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.

Is there an alternative that is still as good as pre-2020 Google, or at least better than 2024 Google? I tried many alternatives around 2020 but didn't like the UI or search results of any of them compared to Google, but now I don't like Google Search anymore either so I may reconsider. I just want straight-to-the-point search results without having it trying to outsmart me and flood me with things I didn't search for. What I search for is what I want, nothing else.

He mentions why it looks old on the home page, point number 12.

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.

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When they load you into the trains, Iâ(TM)ll be taking photos to feed my Ai so folks never forget.

Until the next generation of you calls for censorship and forced speech.

Misinformation is free expression, comrade.

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.

The next thing on their TODO list should be to become compatible with Facebook and Instagram again, after giving a broken experience there (scrolling jumping around like crazy) for nearly two years. Yes, I understand that the problem is that Meta has badly written JavaScript code that is broken on Firefox. No, that doesn't matter for end users. I really want to recommend people to use Firefox, but sorry, I can't because of this.

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.