June 2023: a Google data center in France floods and they call it a “water intrusion event”

March 2026: an Amazon data center in the Middle East is literally struck by a fucking ballistic missile in a hot war and they call it “impacted by objects”

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.

This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf

“The single most common way technical founders kneecap themselves is not starting from a problem but from a solution. Usually they have invented some form of technology that can do something new and impressive, and they are looking around for a problem that could be solved with it. […] A founder with a technology in hand will tell themselves the most astonishing fairy tales about hypothetical problems that people might have that the technology is a solution for.”

@HalvarFlake’s guide to Entrepreneurship

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-pic0wdKVJGKaxGpxckO07BRSGAhxFE8uQ7GWmrx-kw/