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Chimp with a Machine Gun
Chimp with a Machine Gun

It is a deliberately ugly line. Chuck uses it to dehumanise Jimmy and to justify the lengths he is willing to go to keep him out of the law. The metaphor is partly fair: Jimmy genuinely does take risks, bend rules, cut corners, and put real people at real risk. It is also partly unfair: it leaves out everything human about Jimmy, and treats *capable of doing damage* as the same thing as *guaranteed to do damage*. That tension is the whole point of the show.

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go hang with go lang
go hang with go lang

From following Go news to building a real developer tool with it -- without writing a single line of Go myself. I used Cursor and Claude to generate a high-performance REST API that replaced hours of manual AWS log debugging with minutes of concurrent searching. Now I am learning Go from the code AI wrote.