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Another fun fact: The USAF data center I worked at in 1987 was still using punched cards and paper tape.

It might be more accurate to say that many retail investors are ignoring big tech’s debt.

It’s not that coding is easy. That misses the point. The point is, coding is recurrent. Automation follows recurrence, not ease.

That’s exactly what was done.

FWIW nerds pre-date the internet. We used to get together in user groups, like at public libraries, and talk tech, logic and reasoning.

I refactor more than 27% of my handwritten code. Always have.

He was handed a gameboy before he could walk, but it didn’t lessen his humanity. He was handed a smartphone before middle school, but his humanity remained intact. He started calling the “people” he met on social media his friends, and humanity didn’t suffer. But alas, using AI is a bridge too far.

It may be surprising, but community participation isn’t a priority for all developers. Myself, I want to write reliable code and then live my life. If I can do that more efficiently with AI assistance, that’s a win for me.

See also: California

Yesterday I needed to create an SDS (material safety data sheet) for one of my products. This would usually take me a few hours, maybe half a day. An agent did it for me in 5 minutes. This example isn’t unique; for a small business owner, AI is a quality of life improvement.

See below. Small business owners who learn how to use the tools right are one example.

I’ve been a small business (manufacturing) owner for about 25 years. AI saves me time, extends my reach and reduces my time to market. AI isn’t a threat to me; it’s a daily tool I use. I’m also a former SWE - I took time most of Anthropic’s courses to maximize my ability to leverage the tools. It’s a win/win for me.

Disruption, by definition, has winners and losers and the losers tend to be more visible, more vocal, and more immediate than the winners.

If I were an adversary of the U.S. I would encourage anti-AI sentiment among young people, to my strategic advantage.

I don’t blame them for how they feel. In fact, I feel sorry for them. Covid took a few years from them, then AI comes along and invalidates their career choices. That’s a hard case.

Actually, that’s a tale as old as humanity itself.

Most of them won’t be unemployed.

Of course. Multiple things can be true.

Most of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.

We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the person I thought I was, therefore AI is evil, doesn’t work right, is bad for the environment, is bad for society, et. al.

“This thing makes me feel less special, therefore I don’t like it.”

An implementation of 7GUIs would help demonstrate the completeness of the framework. https://eugenkiss.github.io/7guis/

These were nice little machines. Learned to code Pascal on one.