I'd say its absolutely useless for that job. SO you have something you don't know how to do, and don't know how to evaluate, and you have a program that sometimes kind of can do things, but its trained on random data with no actual understanding of what it's doing, and you're trusting it to work? I'll take the result of a google search over that any day of the week. At least then I'll get several options and can compare them to see what feels right. About the only people who could use this are so technically clueless that they can't od the job anyway, and trusting the AI is rolling the dice with a random answer that may or may not work. Or have massive security holes. Or even remotely solve the problem. At current level it's at best a mediocre replacement for a google search, and it won't be much better in our lifetimes.

Not really, it just kicks the problem out a level. There's a similar mechanism on Android. It's probably in the top 5 things new developers don't understand and need to be taught in detail. It's doable, if the devs writing the program understand and correctly use the system, but it's not free or anywhere near a solved problem.

No need for the /s there. Google has been hyping Fuschia for almost a decade, dropping lots of hints that it will eventually replace Android (or Android will move from Linux to Fuschia as its base) and it's yet to actually do anything. It will be killed as a project eventually, there's just nothing of value there.

A lot of startups are, but that's probably because they never had an office to begin with. Having recently job searched, I found 3 public tech companies hiring fully remote- Square, Shopify, and Pintrest. And at least one of those is now in a hiring freeze.

Interesting new grad/experiences breakdown there. Yeah, I've wondered since the start of the pandemic how the hell you train up new grads. I know if you dropped me in a fully remote environment back when I was 21, I would have failed completely. I don't think it's necessary for hiring an experienced engineer, but I can definitely see it making things easier when onboarding. I would have killed for someone in the next desk to ask a couple questions to without the delays and awkwardness of slack conversations.

That only works if the remote jobs are still out there. If the companies are moving to hybrid or in office, you can search all you want and not find enough remote jobs to absorb all those people. Having recently done a job search, I found 1 public company that was hiring fully remote. The rest were in office or hybrid. Startups were hiring remote, but that means taking a 6 figure paycut and betting on their stock being worth something some day. Some people will take that, but not many.

That's not something that works in real life. Its not that easy to relocate a physical business, it takes time and money. There also needs to be a critical mass of customers. In a business district, you may have 100K+ people within a mile as a possible customer base. If you move that to a single location elsewhere, you've now decreased your customer base by 80% due to lower density, lost most of your delivery business because the distances no longer make sense, have no reputation in the area so no established customers, and are competing with the much cheaper and easier option of eating at home. It's a change that the market can adapt to, but it will take a decade and many, many businesses will fail or close in doing so (a multiple of the normal failure rate).

Are you going off guy feeling here or have you actually looked at numbers? Because the official numbers for every major US city is showing increasing occupancy rates. Well below pre-pandemic numbers, but well over 2021 and it's been increasing all year. Similar statistics for public transit use- well below pre-pandemic, but increasing especially during rush hours. The return is slowly happening.

Have you tried job hunting recently? I have. Startups are mostly remote, but just about every established company is looking for hybrid. The momentum is absolutely shifting away from fully remote.

Except the algorithms for the ML itself can do absolutely nothing, without the data. They can do different things if based on different data. What they do can't be determined without knowing the data (and in some cases, the order in which the data was applied). The algorithms are absolutely unimportant- it's all about the data. And calling it "algorithms" is both trivial (anything in a computer is an algorithm by the mathematical definition) and incredibly misleading. You tell people you wrote an algorithm to do X, it makes people think you learned how to do X and wrote it down as a series of steps and decisions. That's not what AI is even remotely. There's no understanding of what's being done or why, and no ability to check or debug the behavior.

It's not semantics. There are no algorithms involved really. Nobody is adding logic like "if(camera_sees_object()) then break_hard()" The entire point of AI and machine learning is NOT to write those kinds of algorithms, because the complexity is such that it can't be done. Instead, its all pattern matching. That's what machine learning is.

It's not all algorithms. It's all data. AI is really just studying lots of data looking for patterns and hoping that if it find a pattern in the "good" data, that following that pattern will get a "good" result. What this means is that they don't have enough data about collisions with objects for their algorithm to detect it should stay stopped, or that the data they do that says "nothing detected hit the gas" is strong enough to override it.

I mean, being someone that rolls their own crypto is itself a red flag. It mean's they're an idiot. The major libraries are written by people who fully understand the math, have extensive experience in security, and have lots of eyes on them for peer review. They know how attackers will approach things and how creative they can be (for example, its possible to partially crack some algorithms if you don't carefully write both the if and else branches of the encryption to take the same number of cycles, by measuring how long it takes the algorithm to run).

Someone rolling their own is not going to have that peer reiview, and is not going to be write it correctly the first time. Anyone rolling their own crypto in unqualified to work in security, with the sole exception of people doing academic level research into new algorithms (which shouldn't be used in any production code until its been evaluated to hell and back).

I have never once, in 23 years of programming heard a programmer talk about getting a cert, brag about a cert, or seen a cert hilighted on a resume. I have never known any programmer looking to get a new job or promotion talk about taking a certification class. These are things sysadmins or IT personnel used to care about (any possibly still do), but programmers never did.

There's only one cert that matters for a programmer- a degree in CS or a related field (software engineering, computer engineering, math, physics, etc). And that matters for maybe the first 4 years of your career- less if your first job is at a major company. After that it's your experience that will open doors. And the bachelor's matters more than any advanced degree, unless you're entering a really specialty subfield.

In fact I'd say a cert makes you less attractive as a hire. It means that you thought the best thing you could do to get a new job was to pay to take a test, when instead you could have spent the same amount of time writing code. It puts a question mark on your judgement at the very least.

The previous show was on basic cable, at a time when streaming didn't exist, and when it was just being born. This one is on a C list streaming network (and C list might be charitable) in a world of greater fragmentation of the viewer base than any previous time in history. And it now has to compete with short form video as well. Yeah, it was never going to come in the same ballpark as The Daily Show did, and anyone who thought it would is a fool.

The one doesn't mean the other isn't true. You can have multiple videos in different stages coming together at different speeds. One can be being shot, another edited, another researched, another being script written, etc.