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Comment Re:Are they making a profit yet??? (Score 1) 55

Google Search has been declining for a very long time.

This is a common perception among techies, but is not true. Google search usage and profitability has been rising steadily. It's actually still rising, though LLM usage is slowing it. I'm not sure whether the numbers I saw were public, so I won't cite them. If you'd like to verify, I suggesting looking at the annual reports.

Comment Re:Sounds like a replay of the furor over VBA (Score 1) 64

Then add Azure getting hacked and being massively insecure, several times now. Add that many people are looking into leaving o365 because MS blocked a user for political reasons.

MS is done for. They just will take quite a while dying. But there is no realistic chance they can turn things around anymore.

Comment Re:Traditional lectures are obsolete (Score 3, Insightful) 39

What nonsense. First, the most important part in teaching is to select the materials and structure them in a way that makes sense. Second is the actual teaching and anybody halfway competent does far more than just reading the slides. It is about demonstrating you know your stuff, the materials are worthwhile working through, you respect the time of the participants and any good lecture will also need a real entertainment factor.

I think you have never designed and then held a lecture. And if you ever have heard lectures, apparently they were not any good.

Comment Re:AI is terrible. (Score 3, Interesting) 39

Indeed. As an example, I currently have a student looking at all the major AIs (including coding ones with paid subscriptions) for code security review. With small, well known samples they are good. With larger samples, they are >50% fail. With CVEs (the things that matter) they are so far almost 100% fail.

Add that using AI coding assistants makes you about 20% slower, and the only thing AI could be called for this application is "completely unsuitable".

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