... but this is a situation where I'd sue the living shit out of everyone involved. Sadly, it's about the only way to have an impact on the policies.

So they've rebranded as CodeAI now? The 'everybody should code' non-profit (cough) now supports the very technology that's putting people (including SWEs) out of work? They are just another 'ed-tech' grift, the content they provided to educators was just cutesy, very shallow, useless fluff. I never understood how they got the attention or traction they did, well, actually, it's probably about the money and their backers, not their actual educational value. There's also a lot of legit criticism that code.org was just about producing more programmers to push down wages for their backer tech bro buddies.

If your kids are at a school who lean on Code.org/CodeAI it's because they don't have any real CS teachers, just untrained schmucks who got 'stuck' teaching CS and are looking for easy, canned 'lessons'.

I actually took the time to read through the legal PDF, it's interesting to see in their minutes/notes, there's very little about finding legit arguments, research, etc. to counter Haidt's points - it's just all about 'messaging', PR, image, and plan for discrediting him, typical corporate behavior. While I don't think those of us in slashdot crowd have any love for Meta, for others who may think Facebook is just a harmless distraction, the minutes are pretty revealing when it comes to their culture/mindset. Hint: they care only about money and numbers (shocking I know!!!)

The book, while generally well received, has its share of critics regarding some of his assumptions/conclusions. I have not read it, but know it's been referenced a lot in education and academia. They could have probably actually tried to debate the book, but decided of course to take the low, and dirty, road.

I deleted my account years ago after the 2012 hack, their security was and (probably still is) shit; couldn't even salt their passwords. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I look at it from time to time, as much as I can see as a guest, and holy shit it's become just a big circle jerk, people posting self-congratulatory tripe and 'deep thoughts' [sic], thinking they are original and insightful, and so much of it looks like AI or people just stealing and pasting shit from elsewhere.

I'm sure some people still use it for finding jobs, I've only ever found mine from direct references/referrals from people I know and places I've worked. Even when I still had an account, it was annoying how many recruiters would contact me with listings that often had no relation at all to my experience and skills.

This kind of automation ultimately causes problems for 'regular' every day consumers and gets hijacked by a smaller group of assholes; plus the technology isn't mature enough to be trusted. So what happens when an agent runs amok, buys a too many of x, and the user says 'wait! I didn't want 100, I want to you to eat the cost of me returning it, and company y says, too fucking bad you bought it' -- who's liable? (my answer is the dumbass with the agent, but who knows how it will pan out)

Only a few years ago some of the kind of stuffs agents do (or at least have access to) we'd call a virus or malware, how things change.

Nova Learning surveyed 463 students in 2025 and 677 students in 2026.

So at a standard 95% confidence level, a sample size of n = 463 carries a margin of error of roughly of + or - 4.55%. A sample size of n = 677 narrows that margin to about + or - 3.77%. While some of the changes are outside of this range, many are not.

I also wonder who they asked " sample consists primarily of middle and high school students from the U.S. West Coast " So Bay Area, LA, Seattle? wealthy kids, middle class? private school, public?

I dunno, the numbers are interesting but I think a larger study with more distribution might be more helpful.

Apples and oranges, generated drama and clickbait. Move along..

I was thinking the same, they play with numbers so that the unemployment rate looks better than it is, discouraged workers, those who haven't looked in the last 4 weeks (which could for a variety of reasons, illness, family issues, taking time to retrain, transportation problems, etc.), or a parent who has to stay home because childcare is insanely expensive and they'd spend more on it than they'd make (yes, it actually can happen). And people giving up looking for working or just retiring a bit early because their career it shot (I'm thinking AI replaced jobs) isn't a good thing.

Also, there's the issues of being underemployed, or taking jobs at a lower wage than they would normally, etc. So while they may be 'employed' their situation has degraded compared to the past.

This seems to be the de facto way companies are operating now, my only hope if enough people just say no thanks (or f*ck off ! more appropriately) that they will back off, but I'm not optimistic. Doctorow's book actually does a really nice job using case studies to outline how the path the enshitification process happens, Facebook / Meta is pretty much the poster child for it.

Anything with software now, be it a dishwasher, a car, a watch, these asshole companies are either using your data for their benefit, or charging you to access features that should simply be included (or in some case are actually already there but turned off unless you fork over $x per month).

that us Gen X'ers played as kids, only more expensive, with higher stakes and when it goes all wrong -- instead of us all laughing like we did as kids, you lose clients, or people get fired, or someones loses money, etc.

All of these massive LLM companies were built on stealing copyrighted materials and other prior work to train their models (and then profit from it without paying for the data/images/etc), so the whole thing is hilariously thick with irony. "Hey, you can't steal the sh*t I stole!"

Now where did I put that teeny tiny violin...

I watched the trailer, sure the visuals looks 'nice', but I wasn't blown away. The AI component is problematic imo.

Maybe it was the way to trailer was put together but it feels like it's very a much a scripted, on the rails experience, which doesn't really interest me. Though it seems a lot of high budget 'pretty' action games are this way now.

I thought the YouTube comments were interesting, they felt AI to me, every one a positive one liner, really? Thought it's the official TombRaider channel, so heavily censored and curated I'm sure. If you look at other comment sources, it's far from pure glazing...

Probably trying to earn some brownie points after forcing Fitbit users to their much hated & maligned Google Health app, with no option to keep the original app.

https://www.droid-life.com/202...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...
https://www.androidauthority.c...
https://kotaku.com/google-fitb...

I used their CPX (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3333) in some introductory programming/electronics classes at my school. They're a cool company in my experience, run by nerds, affordable, and big supporters of education & teachers.

I've never heard of Flux.ai, but they can Flux off if they're messing with Adafruit...