Right now during the recording of this,

there's an insane windstorm going on.

It's probably the wrath of God being so

upset because what I'm about to say next

should never have been said. What's the

first thing you think about when I say

an adult only 18 or older ID? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That that Yeah, that

probably is what you think about, huh?

That's because you're disgusting. Ew.

Gross.

Now, if you didn't think about something

inappropriate, you might have thought

about this right here. Yes, this is an

IDE. That is a person vibe coding. That

is BOBA on said screen. Now, you're

probably asking yourself, what is going

on inside of this editor? Well, it turns

out Chad IDE, which by the way, invested

by YC. YC actually backed this company.

YC saw the BBA on the screen and said,

"Oh my gosh, girl, have you seen the

size of my Rails app?" [laughter]

Oh, [gasps] just want to let you know

that I know a thing or two about Rails.

Ew, gross. Yes, but chat ID apparently

while you're prompting during the

prompting phase, you can then go on

Tinder. Okay, because you know you sure

you could like review code, become an

expert, actually have something

meaningful in your life. Or you could

look again at just BA. They're probably

AI generated BABA at this point also,

just FYI. You know, get catfished, son.

get catfished while you're using AI.

There's something kind of funny about

that. But no, I'm actually not

referencing any of those things. Okay,

that's not what we're talking about

today. Today, we are talking about Zed.

Yes, the probably kind of popular,

probably well-known, hey, people seem to

have some sort of vague feelings of

happiness about editor Zed. Now, they

recently sent off an email. Now, me

personally, I use Neoim. Never received

an email from Neovim. Hey, Justin, if

you're listening, I'd love to have an

email from you. benevolent dictator. Any

day of the week you want to shoot me an

email, I'll read it. Okay. Appreciate

you, bud. But they send off emails to

let you know like some things have

changed and it's kind of part of the

requirements, I assume. And this time it

was about a privacy policy change. Can

we all just admit no, nobody reads

privacy policy? And so part of Zed is

that they want to actually make it a

little bit more approachable to read

privacy policy. So they kind of give you

like a bullet point by bullet point

breakdown of instead of giving you the

legal ease, which no one can understand

except for if you, you know, get paid

$1,500 an hour. Instead, they give you

like human readable bullet points. And

one of the bullet points says, "You must

be 18 or older to use zed." You could

imagine my incredul at this. Ain't no

ain't no way I believe in that. There's

just no way that it requires you to be

18 or older. Okay. Uh-uh. Not. Nope. It

reminds me of the time that Gemini

refused to show somebody who was under

18 C++ code because honestly C++ code

conversion will need to refrain from

showing you code examples or solutions

that directly involved concept as you're

under 18. Concepts are advanced features

of C++ that introduce potential risks

and I want to prioritize your safety. I

hate to burst your bubble but of course

the internet and the Z email weren't as

funny as the actual reality is. Uh, it

turns out no, it you don't have to be 18

years old to use the IDE, but you do

have to be 18 years or older to be able

to use the IDE plus the AI features. And

so they end up responding saying like,

hey, you know, we're a little bit

imprecise on our language in the email.

A little bit imprecise. I love that

phrase. We are imprecise. No, no, no,

no, no. You weren't imprecise. You were

just wrong. You can just say, hey,

whoopsies. We forgot a word. We forgot

the the service part of the 18 or older.

Okay, we we put the word zed and not the

AI service part. I like how they're just

like imprecise. It's ridiculous.

Anyways, the reason being is that they

actually wanted to have this threshold

due to children's data privacy

obligations under COPA, equivalent

international frameworks, and an

increasing number of state and regional

laws that extend protection to anyone

under 18. Now, that's a lot of that's a

lot of words, and honestly, you'll be a

bit shocked about some of these things.

Now, first off, COPA, it's everything to

do with children under 13. So, honestly,

what they are saying about 18 and COPA,

you can just take it, put it in your

hand, and just throw it out the window

cuz it just doesn't have it doesn't at

least seem to say the word 18 anywhere

on here. It references children under 13

several several several several several

times. Maybe there's something kind of

deeper in the actual legal document, but

the FTC's business guidance seems to

only refer to anything with 13 or under

13. But when I asked Grock, I was just

like, "Yo, Grock, tell me tell me what's

what's some data laws around people that

are, you know, 13 to 18." It turns out

quite a few states have data laws, which

is kind of a weird thing. This is one of

those things that I kind of dislike a

lot about the internet because one state

can make up a rule or one country can

make up a rule and then everybody has

it. You can remember, you remember the

old cookie banners, you know those

things that pop up and make you

literally just say, "I accept." That's

it's worthless. It was a stupid thing.

It literally did nothing and that came

from a rule from the EU. It it has

largely provided zero value. Okay. And

yet everybody's internet got affected.

Well, this is another one of those

versions. California has a bunch of

mandate over how data collection works,

how privacy settings, and how all this

stuff kind of works together along with

a few other states. Connecticut has some

rules. Florida has a rule. New York has

a very funny rule. Informed consent from

a minor. Yo, dog. minors don't have

informed consent. I hate to break this

to you, but they're like, "Oh, yeah, but

if they're like 13 or older, they can

understand their data privacy and how it

relates to big corporations, you know,

aggregating and selling data." No, they

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So, at the end of the day, they ended up

saying, hey, you got to be 18 or older

to use Zed's AI enabled software as a

service offering. And the reason being

is that they they don't have the size of

a team that can kind of handle and and

hurdle through the legal ease of

everything. Now, this is kind of funny

because we all know what's going to

happen, right? There's going to probably

be the cool parent at the high school

who allows their kid to have, you know,

like some AI with their friends. you

know, they don't allow them to go out

and drive around with the AI or do

anything like that or take AI to say

somebody else's house, but you know, all

the kids can come to their house and

they can all consume AI before the age

of 18 on Zed. And like sure, like I

always wanted to get invited to that

party and you know, guess I was never

cool enough to be part of the cool kids

crew always got to, you know, be using

AI on the weekends where me and my

friends, we just didn't have that as an

option. But the thing about states being

able to make rules that are like

affecting large portions of people and

including people not even from America

is actually a really bad feature of the

internet. It's a really bad feature of

developing apps that due to how

complicated things are. Individual

entities can kind of dictate how the

world operates. Like right here, this is

a perfect example. New California law

says that all operating systems,

including Linux, need to have some form

of age verification at account setup.

Now, when I hear age verification, what

I hear is age verification. Yes, the V

word, the thing that says that not only

do you put the little age in, you have

to like upload your ID and say, "Hey,

this is me." No, actually, this is

actually me. Which seems insane, but

here's the deal is that this one little

law that's being put in place by Gavin

over here, little Gabby boy. Guess what?

Every single operating system under the

sun's going to have to implement this.

And that means the entire world gets

this rule. the entire world will get

just a little bit more data collection

for everything. Now, we know that

Microsoft is probably giddy about this.

They're probably like, "Oh gosh, we're

going to create a new co-pilot

application called Copilot age

verificator. Oh, it's going to be so

good. I can't wait to have co-pilot age

verificator. That's going to be my

favorite of all the co-pilots." But just

like the cookie banners, it turns out

this age verification thing is is really

stupid. It, you know, there's no

verification currently going on. Okay,

first off, does Linux even have

accounts? No, not really. They have a

user login. Second off, in this context,

account means user login. The law

requires you to have a box after

username and password that is how old

are you? And no, I'm not kidding.

There's no verification required. The OS

is just required to make you enter

something into that box. That just

means, you know, those like, hey, how

old are you Steam pages? Dude, my kid

knows how to get my kid is like 11 and

10. They're like, oh, okay, how old am I

to look at this game? Okay, here's dad's

birthday. Bada bing, bada boom. Wow. Oh

my gosh. We got hackers here getting

around age verification. And the fact

that one state, one state out of 50 out

of one country out of 200 plus, okay,

we're talking about one over 50 over

200, a very small portion of the world

despite having a very large portion of

the world's GDP. And apparently they're

fumbling the bag on that right now. But

nonetheless, that one little place can

make a rule that affects everybody. It

just it is just the worst setup. Like we

c how can this be? How can one person

make this? Now I know I I I don't do

politics. I don't talk about politics,

but this is one of those situations

where I lament kind of the political

nature of things sometimes because I

mean look at us age verification in

Linux. Arch Linux is going to require

you to have username, password, and age.

And you and we all know what happens

here. Okay, people are like, "Oh, that's

a slippery slope." That's that's a

fallacy. Well, guess what? It's

everything's a slippery slope, brother.

We all know where this is going, right?

Which is just going to be the continual

intrusion into everybody's life. It's

going to be entering your age today. In

10 years, it'll be uploading your ID and

having your eyeballs scanned and your

anus scanned to be able to have the

perfect World Coin application to really

verify you that to Sam Alman that you

actually are who you are. or then you

can finally receive your UBI from Sam

Alman's World Coin Tits. Wonderful.

Absolutely wonderful. Okay, that was a

little Okay. Hey. Okay. Hey, I'm sorry

that was a little dark. I got a little

dark there. Okay. This is normally like

a little bit more of a chipper channel

and so my bad on getting a little

intense there. Okay. I will not bring up

Anusa scanning anymore. Okay. I'll keep

the anuses free from this channel from

here on out. Okay. The name is actually

I mean I'm I'm not lying when I say

stuff about the anus though. It does

turn out there is a smart toilet that

can identify who's using it based on the

shape of the anus. Okay, [laughter]

you know even just saying that I feel

like such an idiot. I can't believe

[laughter]

you know. Hey, if you can't laugh your

way through the apocalypse, what are you

doing with your life? Th This is funny.

Okay, this is really funny. A gen.