Is it? I have no idea, but I do know it saves me a ton of time. Glance through and fix is what I usually do. It works "good enough" to save time overall. Most of the time, at least for me, the code compiles. I seriously think all employers and colleges need to mandate students incorporate AI into their workflow. AI will only keep improving, and the people who know how to use it will be the most productive. I pretty much use AI for everything, from writing reference letters, to research, and coding. Used to be when someone asks a dumb question or makes a speculation I would say "did you google it?" .. now it's did you ask the AI for help or detailed instructions on that? Mind you, I've caught AI blatantly lying/hallucinating more than a few times .. but those lies are always easy to spot for me because it's usually suspicious. For example, earlier today it recommended a microcontroller without adequate data pins for what I needed it to do (even though I specified what I needed it for).. but when I asked "are you sure it has enough data pins?", it figured out it was lying and corrected itself -- which is a good sign --it had the data to know it was wrong but hadn't adequately fact checked itself. Yeah, so it makes subtle mistakes .. but instead of saying "fuck AI" and not using it .. I keep using it because it's only like the first couple of years of AI .. it will keep improving especially with feedback and better reasoning and self fact-checking. It will only get better and now is the time to incorporate the habit of using it instead of being the grandpa who can't program a VCR or (for you young 'uns) use a smartphone when the age for that comes.

You’ve created a distinction where none exists. It doesn’t matter if the vehicle is privately or publicly owned: it’s either safer or it isn’t, but it’s on the same road regardless.

Tiktok prompted people to do that? You have evidence of that? Btw, have you ever tried to take a kid's phone away? How do they act?

Your brain doesn't auto filter out grammatical errors?

There's more CCP and communist/anti-USA propaganda on all other platforms than on TikTok. TikTok is mostly15 second videos of people dancing.

You’re moving the goalposts from this being about safety to it being about accountability, but neither of those are concerns in practice.

For accountability, there are obvious paths for dealing with it, the most obvious of which is that manufacturers are liable for their products’ features and functionality while operators are liable for the vehicle’s maintenance. And the fact that no one gets arrested for a product safety issue is a feature of our system, not a bug, because jail time is an option of last resort, not the thing you should immediately jump to on a whim. We already have effective means for holding these companies accountable. Between regulation and civil suits, we’ve seen auto manufacturers held accountable for their misdeeds, forced to pay restitution, and compelled to adjust their behavior. And we still see criminal charges and jail time when businesses engage in egregious behavior (e.g. that pharma guy who jacked up prices).

We don’t need to be throwing people in jail every time there’s an accident if we want to hold these companies accountable. We already have the means to do so.

So if the technology is demonstrably safer than 99% of drivers and results in a comparable reduction in deaths, you’d still be opposed to it?

The roads aren’t filled with professional drivers who have years of experience. Remember: half the drivers on the road are below average, but even the top half isn’t that great either. People are already killing people in car accidents in massive quantities every year. That’s what this technology needs to do better than. It needs to be safer than what we have today, not perfectly safe.

Hence why they're discontinuing it. My guess is it was being used in appliances or devices that were designed in the 1980s that were "good enough" and didn't need a redesign.

But now there's better alternatives for both cost and lower power consumption. STM32 for example, the cheapest of which goes for less than 25 cents?

Purely an act of hysteria. We should act on evidence, not prejudice.

"after years of watching autonomous cars hamper emergency response efforts in California and outright kill a pedestrian in Arizona."

So one death, basically .. that happened years ago.. because Uber blatantly ignored obvious safety issues. I guess humans killing people is no big deal? Is there any point to killing this technology so early? It's probably already a lot safer than a human driver and will only get safer. It's dumb to ban things based on an event that happened 5 or 6 years ago. Airplanes had dismal safety at one time, but now they're super safe. Same thing with cars too, actually. Now why would they ban autonomous driving without even giving it a chance to be developed?

They've almost achieved it. They've made propulsion-less propellant .. so now all they have got to do is figure out how to swap the propellant for propulsion and vice versa and they're in business.

OK .. how about publishing in a peer reviewed journal. They even accept totally faked results these days (see below references), so why not this?
Top science journals accepting fake results:
https://www.vice.com/en/articl...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/...
https://www.chemistryworld.com...

"All I can say is that the race to the bottom to cut salaries on IT workers can't end in anything good." But the fact that India got expensive means the economy there improved, probably thanks to outsourcing. Isn't that a good end result, workers so rich and full of options such that they won't work for peanuts?

So if the cpu sux so bad it doesn't have a hardware AV1 decoder .. how many frames per second can we expect from it trying to play back an AV1. Sorry, I mean seconds per frame not frames per second.