The human bottleneck will remain. But we need to get away from the "test and fix" amateur approach we currently use. We need to do "secure by construction and design" instead. It just costs money and requires actually qualified engineers. It is known how to do it though.

So? Lidar plus camera fails a lot less than camera alone. I have no idea why you event try to do FUD here.

Observable evidence from about 40 years of research into this say he is exactly right and that the additional sensors make a huge difference. Your entirely invalid claim is that computer vision can be as good as human vision. No idea where you take that from, but it cannot be actual research, because actual reality is that nobody knows.

There are tons of things computers can do that humans could do first. But what we basically always find is that there is a way to do it without insight, often by brute-forcing things and mixing that with some algorithms (that have no clue what they are doing).

Hence basically most cases where computers replicate human skill, we are pretty sure they do it differently.

You mistake what "safety" means. It just means accident rated below an acceptable threshold. It does not mean perfection at all.

Yes. The expectation is that in Europe, in the not too distant future, human driving will essentially go away because of insurance cost.

Hawaiian eruption last a long time and the lava flows persist for years.

Your effusive eruptions last on average no longer than our effusive eruptions. The fact that Iceland also has phreatic eruptions doesn't change the fact that most of ours are effusive basalt, just like yours, with corresponding eruptive dynamics. Also, FYI, for a given total effusion volume, slow eruptions are easier to divert. Diversion is much more challenging when an equivalent volume of lava is effused in a short period of time. And it's not like you have vastly larger average lava flows than we do. The largest lava flow on Earth in the Holocene (modern era) is in Iceland (the THjórsárhraun - 900km2, 25km3, 70km underground travel followed by 130-140km on the surface). For comparison, Hawaii's largest holocene flow is the Ailaau Flow at 430km2, 4-5km3, and 40km.

If we want to limit to more recent flows (since Ailaau was fairly recent, in case you think Iceland stopped having big eruptions), Iceland's biggest *after* Alia'au was Laki (1783–1784 AD), at 600km2, 15km3, and 80km. It lasted for 8 months to 2 years, depending on whether you count the concurrent Grímsvötn eruption as part of it. So much gas was released from that huge volume of lava that despite us being nearly arctic (polar volcanoes have much lower near-term climate impacts than equatorial volcanoes), it caused a winter so severe that the Mississippi froze at New Orleans and ice was seen floating in the Gulf of Mexico.

We simply get bigger effusive eruptions than you, full stop. Not all eruptions, of course, both of us have a huge variance in eruption scales and dynamics. But trying to claim ours are somehow "easier" is just not in line with the facts. Also, Hawaiian eruptions tend to occur on terrain that slopes significantly more consistently toward the sea, aka where you want to divert lava toward; on flatter or less-consistently-angled terrain, lava "piles up" more and makes it easier to overtop berms.

There is a practical side that it is easier to move people and build coffee shacks

I'm not talking about "coffee shacks", I'm talking about whole communities and beloved places. In particular, I'm thinking about the 2018 Lower Puna eruption. Of course the homes near the vents in Leilani Estates were doomed, but there is absolutely NO reason why you should have lost anywhere close to as much as you did so far from the vents. Losing Kapoho Bay for example was simply cultural fatalism. I watched a person crying on the news saying she didn't understand why Pele chose to take such a beautiful place. It's not Pele who took it, it's your insane resistance against doing anything to protect yourselves. That was one of the easiest possible flows to divert. Most of the lava fronts moved at a crawl, you had warning long in advance of the eruption and a very slow eruptive rampup (didn't really take off until June), and you had a steep slope to the south into unpopulated areas you could have easily diverted it down. Losing all that was a choice.

"Oh, we can't!" is just an excuse for your fatalism that gives you an excuse to not put forth the effort to actually do it. It's not the 1940s anymore, we're not chucking surplus WWII bombs at lava tubes anymore. Lava diversion is a science and is routinely effectively done. There are limits, but you were nowhere near said limits for sites far from the vents. There are costs, but they are nowhere near the costs that you paid by refusing to act.

AI can generate lots of bug-reports and most will be fake or low-quality. The human review needed is the actual bottleneck. And that will not go away.

The admitting would have to be done now.

RAM and block-storage may, at some point converge, but that is in the future. Block-storage will require you design for it for quite a while still.

Au contraire. I have actual, hands on-experience with it. You are the clueless one here.

Not yet. Some junior coders may find themselves sacked and unemployable, but most people can still work without LLMs and ripping them out of places where they basically do damage will also be entirely feasible. Maybe if they had managed to keep the hype for 10 years or longer, but that is completely outside of the possible.

Yes. And it looks to me like that will happen pretty soon now.

Yep. Would get anybody else a long prison sentence.

Direct criminal action sounds "shady" to you? Seriously?