I seem to remember the Iraq-area wars that the US was involved in going on far longer and less of an oil crisis happening this fast.

That would be because even during those wars and conflicts, we didn't have an orange-painted pedophilic retard with delusions of grandeur causing a weekslong blockage of the major shipping lane through which ~35% of the world's crude oil trade flows.

The closest we've seen recently was when the Ever Given got stuck in the Suez during 2021, and even that only lasted for 6 days. Plus, it wasn't as big a deal because less oil was being used worldwide during pandemic countermeasures.

The closest in the past 100 years is when Treasonous Klanbitch Ronny Reagan betrayed the USA and convinced the Iranian Ayatollah to cut off shipping to hurt Carter in the 1980 election, in trade for guns and other military supplies that the Treasonshit Republicans paid out later during Reagan's terms.

Security isn't convenient.

Security isn't easy, but it isn't hard either.

Assume you're' a target (because you are) and make it so that you're hardened. Don't be the easy target. Criminals are lazy.

Instead of fearing AI, use it to secure software and make it better.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Cue the Corrupt MafiAA starting another assault on digital preservation. Sigh.

Honey bees ARE an invasive species in North America. Invasive species are bad, right? /s

Paper mills are truly awful to be around. Necessary, but awful.

I think you really hit the nail on the head. The most successes I have had with LLM code is when it's building on an established foundation, a well-structued database, well-structued MVC set up, or whatever. If you're using a well-documented framework, that's another plus.

If you know enough to guide the AI in the direction you want it to go, you're far more likely to get good results. Heck, I've had good luck with just writing a function prototype and having it fill in the guts. I've had good luck telling it to refactor so-and-so class according to whatever principles. I use it regularly with great success to write elaborate SQL from plain english prompts.

It feels very much like the end of an era. I do not by any means think software development as a job is going away--I'm not even sure jobs will ultimately be lost--but it will never be like it was before, for better or for worse.

I only started using Claude Code a few months ago, and you are absolutely correct about the cli / code-integrated tools.

I had Claude translate a COBOL (esque -- DATABUS) program into a modern language and framework today. The plan phase took about 6 minutes, I made a few edits to the plan, and writing portion took about 4 minutes. I got claude to run some tests comparing outputs, and they were identical. I then myself ran similar tests and got the same results. Pretty neat.

I hate having to tweak the legacy DATABUS code and recompile. The subroutine / goto method of programming is hard to wrap my head around now.

To be fair, Kasparov came back and won in 1999 and earned a 6 game draw in 2003. There was a period where the grandmasters were figuring out weaknesses in the AI play.

I can't say I've followed chess at all recently, but my impression is that humans are no longer competitive.

Now do Go.

30 years ago Go was considered almost an almost impossible problem for an AI program to compete at even a high amateur level.
20 years ago Go programs started being able to beat strong amateurs / weak professionals
10 years ago AlphaGo decisively beat the best Go players

We're in a situation where improvements in the performance of AI system are linked to both more advanced techniques and massive increases in compute power. I don't see either one stopping any time soon.

Progress can be scary.

Is that all AI's fault? I also don't know how bad the job market for beginning coders is!

I graduated from undergrad a bit more than 20 years ago with a computer science degree. At the time there were less than 100 majors per year. This was roughly 4-6% of the student body. Comp sci was well behind economics, public policy, biology, political science, and maybe some others in terms of popularity.

Starting in the 2010s, the number of computer science majors started to grow very rapidly. In 2024 there were almost 500 majors! Almost 1/3 of the entire student body was a computer science major.

This is a national university that historically was not especially a "tech" school. I thought the quality of computer science students in the early 2000s was not especially high. I was the only person in my introductory 80+ people required class who had any experience in asm. I was able to take a couple of grad level classes, and my experience there was that most of the students were H1Bs (or related) who were simply there for more credentializiation. Many undergrad students talked about they just wanted to get their degree and then move straight into management. Yuck. (This is all one of the reasons my primary career today is not as a developer!)

In any case, it seems absolutely insane to me that my school is spitting out that many majors. I'll be curious to see the 2025 and 2026 numbers...

The women he walked in on, who WERE UNDERAGE TEENS AT THE TIME, remember him doing it.

iOS has that marketshare now because countries other than the USA (in the Asian zone and Eurozone) caught Apple doing monopolistic things and acted to stop it early.

Wait. You say Microsoft is doing the same thing they've done a dozen times before, again? I'm shocked, I say. Shocked.

........ well, not that shocked.

Yeah, the privacy aspect of EFF doesn't align with social media in general IMHO.

Are they trying to "earn" some $ from social media? That's a silly goal, but might be a nice side benefit.