A couple of possibilities spring to mind. Likelier that Karen lied, but maybe the 512 page fax changed the system.

The post dated March 25 2026 says "This week, I received The Letter."

More likely he had a fun idea and ran with it to illustrate other problems he's had.

I can say from personal experience that the people on the phone for US Social Security are enforcing inhumane policies. A relative with a speech impediment and in serious pain who was unable to travel to the office for an interview had to be ready for a phone call. If the phone wasn't answered after four rings, have to reschedule a phone call. When the phone call arrived, they had to answer questions personally without assistance or "coaching". The caller couldn't understand the relative due to the speech impediment, and the relative was in distress and having difficulty understanding the questions. But we weren't supposed to help.

You mean, Karen lied?

No, that is not what I meant. If anything, the blogpost author might have, but that's not what I mean either.

It is entirely possible for both parties to have simply missed thinking of this. Or for me to be missing or misunderstanding something.

I'm old. Back in the olden days - the 1900s - 2-ton cars were not lightweight, the so-called heavy Chevys.

Writing is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously misinform them (e.g. illegitimate legal advice or hallucinated mushroom identification ebooks), to drive people to mental health breakdowns via "internet psychosis" and much more. The harm is real and material, and right now is causing unemployment, physical harm, imprisonment, and in some cases death...

Small? GPLv3 is ~5644 words, and not particularly long for a license.

Sturgeon's Law predates LLMs by decades: 90% of everything is crap.

Sturgeon's law is generous to the output of LLMs.

Fair use?

No, it isn't, wealth is good. More readily creating and delivering value is good.

Wealth, at a reasonable level of distribution.

Total wealth is a meaningless metric.

What is a definition of "reasonable"?

Usually it's "anyone with more money than me has too much".

Billionaires and pop stars taking pleasure trips to orbit while millions of humans elsewhere are starving is probably not it

Planning is very useful even though things never go according to plan, honest.

Also who writes the plan is completely disconnected from reality, so the plan is completely useless.

The context of this conversation is the actions of a senior developer. If the senior developer allows someone else to write the plan in isolation (thus allowing a completely useless plan to be devised), then they’re by definition of the senior role, not a senior developer, right?

A senior developer is not a passive position.

Sitting on a Swiss ball hurts me less than a chair. For the first few days it even enforced perfect posture, but that effect went away pretty quickly.