I think the workflow your OP here and I use treats the timestamps (numbers) as the only value that matters. The "converted to" format is always just a temporary client side rendering, so the meticulous attention to conversions seems overkill. But I do see that there is tons of stuff about Date that is best ignored

the author asks one interesting question and then glides right by it. If the agents only need their own code, what should that code look like? If all their learning has come from old human code, how will that change in the future as the ecosystem fills up with agent code?

crux: "the internet feels bad". But, most of the internet is still there, so how could that be. I think more specifically, the current mode of attention capture feels bad - what the majority of people are interacting with feels bad. But those are not "the internet".

A resurgence of people learning LAMP stack is not going to address the Big Problem. I think we should be asking why algo-driven social media roflstomps the indie web, not how to get more web hosters into the indie web.

AI for decades has been the word to mean "frontier capability which is not fully developed yet". It is not a pitch for end users. Perhaps your product produces quality code. Perhaps it produces highly novel trip itineries. Say that, but don't say AI. The end user does not know the difference between a neural net and a for loop.

because it affects other people; it's not just shame for shame's sake, it's learning what effect we have on the people around us and how to navigate that. Guy who has lived with a lot of people here.

federally subsidized solo mountain hiking for the un-initiated. I will pay the tax

Computers / the web are a fast route to information, but they are also a storehouse of information; a ledger. This is the old "information wants to be free, and also very expensive." I don't want all the info on my PC, or the bank database, to be 'alive', I want it to be frozen in kryptonite, so it's right where I left it when I come back.

I think we're slowly allowing AI access to the interface layer, but not to the information layer, and hopefully we'll figure out how to keep it that way.

I like the pushback because it means less competition in the native framework space

personal take: store dates as bigints. rendering them is just a user interface issue. no need for Date parsing except to play nicely with legacy codebases. Milliseconds are your friend

I think there's a difference between software and scripts too. Unrepentant scripter4lyfe here