This is nonsense "Whenever companies are more productive, they hire more people". I can tell you from personal experience, I have seen massive layoffs at companies with skyrocketing profits and high output. Companies hire when they NEED people, that's it. And if AI replaced the need, then it replaces the people.

That isn't how the law works. And that is why every lawsuit so far has failed miserably. AI isn't reproducing the works word for word, it is learning patterns from them, and making up it's own words from all the texts combined. It isn't copywrite violation for me to read everything on a topic, and write my own book in my own words. I don't even need to cite sources unless I copy word-for-word or use a single source of that rare fact/theory/data - and AI will already cite those where needed. Citing isn't violating copywrite either. All that aside ... good luck hiring school-funded lawyers to fight in court against Google and Microsoft and IBM and OpenAI and Meta. Let us know how that works out. :)

I disagree with this "almost all business-specific problems are unknown to outsiders." ... from 40+ years as a professional developer, I can tell you 99% of coding is the same problems solved over and over again. There is very little new about what a business needs to do with software. If anything.

Correction... 99% of Texan drivers in Austin. Big difference.

I say this as someone likely on the spectrum but undiagnosed ... piss off with the self-identification garbage. This isn't your sexual preference on a Tuesday after a few drinks. It is neurological function and cognitive abilities and should be determined by an expert. What next, percentage of people self-identifying as geniuses.

I agree with him in principle, but this is also a very odd approach to problem solving. He is ignoring other solutions to the identified problems. If the issues he is calling out could be caught by AI-driven lint use, is there really a problem to solve that justifies the additional problems of mixed language use?

There are a few things in that article that are a little overblown.

You can't blame developers for using the language in different ways when it has been designed by a committee for decades to give developers the most bloated and convoluted ways to do everything. It is a terrible and inconsistent language with terrible libraries that should be allowed to die.

I used to think this was stupid, but seeing what 12 year old's can access now online and the bullshit that is available to them before their brains are ready for it, I don't care if it only blocks 10% of them, it is still worth doing.

Not sure if you live next to the shops, but my car would be on the road far more without Amazon.

Who uses WordPress who doesn't know it is riddled with plug-in exploits. I mean come on ... this is like complaining your Tesla was expensive to repair.

What a load of nonsense. You can't use probability to predict something happening that has only ever happened ONCE (abiogenesis) that we know of. That isn't how statistics work. And you can't just throw "universe is really big" at the problem either. There have been TRILLIONS of organic chemicals bouncing around Earth for 4 billion years and those never because alive before or after that one life-starting event, so sheer numbers obviously don't matter. It is just insanity to use probability, we don't have enough information. You may as well try to create a theory for how many universes have ever been created.

Tesla's already do this when deciding whether to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid an accident.

NASA needs to shut-up with the continual "life on mars" bullshit until they actually find life. There needs to be a budget window once a year where they get to talk about it.

This is only true on very simple projects. Once you have dependencies on other packages and SDKs, Java is terrible to maintain. Microsoft has to publish a table telling people exactly what version of Spring and Java they can use with what version of the Azure SDK,and likewise other third party libraries may not work with the same version of Spring or Java you need to get a certain feature ... it is a cluster-fuck. And then there is security patching, OMG,