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  • Artemis is a boondoggle corporate giveaway. Its main purpose is to funnel money into the pockets of big contractors as quickly and efficiently as possible.

    I worked on it for a year and a half, and saw so much mismanagement and self-sabotage, I can’t even say. I’ve made multiple posts about it in the past. NASA spent $10 million at least having my team fail to build something that we could have built for probably $2.5 million. Most of that money vanished into the pockets of a giant, evil corporation that mostly builds weapons. I can tell you the guys (and they were all men) that we worked with from that company were laughing all the way to the bank when they canceled our project. Now they’re launching without that component.

    I have lots of feelings.










  • I’ve been forseeing a supply chain apocalypse, especially in the NPM ecosystem, coming for years. Exacerbated by LLMs telling people what libraries to use, including versions, and then people just cut and paste that in and walk away. Our standard practice of devs doing all their coding on a messy local machine, just running whatever stacks they’re working with on bare metal, often side by side, just in different virtual environments, always seemed like a powder keg waiting to go off.

    Now with glassworm and shai halud, I’m feeling very prescient.