Actually, there are long standing laws regarding water rights, and collecting water from the sky is illegal in some jurisdictions. Where I live, rain barrels are illegal. The water must be allowed to fall to the ground without interference. I have a well permit, but my usage is restricted. Just saying that the legal right to water is just as encumbered as content licensing, maybe more so. I think we still have rights to the air around us (hopefully).

An earlier post suggested that current AI is just pattern recognition within the searchable data. I tend to agree here. I've been trying to pair program with Github Copilot the last few months, I can get code snippets that are 80% complete at best and I'm never able to give a query that puts it across the finish line.

Some observations:

As I request changes to the code snippets, I see changes to variable names and other program logic unrelated to my last request. This suggests that it's not actually remembering context of prior requests.

If I observe Bug A in the generated code and request a fix, it introduces Bug B. If I then ask it to fix Bug B, then Bug A comes back. It kind of loops forever in this situation, it doesn't seem capable of fixing both bugs.

If I ask it to write a shell script, it is unclear if it is assuming bash, busybox sh, etc. The resulting script is incompatible with every shell.

This one bothers me the most. If I request a code snippet from a specific framework, say iOS Core Bluetooth as an example, it sometimes writes a piece of beautiful looking code. But when I go to compile it, I discover that it is making calls to functions that don't exist / never existed in the framework! This has happened for every framework I've tried, .NET, glib2, etc. I can't find the framework functions in a normal search, so it seems to be creating them on the fly. If I ask it for an implementation of the framework function that doesn't exist, it can't do it.

At current level, the AI is not actually intelligent, it's not doing actual design, and it won't be taking my job anytime soon. If I ask it to solve my problem, and the generated code from AI is result = funcThatSolvedYourProblem() it's not helpful at all.

Talking among friends in the biz, I hear that architects leave mistakes so that the contractors have issues and then the architects can bill for change requests.

Sometimes contractors are dealing with incorrect/incomplete solutions (thinking heating and plumbing) and have to redesign the whole thing on the fly.

For the rapid developments, teams are scheduled on top of each other and getting in each other's way.

Talking with friends in construction, it sounds like a big cluster!

I didn't see the word grift mentioned in the article.

I seem to recall previous versions had downgrade rights, so if Win11 is purchased then an older version could be installed from media. Is this still the case?

I was a heavy user of Google Music, and I find Youtube Music to be inferior. I notice that certain track lists that showed up over Bluetooth using Google Music in my car no longer show up from Youtube Music. It's a small but annoying thing.

The other announcement from Google which will have a much more significant impact to my life is that they will no longer offer the high quality storage for non Pixel phones beyond June. On Pixel, they are keeping the high quality but doing away with the original quality.

No more freebies I guess, but it totally messes up my backup strategy.

Since GPL only applies to distribution, not interaction with software over the network, GPL would not be the best pick.

There is another license called AGPL that handles the SaaS situation, where the operator of the server is obliged to make available the source code.

This is kind of old news, as the WSL has been out since last summer. I spend about equal time in this environment as I do running an Ubuntu VM.

I am really curious about Linus and RMS's opinion of this environment. I haven't seen it mentioned in interviews yet. RMS might argue it's a GNU-only layer, since there's no actual Linux kernel code running (although it's ABI-compatible).

I agree that Mats should be free to talk about the design, but he made a mistake using the title of engineer in his public communications. I disagree with the judge allowing him to use the title, as it dilutes the prestige and the specific legal meaning of the Professional Engineer designation.

I have my BSEE, E.I.T., and > 20 years of experience, but I do not advertise myself as an engineer, nor do I describe my work as engineering services.

Being unlicensed, I just call myself a hardware/software designer with a BSEE. He should have just said "hardware designer" or "product designer". Good ideas rise to the top. People can figure out his background and experience on LinkedIn, so he didn't need to say engineer in his formal writing. I think he could have presented his ideas without the legal issues.