Are there software kill switches in chargers, that cannot be bypassed even if you control the hardware (honest question)? If there is, I get the concern. If not, aren't these basically battery systems drawing power from the grid that an European government owns, and push comes to shove, the local military could take ownership?

Maybe I'm not enough of an AI believer. Maybe we're talking different use cases.

For enterprise software, you may have senior developers in 10 years that can guide AI to fix issues. I still think that the person maintaining it needs to understand the code, in case AI cannot fix it correctly (that's where I'm not enough of an AI believer).

On use case, this Android App thing is not enterprise software. A lot of the vibe coded software we'll see will be designed by a random person, who may or may not let the software die. If it's an app on your phone that's not important, who cares, but in the corporate world I could see random vibe-coded applications being shared and used by hundreds of users, and then the original app owner retires or gets laid off, and then... chaos. It's similar to today's Excel sheets with DBA macros, except more complex.

Idiocy is rampant in corporate America.

Vibecoding and other AI slop will end up creating a mess of unmaintainable software. However, the summary says "the resulting creations, for now, are only meant to be used personally". If the use case is personal apps only, I think it's pretty great. I would never want to download a random vibecoded app from the store though.

My point was that "human capital" is demeaning, but I don't know what a better expression would be, and all the other terms the OP wrote don't work because they mean something specific. Also the comment was "our large company NOW uses a HCM system", and this is not new at all.

We're all in agreement that corporations are sociopathic. Human society goes through a pendulum, it feels like every few hundred years the elites need to be reminded there's a handful of them and billions of us. I hope everyone realizes that soon.

I don't disagree with you that "human capital" is not a great label, but all the other terms you used have specific meanings in HR.

Talent management is about a combination of hiring, training, and retaining employees. People management is what typical middle-managers do, supporting employees in their daily activities and keeping a team operating. "Human capital management" includes both (and more - performance management, compensation, etc.). You could call it "human resources management" maybe, but HCM is what has been used for decades ("SAP HCM" was "SAP HR" back in the 80s, but has been "HCM" since the early 2000s).

I've been part of layoffs before (on the planning and the giving end), and I remember the head of HR said "we want these meetings to be individual and in person, because that's the least we can give to our employees". That stuck with me. Layoffs suck for everyone involved, but at least try to treat your employees like human beings.

Asking your folks not to step into work and firing them by e-mail.. I guess that's the modern way of running HR. I also imagine they'd use your personal e-mail, because as of 4:01am your corporate accesses will be revoked. Cold as fuck.

How the fuck have people forgotten already (actually I know, it's because Trump flooded the zone so much no one can keep track of anything)... There's an export tax on Nvidia chips of 25%, which was discussed late 2025, despite being illegal.

Who knows where that money will go, but I'm assuming it goes into the Trump swamp.

Hoooly shit. I never watch videos but your comment made me want to check.. and that dude is off his meds (or high on something).

Based on that interview alone, I would sell my Gamestop shares if I were a shareholder. Like... How do you get a CEO like that. Wouldn't trust this guy to run a car dealership.

That's the scary part, and it's not talked about enough. AI is helping developers code, but developers are getting worse at coding from scratch because of AI, while juniors never get a chance to find a job because AI can replace them. That's bad enough, but what about new technologies? Who's going to develop new languages, and will AI be able to spit out code using a new syntax? And if not... will there be enough developers left that can build up a codebase in that language for AI to learn? Feels like AI will slow down technological advancement, while improving how we use current tools.

When I read "China’s emissions actually declined in 2025", I interpret that as absolute emissions. They've been slowing their emissions growth for a while now, that's not news.

You didn't reply to me directly, but... that's another excerpt:

You can say China is not serious about pollution, they're cost-first, but... hey whatever their philosophy, the ars technica article seems to indicate there are changes for the better. They may still use a fuckton of coal, but they're also investing in renewables at a pace we haven't seen anyone else do.

While state media and propagandist keep telling us China is evil for so many reasons, they're building robots, cars, their own AI-inference chips, and also more renewable resources than anyone else worldwide. This is an excerpt from the article:

We're witnessing the fall of an empire and the rise of another one in real time.

It's because we're older... I can't help but think of all the downstream impacts and the challenges and .. ugh yeah it makes me tired, so then I don't get excited. But still. Let's forget about all the context around it for a second, and then this becomes really cool. We're building humanoid robots that perform human-like activities! Neat.

Thank you. Almost all the comments so far are "machines > man duh", which... is true. But every time we make machines to be better than humans, we learn something, and we advance science. Deep Blue > Kasparov? At the time that was an achievement. Kids nowadays grow up knowing that they cannot beat a computer at chess if the computer is not handicapped, but that wasn't true back then.

This is cool stuff. It's a big advancement in the technology. It's 100% a nerd thing, on a nerd site. But no. The reactions we get is akin to saying "my horse can go as fast as your steam engine contraption" back in the 1880s. These robots are much better than humanoid robots from last year, nevermind from 5 or 10 years ago. Even if you think it's kind of pointless now, in another 5 years? Our wars will be different, but also maybe food delivery will go to robots along with a lot of other manual labor that is currently not automatable. You can argue that's concerning for the future, and on that I'd agree, but speaking as a nerd, it's still fucking cool.

I disagree with some of your statements (Chinese free healthcare is.. well, not always free), but overall infrastructure is bang on. Infrastructure broadly defined (public services, education, healthcare, power, water, telecom, etc.) is the foundation of a society. The reason so many countries aren't doing well is that they're playing out the tragedy of the commons; no one cares about the societal common good, and everyone is trying to (ab)use public services and goods. Combine that with some corruption and the structure of your country crumbles, which makes the economy crumble.

Historically the western world (European countries, US/Canada, Australia) has been pretty good at working for the common good. However the social fabric is eroding; we celebrate the rich (especially in the US), individuals and companies are maximizing profit over everything else, and the government is complicit. We've combined NIMBYs with greed, so almost nothing gets done for the people if it's expensive or doesn't have consensus.

China is profit-seeking like everyone else, but the government can say screw you to your rights and raze your house if a high-speed train needs to go there. The government is way more controlling, and as much as you can rail against their abuse of rights, some level of corruption, etc., they're fundamentally utilitarian and focus on the development of China as a whole (at the cost of individual freedoms). That philosophy and level of control on the whole country is what's helping them.