But can you measure it by counting the number of "Please" and "Thank you"? Like every benchmark, this one is so simplistic, it is easy to game, and people, when they are in a bad mood, will just murmur "please, please, please" all the time. And for me, formal manners of people serving me food is very far down on the priority list. Cleanliness would rank much higher, and the highest rank is serving what I actually ordered. I take a perfectly prepared burger from a disgruntled worker every time compared to having some sad, soddy piece of foodscaps served with the most winning smile. (But on the other hand, I don't eat at a burger joint that often anyway.)

And I wonder how you somehow managed to get DEI into this debate. There seems to be an itch with you in the need of scratching. I hope you can keep your fleas at your side.

EOM

"And we don't have one. Or a Hitler"
Yet

This is not how it works. If you want public healthcare, you have to pay for it. A share of your retirement funds will float each month to the various health care systems. It's just that it is much cheaper than in the U.S., and usually, you can't opt out, except you can prove you have enough regular income to pay out of pocket.

Contrary to popular opinion, politicians in general try to get through with the agenda they presented as their election platform. There are many ways to fail, but in general, it's not because of the lack of trying.

It's hilarious hearing "TDS" from the people who still whine about FDR, Carter, Clinton, Obama and think Soros is the micromanaging mastermind behind everything they despise

... any external access. Annoying to quickly get results, but generally regarded as "secure by default". This entails that any decision about access has to be deliberately made by the programmer. The progger can still screw up, but then it's his/her fault, not the fault of the software used.

No need for all this Next.js cruft to patch up Nodes shortcomings. Deno is the official successor to Node and has been around for quite long already. Secure by default, native TypeScript (no transpiling needed), Browser API fully supported, no context switching required or SSR stunts required ... etc. I'm using Deno in my Jamstack stuff exclusively. Working with Node stuff feels like a throughback to PHP 3 now.

Looking through thousands of codefiles and detecting errors and antipatterns is one of those things AI has really surprised me with. Especially with FOSS code and APIs it knows really well. Another one of those definite AI game-changers.

Why start in the 1800s? Why not start in 1620, when armed aliens took land? The land grab of 1000 AD resolved itself with some luck in 1030 AD.

Except it really isn't. The stuff from 2 years ago is miles ahead from the stuff 5 years ago. The stuff from 1 years ago is yards ahead of 1 year ago. The stuff from 6 months ago is nearly indistinguishable from the stuff from a year ago. Diminishing returns is hitting hard and rapidly. Many experts think that LLMs are closing in on their technical limitations, regardless of how much extra compute its given. It will need entirely new techniques to actually become much more than it is now. Which may happen, but doesn't appear to be on the horizon.

A study you can't even directly link to? Yeah, I call bullshit.

And my personal experience is it's at least a 50% slow down. I have yet to ever have it do anything not completely trivial that wasn't badly insecure and broken, and when using them to provide static analysis the false positive rate is around 90%.

No, those who aren't willing are actually following the science. Every measurement so far, every actual study has shown AI code generation is 20% or more slower for senior engineers. Even scaleai, a company founded and run by Meta's AI chief, shows the same in their data (https://scale.com/leaderboard/rli). Possibly it will someday get there, but it sure as hell isn't ready yet.

a 10 yr old PC isn't getting updates so is very vulnerable to being hacked

That nicely sums it up.