MeetMeAtTheMovies [they/them]

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Cake day: January 18th, 2026

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  • This is like saying the teen anti-drinking-and-driving campaigns have lost all meaning because adults sometimes drink at bars.

    People with ADHD have a completely different reaction to stimulants than people without it do and the difference in dose between what an addict would take recreationally and what a child takes therapeutically is several orders of magnitude. Giving a therapeutic dose of stimulants to minors with ADHD has a positive effect on health outcomes throughout the rest of their lives, including extending their lives on average and lowering suicide rates.






  • I think the unfortunate takeaway from this story is that rewriting a codebase of that size for under $200k using AI makes this endeavor suddenly feasible in a way that it previously wouldn’t have been. Some organizations have reason enough to spend a year rewriting with multiple engineers, but have no interest in a year-long feature freeze. But a 2-week feature freeze? The current money is starting to make sense and more orgs are going to start biting.