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As the major purchaser of Russian oil, this is shift by China will seriously weaken Russia in the long term.

It's not the treaties that protect Taiwan.

If China takes TSMC, the USA may loose their dominance in IT.

The NASDAQ would collapse overnight.

Call it the blackjack rule ... once you cross 21 it's a bust.

But it will help

It's the same rational companies apply when they pay new hires more than existing staff for the same job.

Both the governments and the companies are counting on the underlings to stay put.

While it is harder to switch country than it is to switch employer, the optimal strategy for the citizen/employee is the same in both cases: Hop to the better deal as soon as there is one available - show no loyalty, you'll never get any in return.

Google's systems were designed to index mountains of low value data at hitherto unseen scale, and they're good at that. But, to-the-second system-wide precision with full audit trails ... not so much.

You keep seeing startups with ex-Googlers that think they can "disrupt" Fintech with Google's "secret sauce" ... this tends to go badly.

I've had to clean up one of these messes where, in all seriousness, even a pre-2000 LAMP stack (never mind Java) implemented by people who understood the finance domain would have worked better.

Google's code, tooling and accompanying practices are developing a reputation for being largely useless outside Google ... and many are starting to suspect it's alleged value even inside Google is mostly cult dogma.

Just used 3 tier nested sub selects and joins to diagnose a major incident, the breadth of what it can process is awesome.

Without SQL there would have been no way to determine the extent of the issue.

People forget that SQL is the only 4th gen language in common prod use.

Python, Java, C# are only 3rd gen.

If the only reason I'm doing something is for the company, whatever the task is ... it's on the clock.

On the subject of relative pay, we may see a change soon.

The IT industry is dominated by bad (and overpaid) managers, where the only useful function they provide is to aggregate information and pass it up the report chain.

If ever there was a role suitable for replacing with AI it is this one.

because there's Python

You're over thinking it.

Americans are just fatter.

"While there were layoffs in the tech sector over the past two years, Donna Noonan, Financial Services Ireland Skillnet network manager at Ibec, points out that most were in areas such as human resources and marketing, meaning hard tech skills are as in demand as ever."

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40681920

Or they can introduce laws that (while also protecting citizens rights) break down the economies of scale advantages currently enjoyed by US big tech.

It's like having a team of hyperactive interns at your disposal.

They'll fetch you all the latest libs, best practices, code samples, etc.

But they have no idea how to apply it to the business case at hand, how to secure the code, what real world edge cases to protect against.

And half the time their code is suboptimal or doesn't quite compile ... and wait till they try complex async ...

It's a force-multiplier for good/experienced engineers, but it's going to devastate the market for white-collar sweatshops.

Everyone will have a personal AI concierge, capable of consuming all their media and then re-displaying it for them with just the bits they want (no ads).

The current digital ad industry is doomed.

They made a very valid contribution.

On the prior point of is it affordable, local storage is not just affordable, but is now cheaper than a subscription.

For Texas just have 2 gun pics per porn pic ... then you're OK.

Soooo ...

We'll have to start by replacing the CEOs and work our way down as AI costs drop?

Step 1: the C-Suite sells out middle management in return for a bigger year end bonus.

Step 2: the CEO sells out the rest of the C-Suite for an even bigger year end bonus.

Step 3: the shareholders replace the CEO, promoting one of his now AI automated fellow C-suite, to maximize shareholder profit.

It's corporate hunger games ... just without winners.

There's also AI's dark secret coming out -> it's very expensive to run.

But it's still WAY cheaper than upper management salaries, so, to employ classic MBA logic, they are the optimal staff to replace so as to maximize cost savings.

which means you don't need the man to feed it

Those aren't weasel words, they're the honest truth.

In fact if you want weasel words, follow Musk (although that's more a rabid weasel ... or perhaps a hyena).

If Twitter's decline is anything to go by, one might assume that Tesla succeeded despite Musk ... just a right product at the right time ... and he got lucky.