These days power both corrupts and causes burnout.

Power doesn't corrupt. It Reveals. We have been sold that idea to keep the people who don't deserve it, in power.

And then there are there dozens (or hundreds?) of influences ignorantly accepting sponsorships.

Luanti + Mineclonia is really good.

I've read this before. Marketing?

I'm the opposite. I started out promising myself I'd install all those handy looking plugins (I had like 20 I wanted to try out). But I've been slippery sloped into building my own Pi extensions and reinventing the wheel many, many times. It's been months and I love it. I just keep discovering and learning, and forgetting, and doing it all over again. I've been building my own harnesses since before that word was so common though, even before Aider was released.

Sounds like a race to the bottom. Mmm bad pun.

Might as well iddqd and idkfa at that point. Or grantme all. Pick your flavor.

"Dave" seems to be a reference to "2001: A Space Odyssey" where the AI becomes ... cheeky ... and no, not in a Pygmalion kind of way (that's coming soon).

I am somewhat more worried about a Darkstar AI.

No one here started with Aider? Or even text-generation-webui? Or SillyTavern? Or were they too pseudo-agentic? :)

IIRC that is exactly how Dragon Naturally speaking did it decades ago.