But we ship out our electronics to be landfilled in other countries.

"When we need medical care, we expect decisions about our treatment to be made by our doctors, not a tech company's algorithm,"

Yeah, that's the expectation of people who are new. They haven't seen an insurance company or Medicaid (or Medicare) deny treatment, or seen an employee at the SSA with no medical training deny an application for disability.

Competent people have a look what the network can take in addition to what it carries, then shape a new thing down well below that. And make sure they can turn it off fast. Sounds a like nobody even checked. Amateurs.

I have seen this extreme level of stupidity only with IBM tech consultants before. They killed the network of a large bank were I also transferred monitoring data, pretty much the same as they did. The difference is my first question was how much data and my second how much bandwidth can I safely use. And the bank had all that very nicely. The IBM morons just built software and then pushed everything on the net and were surprised when that did not work. Fortunately the bank got their crap killed in half an hour or so. And then these idiots asked me where I got my traffic figures. 2 years into their project. Sounds like something like that happened here as well. Just with a teensy bit more damage.

Okay, but you could have wrapped it with "atomic operation" tags.

But I was going for Funny.

Serendipitous public conference on AI yesterday. Large numbers of participants, but it turned out that at least some of them were there for the free lunch that I hadn't even heard about. I went mostly because of my business connections to the main sponsor.

The technical talks were mostly disappointing. Best of them was probably a Googler saying stuff that was mostly conclusions I got to a while back... At least that was how it seemed. (And then things got a little weird...)

So my main conclusion was tangential. Of course. Huge building was quite dazzling. And obviously based on borrowed money and stockholders' expectations of huge future profits. I thought the corporate headquarters was a different huge building that I visited a few months ago, but it's evidently it's a much bigger bubble than I had noticed.

Oh, yeah. Back to the story. Latest news I heard was that it was a new meta-tool, new and improved with AI, that was overwhelmed by the sordid real world. I hope it at least went down with some funny new error message like "I'm sorry, mother."

There's a time-limit problem. You couldn't do that in a day, probably not in a week. And even the best method couldn't be guaranteed to work in any particular year. You need the average over several years.

How much of the code you wrote can you interpret 2 years later?
(Well, with enough work I can usually figure out what I was doing, but I tend to document things. And sometimes even so I can't, because of lost context.)

That's going to be true at the lower levels, but it will be awhile before the upper skill levels are obsolete. Rembrandt isn't famous because he used his oils with more expertise.

Still, most folks are satisfied with a much more common skill level, and that WILL be commoditized.

Well, that's not true, but it sure isn't the same skill. Writing a short story is a particular skill. Plotting out a game is a skill. It's just not the same skill as programming the game.

For that matter, I was trying to plot out a game, and hit a wall. I could write the code, but I wanted a dungeon quest like game that I would find entertaining and which wasn't built around fighting. I couldn't figure out how the economics and interactions should work without an entire AI handling the NPCs. (And I didn't want it to depend on an internet connection.)
(Well, I wasn't trying to do this the easy way. I was intentionally going to build my own maze routine, to produce mazes that I found esthetically appealing...but economic interactions is what I got stuck on. It's a different skill than programming.)

Short term, might be possible.

Medium term, not possible yet because the machines will break down and they aren't designed to be maintained by other machines.

Long term, possible but complex without at least having humans do inspections.

It will continue to be valuable, probably even more valuable, but there will be LOTS fewer jobs. There are still assembly language programmers...but not that many. I've even forgotten the name for the skill that is below assembly language, but there are still folks who do that...but only a VERY few.

So far. No bets for next year.

If they know about it and don't do anything to stop it, then they share liability. They can both be sued.

CBS reports that:

an L3Harris contractor was working in a remote FAA location and switching old copper wire to fiber while replacing a router. The router that was being switched then started flooding other routers, overloading the system. There were 1,000 attempts to log on every four to five seconds, he said.

The network DDoS'ed itself.

If the system is designed so that a couple of routers in one spot can make it necessary to ground everything, the design is bad. Saying they need $50B stat is wild when it clearly wasn't done right the first time with however much was spent so far.

Musk has since said the booster was low on fuel.