The Meta Quest 3 VR headset is selling quite well: https://www.roadtovr.com/quest...

The AVP is just way overpriced and doesn't have the app ecosystem to make it interesting enough.

No no, developers can also become support desk employees dealing with entitled angry customers! What a glorious future! And such an incredibly futureproof career move!

Environmentalism was never really on the table for corporations. Plenty of people are talking about the environmental impact of AI. What you seem to be realizing is that corporations don't give a fuck about society and will gladly fuck it over if they can get away with it and make more profit.

ChatGPT is only 3 years old. Your numbers and tone are incredibly overconfident.

Your narrative is also wrong. Many jobs have already been killed in essence: Translators, voice actors, all kinds of artists. Maybe not the exceptional ones, but certainly the mediocre ones. Tell those people that it's all hype and that they don't have to protest anything or find an entirely new career.

Plenty of other jobs are very, very close to being so, including the ones you've mentioned. A lot of support jobs like in call centers are 100% going byebye. Boston Dynamics robots are already replacing workers in Amazon warehouses and between the dexterity and agility improvements Unitree and Figure are showing and the high level autonomy in planning and execution Google's robotics department is showing, your 25-50 years is ridiculously pessimistic.

Again, ChatGPT is only 3 years old. Hype, my asshole.

It does seem like a good use case for AI coding agents: No new functionality has to be added, so the existing application and the existing code can be used as validation for an optimized version. The biggest challenge would be to let it retain or improve maintainability and security of the project.

"AI companies" were never the people to hype "vibe coding" as a serious software engineering approach. The people doing that were bloggers, Youtubers, and other people not very knowledgeable about software engineering making money off the new hip trend.

Remember that the term "vibe coding" was thought up by Karpathy: very smart guy, but not primarily a software engineer by his own admission. And even then he never claimed more than that vibe coding was great for hobbyists working on small projects.

What is your opinion on AI research assistants (operating more or less autonomously)?

Things seem to be moving quite hard in that direction, especially at Google and OpenAI. The growth of agentic software engineering and especially the procedures developed in 2025 that mitigate the hallucinations of LLMs and allow productive longer autonomous runs seem to be very applicable to research assistants.

They booked the ride via some app/interface and the customer is surrounded by screens and speakers during the entire ride.

"Thank you for riding with Waymo. Remember to fully close the doors after exiting the vehicle or we will charge you USD 100."
"*ping* One of the doors of your Waymo ride isn't fully closed. Please return to the vehicle and close it or we will charge you USD 100."
Seems pretty easy.

I do agree that preventing the issue is even better.

Progressive corporate tax would be a great way to disincentivize monopolies/oligopolies and balance the power of small businesses and large corporations without having to judge every merger or potential abuse of position individually (as the current anti-trust setup does).

Only in the case of low elasticity in the demand. Companies can't always simply raise prices. Some possible alternative effects of higher taxes: smaller profit margins, cost cutting/higher efficiency, less R&D investment, lower dividend payments, bankruptcy.

So no, the end consumer definitely doesn't necessarily 'pay the tax'.

Some kid making some shitty video depicting fake shit and posting it online is not the problem, even if said kid is presenting it as true.
None of that is illegal in any way, nor should it be.

The real problem is people taking such fake shit seriously. There is absolutely no way to block the dissemination of such fake shit reliably, nor should we try. We should deal with the vulnerabilities as close to the source of the problem as possible: help kids and adults to find out the truth. Things like the "@grok, is this true?"-feature (as much as you may hate Grok/Musk) are going to be far more effective than trying to play and constantly lose the game of whack-a-mole on the producer side.

Hear, hear. Even with all its warts, the EU really is the only institution effectively protecting us and the world against shit like this and I am thankful for that.

Those last two are the same thing.

1. Debit cards are commonly Maestro (Mastercard) or Visapay (Visa). Besides the kickback they take, they're also US companies and we really don't like or trust those guys anymore.
2. Try using EUR in far away countries. You will pay out of your ass in fees for payments, ATM use, etc. New players like Revolut have slightly better offerings, but it's still only something like 200 EUR a month free, after which you pay a 2% withdrawal fee. Stablecoins don't give a fuck about borders. Having said that: ATM use for a stablecoin is going to be a no go anyway.

Maybe, but more probably an enormous amount of (male) usage has shifted to interaction with AI assistants via other routes. I hardly use the web interface anymore. Everything happens through applications (such as Cursor).