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I am not sure if I agree with the choice either, but that’s the explanation.
Most professions have a much higher risk of physical violence, for instance.
When you want to make changes to the code (which is what we spend most of our time on), you’ll have to either (1) modify the prompt and accept the risk of using the new code or (2) modify the original code, which you can’t do unless you know the lower level of abstraction.
Recommended reading: https://ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silver-bullet
I do not think a language barrier is at play; Norwegians and the other Scandinavians are among the most fluent English speakers of English as a second language in Europe, surpassed perhaps only by the Dutch.
I have worked with passenger rail transport. Knowing the quirks of that domain, I am quite impressed with air travel software. Anecdotally, I have rarely heard of cases of «Computer says no» in air travel, which are abundant in most other domains.
While there is certainly such a thing as bad software, a lot of old software actually has its merits, and its users will often tell you about them if you ask. In my experience, developing a desktop app for a point of sales/backoffice, the users were often very satisfied with the old software we were replacing. They liked how fast they got things done with it: For instance, the old software had keyboard shortcuts for everything. Its layout was more information dense.
While streetcars may have made it easier to transport people, you still need to deliver goods to stores. There’s also the problem of having to wait for tracks to be built.
Seoul being close to the border with North-Korea, I first suspected that they were about missile tests. When I got an app to translate the messages, they were all about lost elders.
Seoul is a city of 10 million people.
However, you only get to see one moment at a time, requiring you to scroll horizontally through the day, and the temperature is only shown as a number.
https://apps.apple.com/no/app/yr/id490989206?l=nb
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nrk.yr&pcam...
The original game was covered by two patents. Parker Brothers bought them from the creator after finding out that Charles Darrow had lied when he claimed that Monopoly was his own invention.
A good poet says complex things using few words. A bad poet is someone who conveys something simple using a lot of words.
How? I have signed a few petitions, but living in Norway, I do not have a representative to write to
People call customer service because they don’t know what to do. It would be better for most customers to talk to a bot that they can catch making a mistake.
Recent example: https://bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-chatbot-gave-a-b-c-man-th...
When finding and copying, you have to employ at least some degree of critical thinking. The result is rarely the first on the search results, and usually cannot be used without some adaptation. Generated solutions usually require less adaptation.
A good book on the subject is “Blood in the Machine” (2023) by Brian Merchant, which is about what the Luddites actually meant. The 99 Percent Invisible podcast recently interviewed the author: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/blood-in-the-machine/