While I absolutely believe in climate change, I DO think that there are people out there talking about it as fanatically as the most MAGA Trump worshiper talks about Trump. We have to be careful to not let the most fringe element of any issue become the de facto voice of the issue because media, both social and otherwise, profits on drama.
Even before AI, there was a serious hiring problem in the United States. Companies seem hell bent on not hiring full time employees at a livable wage. I don't blame the technology, but I do blame the greed of business owners and investors.
While its easy to look at the big picture and long term and say everything will all work out, there are so many individuals who are being hurt because of layoffs, reduced hiring, etc. My team is stressed out because they feel an axe hanging over their heads because private equity has declared no more hiring US developers. It's either AI or outsourcing. We should try to be empathetic because real people are losing their livelihoods and the long term isn't going to help them one bit.
And yet all sorts of people are advocating for using Chinese LLMs because they are less expensive. It seems like a very risky move to save a few dollars.
It kind of makes sense because gasoline taxes help fund road projects. Of course, if you live in a state like Pennsylvania, there's not much evidence of real improvements to the pothole infested roads.
It comes from watching Linked In and talking to people in real life. Again, I don't think it's AI eating the jobs. I think it's greed that's eating jobs.
I disagree - at least for the near future. If companies stop outsourcing to poorer countries, they'll be hit now. If so many Americans lose their jobs that nobody has money to buy anything, that will affect poorer countries too. It's not the technology of AI that's necessarily causing the problems. It's the greed of all the shareholders and business owners laying off everybody in favor of automation. This has been building up for years - even before AI. The quest to replace human jobs with gig economy workers and automation is also a relevant factor.
Conventional wisdom always used to be that China would never compete with the US because they were rote learners and we were more creative. I'd say that is no longer the case. China has been doing a LOT of interesting things. I joke with my son that given the state of the US lately, I'd almost rather move to China.
He wasn't really getting rid of stuff though. He was moving it to "cold storage" so the primary storage was clear. When he needed a rarely used thing again, he could get it out of cold storage.
When I was growing up, I remember some drama because East German and Soviet male athletes were trying to compete as women. If male to female trans athletes were allowed to compete, I imagine it would just be a matter of time before a female athlete would HAVE to be trans in order to stand a competitive chance.
This is interesting. It seems like it may only be applicable to brand new projects though. Could you envision it working for large, existing applications that wouldn't have specs for the existing code?
Businesses should definitely support the open source projects that they use. I'm still astounded that professional developers seem so adverse to paying for the tools and libraries that they use to make their own money.
Cause what this country needs is to automate away even the gig economy jobs that are out there. Let's keep making a few people rich and screw all the normal people out there.
I don't really need AI in my browser. I do like spaces in Arc, and how it handles cleaning up my tabs. The color coding of the sidebar for the various profiles is the one feature I haven't been able to find in things like Orion, Vivaldi, Firefox, etc. By color coding, I mean the ability to make the entire sidebar a different color, which helps me make certain I don't do stupid things in prod.
I also hated that they were trying to make it a free tool, which would mean selling user data to make money, and would require growth at all costs.
These days, I'm trying to migrate to paid tools. I would much rather work with a slower growing company that has a real business model other than grow and sell out.
I love the Arc Browser, but they discontinued development on that. I honestly have no interest in Dia at this point. AI is already available in any of the tools that I would want it in, and I don't think I would want any one company having visibility into more of my apps and data.
I don't think this is true of all companies. My current company doesn't base bonuses on individual contributions, and even went so far as to reduce the number of "story points" that top contributors did in sprints so that the rest of the team wouldn't look bad.
Not sure if this is an option where you are, but I became a "stringer" for my local newspaper for a while. Writing tightly, under deadline, with an editor reviewing my work helped improve my clarity quite a bit.
It would be cool if they could put some of this technology into commercial grade dehumidifiers even before they get put into HVAC systems. If you could run a super efficient portable dehumidifier and boost the performance of your HVAC system, it would be much faster to reduce overall energy consumption because it would be far less expensive than upgrading an entire HVAC system.
Would love one - but I was recently burned by an expensive Android e-ink tablet with janky software and meh hardware. I need to be able to touch and play with one before I'd even consider buying it. I hope you make it into retail stores.