People do resist change, and the pace of change is strong.

We're entering an era of sort-of works AI code, shitty AI code, some that is quite good and works until something breaks, a minor amount that can withstand the change of tech and especially other AI coding trends, and a parallel universe of humans coding along side these changes.

We went from machine code to primitive if highly capable languages to C to Java to Py to Go, and most languages are improvements on and compared to basic languages. All will continue to evolve.

There are still dial-up people, and some with 10gig to their desktop at home. In the middle of the bell curve, many are just trying to get by.

Already, the advanced world is starting to reject fridges with browsers, the morass of center-console touch screen drive-time options, and Reboot #6 of their favorite CGI superhero canon, not to mention fried gaming environments.

AI is stuck on what we did, not what we can do. Learn what "can do" means, and reject the premise of the captioned OP. This person leads a flock of lemmings from a cliff because the fundamentals win, just like you can't change physics.

The AI adherents that stand as lemmings prove Darwin. Again.

This is statism, writ large.

You get paid for work you PERFORM, but not work you RECORD. Copyright is anti-individual rights and liberties.

I'll be glad when Ai truly replaces all of these artists.

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

Not really.

"Stifling Innovation" is a dog whistle for "Stifles Shareholder Return".

Google is the progenitor of the panopticon, and its current leader is Palantir, who wants you, and everything about you, so that you can be manipulated and sold.

The EU has actual cojones to take on Google where the current extreme laissez faire 47 Gov tries to suck every puddle of cash available from crypto to Bibles to phones.

The answer is to stop being the product. EU thinking understands this. The rest of us are for sale. Hope you like your new master.

Many IT management folks need a third party consultant to ally their thinking, or even to point to when that allied thinking goes into a ditch at high speed.

Herd thinking still motivates decisions. This hits the wall of Not Invented Here decision making, requiring Nodding Heads to acknowledge the obvious and native awesome thinking (/snark) that IT management does on a day to day basis.

Circle jerking will continue, as it always has. AI is just today's trend and money burn. The name might change, the country to dodge taxes, but the game has been played for millennia.

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

I know. My dream come true. I can sleep better tonight. It's worried me and driven me to drugs and quite dubious but unmentionable activities.

I've been begging for this for decades. I say prayers in church. I have eleven stickers on the back of my pickup truck hoping for this very thing. My life is complete.

And... hey, nothing else is interesting, amirite? No wars, nukes, and the grid is full of solar juice, right? Feeding us our daily bread of AI?

VCs will cash in on this. Wow. I can't wait for the IPO.

The reformulated Descovy is better than Truvada. DoxyPEP is also a great idea. My observation is that a combo of whatever works, statistically steepens the trajectory of infection and eventual mitigation/riddance.

The crisis could have an end; we agree that cutting science investigation costs more money, but also importantly quality of live over the long term.

And as a prophylactic, taking Truvada/Descovy doesn't have to be taken for life, rather, for as long as the risk is there in behavior and sex contact where partner status is unknown. For the promiscuous, that might be lifelong, but others age-out of a risky sexual contact profile, or cease for other reasons.

We totally agree these are worthwhile programs.

As this relates to the OP, it's still a breakthrough. I'm not interested in making Gilead rich, I'm interested in whatever mitigation strategy works.

Sadly, many people will not use condoms for whatever reasons. If we are an empathetic world, those that can mitigate HIV through whatever strategies are available, are obliged to do so. This is my entire point. Post-infection strategies are as important as prevention.

You're a lucky man in a privileged country.

No excuse?

You have to face reality. Your sense of propriety is not the sense of others, for better and worse.

You can yell at the sky for those rain drops to go back to the clouds of their origin, but it's not going to happen.

Face that. It is real. That's why this breakthrough is so important. The closer we get to statistical protection, the more the curve flattens. The fact that the curve flattens flies in the face of your sense of morality or of mine. It really flattens it. That's the entire point.

Neither you or I can change the herd's way of behavior. But we can lead the herd to better outcomes.

In many places, it is indeed criminal to intentionally expose people to HIV. Problem is, few get tested. Outbreaks, especially with shared needles as an infection vector, happen somewhat frequently.

It's not ignorance, it's sloth and poverty, shame in finding public health clinics or telling a PCP.

There are people that also have (a lot) of casual sex. Or their partner secretly does, infecting them.

Education about partner protection does indeed help right now, but now all will learn the lesson, get motivated, or overcome their fear of admitting the nature of their sex life.

For this reason, the MIT breakthrough offers a lifeline against a disease that is silent, until symptomatic. When it becomes symptomatic, it's already done damage. Becoming poz is unlikely the death sentence it was a decade go, but it's a stigma even if undetectable. At the poz stage, it can't be cleared except under very rare circumstances.

Society does not at this time, tie people down and make them take their meds-- unless they're incarcerated and even then, it's tough. Sex drive is huge. So is drug dependency; you'll get rid of neither.

This breakthrough allows hope. It apologizes for being human, and having a sex drive. Shared needle behavior? No one wants to touch the subject of addiction. Just like they don't want to find ways to herd the unhoused, one individual at a time, back into a functional civil state.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.