have you tired adding to your agents file: "Prefer solutions that reduce lines of code over adding lines of code"?

This should show in up in higher margins for the company.

Is your company a software firm or considered something outside of pure software?

Software firm, small, privately held.

The way I'm using it is I have AI generate the tool (python script) and then it will use it for the task and for future tasks. As time goes on, the AI has more tools to call on which makes it (and me) more productive (higher quality work in less time)

Always read from experienced developers praising lisps, but why is it so rare in production applications?

Looking for a nice, solid, well-documented library to do something is difficult for most stuff. There are some real gems out there, but usually you end up having to roll your own thing. And Lisp generally encourages rolling your own thing.

People smart enough to read and write it are rare.

Is it about intelligence or just not being used to/having time for learning a different paradigm?

I personally have used LISP a lot. It was a little rough at first, but I got it. Despite having used a lot of languages, it felt like learning programming again.

I don't think there's something special about me that allowed me to grok it. And if that were the case, that's a horrible quality in a language. They're not supposed to be difficult to use.

I think it allows very clever stuff, which I don't think is done routinely, but that's what gets talked about. I try to write clean functional style code in other languages which in my book means separation of things that have side effects and things that don't. I don't think I'll have difficulty writing standard stuff in Lisp with that approach.

Just because it allows intricate wizardry doesn't mean it is inherently hard to get/use. I think the bigger issue would be ecosystem and shortage of talent pool.

I have hardly any issues reading and writing CL and I am so stupid even bags of bricks take pity on me. Intelligence is not a factor here.

The only software I use that I know runs a lisp is Hacker News.

When I was in high school I learned AutoCAD and I remember that back then it was scripted in LISP. I'm not sure if that is still true.

JavaScript and Python have adopted almost every feature that differentiated Lisp from other languages. So in comparison Lisp is just more academic, esoteric, and advanced.

This is only true if you define "Lisp" as the common subset. If you look specifically at Common Lisp, neither Python nor JS come close in terms of raw power.

In my case, my boss won't let me.

Author doesn't see RH profiting by selling customer information they acquire.

I don't think you can simply "sell" customer information in the financial industry. It's a heavily regulated industry. RH can use information from the card to cross-sell its loans, if customers allow marketing communication. But I don't think they can just profit from allowing a 3rd-party access to that data. I never heard of a card issuer monetize their customer data that way. If you have an example, please do share.

I had a business partner/family member steal money from me in our business. It very much hurt and was a painful experience hoping for vengence. Perhaps SBF being distant from you is what makes you indifferent.

This is the pain of losing trust and getting taken advantage of by someone that is close to you.

Yes that's fair criticism regarding my feelings, but GP feels the same and they had stolen $10K. So the distance from it can't be all there is to it.

I'm also pretty distant from a mugging that might happen today, but I find myself getting angry about it, so that also seems to contradict the theory that it's about distance (though to be clear, I largely agree with you and I suspect distance is going to be a factor for most or maybe the vast majority of people).

How about stopping governments and banks from censoring, stopping and freezing money of their citizens/customers? Seems like one good use case.

I guess you could say you don't need Amazon, the problem of getting goods is solved by physical stores. Yet, millions of people find value in ordering through Amazon instead.

There will be use cases where people simply prefer blockchain over the legacy alternatives because it's cheaper, faster or better and there will be "whole new world" use cases.

This is just more "handwaving with a bad analogy", which again only goes to show how hard it is for people to show any real utility for smart contracts.

It is very easy for me to explain and understand the benefit of ordering over Amazon vs. going to a physical store. When Amazon first showed up, I didn't think "Gosh, what is this really for?" or "Can somebody explain to me, simply, what Amazon is for?" No, I went to amazon.com, browsed a giant selection of books, ordered one and it showed up at my house a couple days later. "Wow, that's awesome" I thought.

If you say "There will be use cases where people simply prefer blockchain over the legacy alternatives because it's cheaper, faster or better and there will be "whole new world" use cases." then why is it so difficult for anyone to say what those use cases actually are?? You say it will be "cheaper, better, faster", but are able to offer no concrete examples or rationale as to why.

Why isn't AMD and Intel working on an alternative?

At what dosages?