stein1946

Why do we even have 'private' train companies again?

> You can just as well argue that labor is getting more expensive in the West because of two non-market pressures. First, we have a multitude of government programs that seek to eliminate extreme poverty, so there are fewer people who are desperate to take any job for any money. Second, you have consumer protection policies that make it genuinely expensive to, say, be a HVAC repairman. Educational requirements, permits, licensing, business insurance, waste disposal, etc.

How's what you wrote substantiated at all?

To me it seems you are suggesting we let people starve so that labour you characterize as "minimally-skilled backyard" is cheap.

You also seem to be suggesting that consumer protection policies need to go as well. I assume we are going to trust the end consumer to do due diligence cause "they know whats better for them?"

If they get a quote of 10k and they cannot get a better one, they might as well start writing that check.

> in every industry where AI has achieved any level of mastery.

Which industries are those? What does that mastery look like?

> There's a divide between people ...

No, there is not. If one is not willing to figure out a couple of ffmpeg flags, comb through k8s controller code to see what is possible and fix that booting error in their VMs then failure in "mental experiences" is certain.

The most successful people I have met in this profession are the ones who absolutely do not tolerate magic and need to know what happens from the moment they press the ON on their machine, till the moment they turn is OFF again.

Looking forwards to hearing about how we should let the market sort it out instead of regulating the shit out of this dystopian abomination.

God, the fact that everyone and their mother think they need to have an opinion regarding "agentic" wankering is absurd.

There has been no discernible augmentation on a programmer's skills with these "tools". Zero, none, zilch.

Stop it.

You are making noise in a profession which a single mistake takes the "working" to "not working".

I swear the whole West's economic model is hyping bullshit to the uninitiated and make it seem plausible enough to either buy in whatever their selling or just plain self-satisfying "look at me I got a blog and writing code is challenging so here are some random ramblings about architecture springled with startupy vibes".

Petition to block "AI" stuff in this site for - at least - year.

Again, technological measures against this kind of attacks on ownership rights fall short and are probably what conglomerates want since it keeps the tech people busy in a self-satisfying "fight" against the big corporation.

You need legislation.

Doesn't this apply to any product though?

Can someone explain to me why don't we have open source WiFi chips?

Are they so complicated that we can't get a open hardware pcie adapter?

You call it discrimination, they call it employment at will.