I think this is because anyone who understands the Middle East knows that the fall of the Iranian regime would be more consequential than the fall of the Berlin Wall, not because the Islamic Republic is a global power, but because it has been a central tool for China and Russia and a major engine of terrorism in the Middle East.

Its collapse would rip out a core pillar of their influence and fundamentally change global power dynamics.

Why am I supposed to root against Iran when the United States used peace negotiations as a ruse to assassinate their scientists and then help Israel launch an unprovoked sneak attack?

The "terror in the Middle East" you're referring to, is that just them helping Palestinians to resist the relentless Israeli onslaught? Helping Afghans and Iraqis to expel American occupiers?

Libya and Syria are lawless hellscapes forged by the United States and Israel. Their allied Arab satraps in the region use slave labor to construct luxury towers and playplaces for the uber rich. Where does that figure in your formulation?

So you are OK with expeling occupiers, and helping people resist, unless it happens to be Iranians for some reason? Oh yeah, because America bad?

"America is bad" (in reference to the foreign policy pursued by its psychopathic ruling class) is generally a useful heuristic at this point, yes. But what "occupiers" are you even talking about?

"Palestinians to resist the relentless Israeli onslaught? Helping Afghans and Iraqis to expel American occupiers"

But what occupiers are you referring to in the context of Iran?

I don't think that kind of feature would be useful for HN.

The one thing I like about this place is that it's well moderated and you have shared opposing view points engaging (mostly) respectfully.

My personal and political views couldn't be further from most HN users (I'm both a Conservative _and_ a practicing Christian), yet I appreciate taking part in various discussion. I enjoy reading about point of views that directly challenge mine.

Let's keep HN respectful and accessible.

Iran can end up in a much more dire state. It can end up another Syria / Libya.. or worse another aggressive group like Taliban can take hold of the central government.

I also fear that the looming, imminent war between Israel and Iran is going to make things works. I'm expecting Israel to start a conflict within the next 6 months (or sooner) with the aid of United States.

This is the weakest IRGC have been. Many of their allies have been crippled, they have water issues, economical issues and now protests.

I think that securing Venezuela's oil aids this, should IRAN attempt to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz, it will allow Israel and United States to maintain reserves (to what extend, I don't know).

I think things are going to get difficult for Iranian people, no matter what.

> To be an invasion there needs to be a sustained on the ground presence of the invading force.

What exactly do you think is going to happen to the oil in Venezuela? Are you under the impression that they will simply leave them be and hope for the best?

United States will be placing military assets to secure it, just like they did with IRAQ. The entire point of this was to secure the oil and now they have to to guard it.

Establishing military bases on sovereign nations that you captured by force illegally is an invasion.

Yes but that's all future tense

Users will not care about the quality of your code, or the backed architecture, or your perfectly strongly typed language.

They only care about their problems and treat their computers like an appliance. They don't care if it takes 10 seconds or 20 seconds.

They don't even care if it has ads, popups, and junk. They are used to bloatware and will gladly open their wallets if the tool is helping them get by.

It's an unfortunately reality but there it is, software is about money and solving problems. Unless you are working on a mission critical system that affects people's health or financial data, none of those matter much.

I know the customer's couldn't care about the quality of the code they see. But the idea that they don't care about software being bad/laggy/bloated ever, because it "still solves problems", doesn't stand up to scrutiny as an immutable fact of the universe. Market conditions can change.

I'm banking on a future that if users feel they can (perhaps vibe) code their own solutions, they are far less likely to open their wallets for our bloatware solutions. Why pay exorbitant rents for shitty SaaS if you can make your own thing ad-free, exactly to your own mental spec?

I want the "computers are new, programmers are in short supply, customer is desperate" era we've had in my lifetime so far to come to a close.

To be fair, you're not supposed to be doing the "one shot" thing with LLMs in a mature codebase.

You have to supply it the right context with a well formed prompt, get a plan, then execute and do some cleanup.

LLMs are only as good as the engineers using them, you need to master the tool first before you can be productive with it.

I’m well aware, as I said I am regularly using CC/Codex/OC in a variety of projects, and I certainly didn’t claim that can’t be used productively in a large code base.

But that different challenges become apparent that aren’t addressed by examples like this article which tend to focus on narrow, greenfield applications that can be readily rebuilt in one shot.

I already get plenty of value in small side projects that Claude can create in minutes. And while extremely cool, these examples aren’t the kind of “step change” improvement I’d like to see in the area where agentic tools are currently weakest in my daily usage.

Also it's difficult to achieve body builders top shapes, most of them are naturally gifted and are on some kind of enhancement drugs.

That being said, you will look pretty good for your size if you moderately lift heavier weights and eat your protein + calories.

Lifting weights will adjust your body shape for the better, I'm not sure how you can lift heavy weights without looking different?

You have to go quite heavy and do it very frequently to actually look bulky, or even visibly muscular, when fully dressed.

The effects of moderate weight lifting - defined loosely by me as squatting at most your body weight on a barbell - are barely visible. But you will feel much better on a day-to-day basis and all your health numbers will improve massively.

> I don't understand what you're saying here.

You clearly did, US is acting out of pure self interest and pretending otherwise.

> Second, you're portraying US as a malicious actor operating in a vacuum

Invading a foreign nation, stealing their resources and imprisoning thier leader is a malicious act, no matter how you slice it.

Just because there are other competitors or good "may" come out of it (so you say), doesn't justify it.

The mental gymnastics by Americans to position themselves as "liberators", while bombing other countries and stealing their territory / resources is stunning.

The war with Iran and Israel is coming in 2026 (with the support of USA) and I’m certain this move is in preparation for that.

I don't think Israel is capable of a ground invasion and i don't think USA has the stomach for it.

I suspect they will just continue to try and economically strangle iran and pick off their allies one by one in the hope of an internal revolution (or wait until there is so much economic damage they aren't relavent anymore)