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Take another look. I saw this text at the bottom of mine:
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> Our clients are already asking: "If AI can do this, why do I need a team of five?"
to:
"If AI can do this, why do I even need to do business with your company?"
There were riots? That's the first I heard of it.
> Banning mercury fillings is an easy and cost-effective way to cut pollution... said said Richard Benwell, chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link
> British Dental Association chair, Eddie Crouch, said: “Dental amalgam is tried and tested material and pulling the plug without a transition period would effectively bankrupt NHS dentistry.
Perhaps pulling the teeth with fillings before cremation would be just as environmentally friendly and less likely to bankrupt anyone.
> He said a problem with eliminating fraudulent claims is that “the information that we use through knowledge-based authentication is already in the public domain.”
In my last job, requirements, such as they were, were based on some idea that someone in authority thought we might need. No consideration was given to the needs of the clients of the code. They weren't savvy in the any of the current technologies, so it wasn't even the latest fad.
I developed the skill needed to implement their dumbfsck idea-du-jour quickly and without breaking existing code. However, the resulting code was increasingly more convoluted and incomprehensible. I had inherited a god object that I only added to over time.
When I quit, my boss knew he was not going to find anyone that could keep up my pace, much less understand the code. He tried to get me to stay, but I told him that I will never work on this code again, so there'd be no point in staying.
A couple years later a former coworker told me that the guy that had taken over had a bug in some code that was convoluted but rock solid when I left. I figured he had noodled with the code and broken it. Sucks to be him.
Told my coworker to tell him that my advice it to look for another job.
So yes, I hear you when you say they're perfectly capable of sabotaging themselves.
> Now I totally understand why most computer users aren't interested in an intellectual workout when all they want to do is browse the web or use an app.
This is exactly what my wife's elderly mother wanted to do. We got fed up trying to support her windows computer so I slapped Debian on an old laptop and gave it to her. She loves it and has been using it for years.
What, exactly, would this entail, and how many is "only a few?"