The current economic regime is less like "capitalism" and more like "feudalism with corporations."

My all-time favorite software engineering podcast is Developer Voices. There's some AI stuff in there, but entirely from the perspective of experienced programmers who like programming, but who also like the idea of learning how to appropriately use a new and powerful tool to help get the job done. Chris Jenkins does a really good job.

This is what happens when you don't give people the choice to ride trains (or other forms of mass transit).

Good thing I like old cars.

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Absolutely, the author needs to be able to reason about their changes, no matter what. However, the reason why I think the two situations are fundamentally different, though, is that it's a lot easier to validate the existence of features than it is the non-existence of bugs or malicious behavior. The biggest risk to removing code is breaking preexisting features, whereas the biggest risk to adding code is introducing malicious behavior.

I'm the cloud infrastructure business we like to call that the 9mm test. It's quite effective.

Best guess? They're either truly dedicated satirists, gone off the metamodernist deep end into deep post-irony, or they've genuinely decided that modernist Grand Narratives weren't really all that bad (let's just ignore all the atrocities they brought about). After all, far-left modernist narratives aren't at all like those other, far-right modernist narratives! They're different, just like everybody else who is selling a utopia (that's only practically attainable through an authoritarian regime).

Thanks for disambiguating! :)

I see what you did there...

I want a patch. Heck, I'd settle for a sticker.

The only reason why memory might get repurposed is because the demand for AI has collapsed. The bubble that's most likely to burst is a financial bubble, and is unlikely to reduce the demand for AI from users... So I wouldn't count on it.

All I can think of is "but what if it's a vacation to Australia? Or the Bahamas? Or anywhere else that's not Europe?"

Right, forgot about that...