#1 African scammer who would sell out “his country” for the price of X premium has a backdoor to all military infra, Xi is getting a chubby

“Works on my machine”

I am a black box

I tried to get it to build a game of checkers, spent an entire day on it, in the end I could have built the thing myself. Each iteration got slightly worse, and each fix broke more than it corrected.

AI can generate an “almost-checkers” game nearly perfectly every time, but once you start getting into more complex rules like double jumping it just shits the bed.

What these headlines fail to capture is that AI is exceptionally good at bite sized pre-defined tasks at scale, and that is the game changer. Its still very far from being capable of building an entire app on its own. That feels more like 5-10 years out.

3 months maybe, 6 centuries definitely

Its not like jobs will disappear in a single day. Incremental improvements will render lower level tasks obsolete, it already has to a degree.

Someone will still need to translate the business objectives into logical structure, via code, language, or whatever medium. Whether you call that a “coder” or not, is kind of irrelevant. The nerdy introverts will need to translate sales-douche into computer one way or another. Sales-douches are not going to be building enterprise apps from their techbro-hypespeak.

So what you’re saying is… you’re coming for their guns? Just making sure. OK.

They gave me the gold

Nice, a reasonable reply! I’ll bite.

So what seemed to be lost on people was that I’m not defending BMW in any way, but rather pointing out that there mere act of owning a car automatically signs you up for a number of subscriptions, notably: registration, insurance, and energy (gas or electric), but we’ve conditioned ourselves to thinking that somehow those aren’t a subscription which is a delineation without a difference.

I cancelled my subscriptions btw, fuck cars.

I now primarily use the most superior form of transportation ever conceived: my feet.

Just prodding the boiled frogs thinking they’re still sous vide

You do literally get a monthly bill for it, so… yeah?

FuckCars enthusiast actually, something something… so far left you get your roads back

People act like subscriptions are a new thing for cars, and somehow mentally gloss over the fact that they have to physically go in to renew their energy subscription weekly, not to mention the quarterly, and bi-annual subscriptions for oil and various maintenance respectively.

Everything has always been a subscription, you’re just a frog that’s well done.

Don’t get me started on your road subscription.

Its not the IT guys themselves, its the aggregate influence. One large school campus flips the switch to Firefox on their next image deployment its a drop in a bucket, but when 1000 schools, 2000 government agencies and 5000 businesses all suddenly stop using Chrome the graph starts to move, because laypeople just accept the default.

IT guys are like browser-influencers, they tell their parents what to use, friends, and so on. We all used to recommend Chrome, I don’t anymore.

Very similar to the mindset of: if you don’t drive a pickup truck you are a homosexual

Oh how the mighty have fallen

I can still recall my first PC, I used to love smashing the turbo button. No fucking clue what it did, but it sure was fun to press!

They have an existential population problem, chips won’t really fix that. Their tech prowess might delay the inevitable, but they need to start cranking out some babies or they’re on the fast track to stagnation

But surely the desktop PC market is going to bounce back soon

Any day now

IT guys will stop using it…

Which means they’ll stop deploying it as the default browser on some large enterprises, it won’t ship as defaults in pre-baked images going forward.

Average joes and janes will use Safari and Edge depending on OS.

Where is their growth going to come from after this change? Chromebooks? lol.

I hope they do it, it will hurt them in the long run.

You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.

Could turn out to be a good thing. All power users will dump Chrome practically overnight, a huge boon to the alternatives, that could actually give them enough momentum to compete with Google for a change. I’m sure they’ve considered this, probably an empty treat.