Benefits of centralization: Someone can counteract harmful interactions.

Drawbacks of centralization: Someone can decide legitimate interactions are harmful.

It does suck when the “harmful interaction management system” goes haywire. But I’m not sure it sucks enough that I’d rather simply not have one.

Crypto grifters trying to capitalize on the payment processor censorship drama (by portraying it as pushing people towards crypto)

Funny. I dislike vibe coding because it takes away the “art”.

Implicit in these remarks is the notion that there is something undesirable about an area of human activity that is classified as an “art”; it has to be a Science before it has any real stature. On the other hand, I have been working for more than 12 years on a series of books called “The Art of Computer Programming.”

Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art