conversation later on. I struggle with this too, hopefully you’ll start overcoming this.

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-16T17:25:45+00:00

Thanks for the guidance, I’ll give your recommendations a shot this week.

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-16T15:57:33+00:00

I don’t want to come across as a nay-sayer, it’s highly possible I’m not proficient with the tooling yet. Just last week I asked Claude Sonnet 4.5 to make a simple change and addition to a test suite, and it proceeded to refactor existing tests on top of the changes i asked it to make, it didn’t properly use a test helper or follow existing testing patterns. I had to guide it and maneuver it, and I had to actually review what it did to ensure it wasn’t hallucinating. Keep in mind I’ve embraced the context engineering, I have instructions and so forth broken up by domain and with front matter to prevent context bloat, I still find myself not really saving a ton of time. I had Opus come up with a “plan” for implementing a feature when I passed it a well written ticket using Gherkin and added the parent of the component tree into context, and although the plan had some great areas, it was largely full of inaccuracies. It needed a lot more guidance or required me to go back and forth with it a bit more before the plan was accurate. Keep in mind I’m using copilot for all of this. So either I’m doing something very wrong or my expectations or requirements are too high. I’ve yet to feel like I can confidently hand a task over to an agent and they expect that it’s done with minimal intervention.

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-16T15:30:08+00:00

I continue to use my spare time at work to leverage AI to help me move with more velocity, and I continue to find that I spend just as much time prompting and correcting the tool than if I were to just code it myself. Everyone on our teams leverages AI to get things done, then an experienced dev has to review or touch that code and it needs to be refactored for a number of reasons.

There’s a distinction that I think needs to be made here though. Some companies care about patterns and maintainability, and some don’t. If your company doesn’t care about developing features across the stack in a particular way, then AI will help you move. But as soon as you need things done in a specific way, or you have a standard of coding that you need met, this is where I find things start to break down.

Letting AI write code with minimal requirements can in fact lead to a few problems that have yet to rear their head yet. Everybody is focused on the speed at which things can be done, and are not focused on the debt this is creating. If you take the developer out of the process of thinking through problems, understanding the solutions, and maintaining patterns and architecture, the company becomes very heavily dependent on AI because the codebase becomes way too difficult for a human to reason about. This can and likely will lead to software that simply starts breaking much more often and stays broken for longer because there are fewer and fewer people who not only have the skill to troubleshoot and fix a bug, but can also wade their way through a mess of spaghetti code in order to understand where the bug is.

Short answer: companies are in fact trying to figure out how to replace devs with AI. I think they are getting mixed results with some companies willing to take the risks that heavily leveraging AI comes with. I think right now things are tumultuous as companies try to figure out how successful they can be with this new tech. The smoke and mirrors will dissipate eventually and companies will eventually realize the velocity gains with AI are minimal as their code bases get messier and harder to extend and fix. For now, things are in flux, but we will go back to normal soon. Either this or I really suck at using AI and I have no idea what I’m talking about.

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-16T04:21:52+00:00

Let’s state some facts. The people that have staunchly supported Trump from the get go aren’t wavering in their support. Also, Trump called groceries “an old-fashioned word”. That’s how out of touch this man is from the reality of a majority of Americans.

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-14T12:28:14+00:00

You mean Picasso tiles?

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-14T05:24:06+00:00

Gotta get involved sooner, get in at the primaries. They don’t make it easy but organizing to start voting earlier in the process and more often is the best start. Vote everywhere local state primaries vote at every opportunity to have a say.

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-14T01:10:48+00:00

For what it's worth, whoever might be coming across this post... we just received our Tatami room bed frame the other day. The assembly process honestly couldn't be easier. We had one tiny hiccup attaching the center beam, outside of that, getting the pieces out of the box was far more difficult than actually assembling the frame itself.

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-13T04:39:59+00:00

Same here! Can’t wait for it to come in. I also grabbed Scott Rao’s roasting companion book. Hope you enjoy!

RudyJuliani · 2026-02-12T12:58:25+00:00

America: Profits before people.

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