Having a government payment processor I'm sure would be quite a nightmare as well. Imagine your credit card is the DMV.
The reason these credit card companies wield so much power is the modern duopolistic system. "Monopolies are ILLEGAL" they said. Thusly, an array of duopolistic megacorps essentially acting as a monopoly. Something something game theory. Visa and mastercard. Coke and Pepsi. iPhone and Android. Windows and MacOS. Google search and google search. NASDAQ and NYSE.
The answer is to have 10+ actually competing, financially healthy payment processors. At some point the cabal-like duopolistic behavior breaks down.
it's laissez faire towards monopolies, let them be
but not laissez faire when a company is about to collapse, then the government rescues them. laissez faire would be less sympathetic. i.e. bank bailouts of 2008, automaker bailouts of 2020, current intel bailouts
thus not only is the government allowing monoplies/duopolies, but in fact pumping money into them to continue their survival
the best kill switch is to write a slop codebase only you understand. no intentional evil little mechanisms, no intentional breaking, just the slop, slop written in good faith. now that is legal
To be fair, LLM can cut through unclear codebases like a hot knife through butter. The LLM may make some mistakes, but it gets the general idea.
There is one exception. It is when the code has no type definitions and obfuscated variable names, or worse yet, has incorrect type definitions and misleading variable names, but such code is not maintainable at all anyway, even for oneself.
In summary, even for the author to understand a codebase over a long period, it has to be well organized because human memory doesn't recall all the little details.
tylenol is the one that's hepatotoxic (spanish for harmful to the liver) - ibuprofen is nephrotoxic (italian for harmful to the kidney) maybe you are mixing up your very similar painkillers. in kiddos it's common to go back and forth between them for pain control, thusly attenuating specific insult to liver or kidney. then there's aspirin, don't give that to kids, that's a whole thing
this piece de resistance swan song is only 35% fish but then my fish tank is like 90% various formats of blackface fish, nazi fish, and swimming penises
The reason these credit card companies wield so much power is the modern duopolistic system. "Monopolies are ILLEGAL" they said. Thusly, an array of duopolistic megacorps essentially acting as a monopoly. Something something game theory. Visa and mastercard. Coke and Pepsi. iPhone and Android. Windows and MacOS. Google search and google search. NASDAQ and NYSE.
The answer is to have 10+ actually competing, financially healthy payment processors. At some point the cabal-like duopolistic behavior breaks down.