Mitja Pagon

Idealist in thought, pragmatist in action, oxymoron in life. #progressive

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

French economist Thomas Piketty to Zack Polanski,

"This neoliberal turn of the 80s has not been a huge success for the middle class and for average living standards"

"The big promise that was made in the 80s by Reagan and Thatcher was, look, we are going to kill off progressive taxation, maybe inequality will rise, but the size of the pie is going to grow so fast like you've never seen."

"Average wages, average income are going to grow like you've never seen. And so everybody will be happy."

"30 years later, 40 years later. When I look at Brexit or when I look at the Trumpist United States, I don't see, very happy people."

"And I think partly because of the failure of this promise and this is why right wing parties in these two countries, the Republican in the US and the Conservative and now Reform Party in Britain, have turned anti migrant toward identity politics because they have not delivered on the economic front and on living standards"

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

If you ever wondered why @Microsoft products suck, look no further.

[Tig @tigkindel]

Let me put this differently:

When I led the teams that built:

- Parts of COM/ActiveX
- Parts of IIS
- Parts of Windows Media Center
- Windows Home Server
- The Windows Phone 7 Develop Platform & App Store
- Alexa Smart Home
- Control4 OS3 & dozens of Control4 devices

...I looked at almost no code. But I was the guy who crafted the vision, created the plan, rallied the resources, and then orchestrated it all to create each of those products. Some were big. Some were tiny. All were quality.

The only difference now is instead of orchestrating teams of PMs, SDEs, UX Designers, and QA folks, I orchestrate AI agents.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things.

If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different.

This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand.

Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.

As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes.

According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour.

Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need.

Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital.

Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins.

Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency.

Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition.

Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow.

So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture.

If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

Hey @Dnevnik_si a vas je vsaj malo sram, da so na vaši spletni strani oglasi za prevare? A je važno da služite?

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Why did our ruling class not invest in decarbonising faster to avoid this acceleration in deadly heatwaves that scientists warned would come? Because of the capitalist law of value.

Capital invests in what is most profitable to capital, rather than what is most necessary for humanity, so our ruling class keeps ploughing investment into fossil fuels and SUVs, while we get far too little in renewables and public transit, even while the world burns around us.

We have more than enough capacity (labour, factories, technology) to address the climate crisis, but as long as capital controls investment and production we are prevented from doing it.

We are trapped by the capitalist law of value, living in a miserable shadow of the world we could have.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

AI, on it's own, absolutely sucks at coding and if you think otherwise, so do you.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

@MladenPrajdic Ja ne delujejo, oziroma delujejo vse slabše, to se strinjam, o vzrokih verjetno ne, vsaj občutek imam tak.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

Slovenski "podjetniki" in njihov domet, da o komentarjih ne zgubljam besed. In ja že 18 let plačujem za JOLP.

[Mladen Prajdic @MladenPrajdic]

Cak, AJPES ti zaračuna objavo letnega poročila, ne mors pa recit da ti ga ne?!

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

@MladenPrajdic Sorry, za cca 40eur letno se ne sekiram. Za dostop do letnih poročil, kar sem rabil, še nikoli nisem plačal. Vsak mesec plačam državi cca 1500 eur, bolj kot to, da plačujem, me moti kaj za to dobim.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

@MladenPrajdic Nimam, zabavno mi je, ko nekdo soli pamet drugim, potem se pa izkaže, da niti ne ve, da je treba solnico prej napolniti.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

Pravi človek, ki verjetno ni končal osnovne šole.

[Maks @Maks06664407]

@TVOdmevi Kdor zabije 5 let življenja na FDV-ju ali Filozofski fakulteti je pač zabluzil. Ta ne razume, d bo po petih letih praktično nezaposljiv, ali pa bo delal za slabo plačo. To mora mladim nekdo razložiti. Če želijo dobro živeti, naj študirajo na tehničnih faksih, ali pa grejo delat.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

Nivo slovenistana. Ukvarjamo se s kavči. Mi nismo vredni svoje države.

[N1 Slovenija @n1slovenija]

Koliko kavčev imajo v pisarni poslanske skupine Levice in Vesne ter koliko jih imajo drugi?
https://t.co/0UI0Xu5pth

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

Nacionalna sramota.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

Taught by example.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

One of the most important things that Elon taught me:

People engaging in fraud are always the first and loudest to complain.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

The mental decline is real and is sad to see.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Whoah, self-driving cars compete with airlines. I never considered that till now.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

The more time you spend on here, the more you realize there is no salvation for humanity.
Stupid people took over and there so many of them, any resistance is futile.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

@APompliano "AI can make employees more productive, which is widely accepted as fact"

Widely accepted != fact. In fact most research shows the opposite, what is undisputed is that it gives the illusion of productivity gains, while mostly making you less productive overall.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

Come back when you've build something used by someone other than your parents. Or better yet, go back to crypto grifting, which is probably what you were doing before AI.

[Layton Gott @Layton_Gott]

I don’t care if using AI to code is not “real coding”

I care if the product works.

Nobody opens your app and asks how many lines you wrote manually.

They click around for 10 seconds and decide if it sucks or not.

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

I think we're quickly arriving at a reality where people realize node.js was 100% a fluke, and this guy is full of shit.

[Ryan Dahl @rough__sea]

i think we're quickly arriving at a reality where SWEs will be expected to be committing 24/7

[Mitja Pagon @sect2k]

"You can build a production-ready app in a weekend with Claude Code."

Tell me you've never built a production app in your life, without telling me how shit at coding you are. LMAO 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

Apple does not care how you built it.

Not the model you used.

Not the framework.

Not how fast you shipped.

The App Store review process has one job.

Reject anything that does not meet the rules.

And vibe coded apps are failing it at a rate that should embarrass every builder who skipped this part.

The painful truth:

You can build a production-ready app in a weekend with Claude Code.

You can get it rejected in 48 hours for something you could have fixed in 20 minutes.

Privacy policy missing. Placeholder content still in the build. Incomplete metadata. Broken flows Apple tests on purpose.

The code was never the problem.

The submission was.

This guide covers every reason vibe coded apps fail review and exactly how to pass it the first time.

Bookmark this before you hit submit.