I mean "certified Linux user"? What does that mean? I can log-in?

I have heard the empty promises of QCs for 35 years now and it was clear back then that this will likely never amount to anything. I don't care what they publish. Factor a 256 bit number on a QC and I may care again. Before that it is all just a scam. Oh, incidentally, the record (!) for actual, real, non-faced QC factorization is 35. Not 35 bits, 35. And it was done with a circuit specifically crafted to factor 35.

Not really. There may be some people that can perform on those levels, but they will be universally mentally defective in rather serious ways. Humans cannot live without oxygen, fluids and nutrition either, and no amount of "freak" can change that.

Indeed. So either make sure your skills are good enough that you have options and can simply leave when you run inti these assholes, or do not work in tech. If you work in tech without those skills, you are essentially just a victim.

Yep, that sounds pretty accurate. Numbers over understanding is never a good idea.

And have seen how crappy and limited LLM-type "AI" is for quite a while. The others you cannot help. They see the hype and then believe. Mindless victims.

And there was a lot of manual labor involved but there were also tools to do a lot of the boilerplate for me.

This absolutely reeks of boilerplate tools being called ai. It's even possible that used an llm to do what you would normally do with just boilerplate code tools.

Don't get me wrong llms are already taking a lot of customer service jobs but I think that's mostly because there's so little competition left in our economy that companies can replace people with shitty chatbots and you don't have a lot of options so you're just stuck. You have to put up with it because there's nobody else to do business with.

In a more competitive market with proper antitrust law enforcement I think we'd see a hell of a lot less AI chatbots and a lot more people we get to interact with.

But if wishes were horses beggars would ride

It's complete bullshit; nothing more than an attempt to anthropomorphize AI to mesmerize the remaining idiots who haven't figured out that it's worse than useless for everything except finding identifying patterns (and maybe generating large maps for first-person shooters).

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created so they can hide the effects of climate change from both the public and their investors! "

And the best part is at least 25% of the people here can't tell if the quote above is real or not. Treaty of Tripoli be damned.

How will it stack up against an actual junior when they start at least trying to break even on the cost? Those megawatts aren't free.

Or just have the leader of the squad that's about to go threaten a kid over a bag of Doritos give the photo a look first. It pays for itself by leaving the squad free to pursue something more relevant and worthwhile. The 30 seconds it would take to look at the picture isn't even enough time to get to their cars.

Sure, but that's beyond dumb. Any moron knows the difference between a hand with a finger extended holding a bag or Doritos and a gun.

As punishment, they should be required to report to the front of the cafeteria and be paddled by the student in front of the entire student body.

The local news can make a day of it.

The job is boring as shit. If you score too high on an intelligence test they won't hire you because you're likely to quit after training.

We don't pay well enough to counter that so there you go. Cops are dumb by design

There are going to be some freaks of nature that can exceed the average.

For example there are people who can sleep 2 to 4 hours a night and be perfectly okay.

Now none of this is sustainable even for those freaks. Eventually they have health problems and have to stop.

But if you're a billionaire you can draw from the entire global population for your workforce and thanks to automation you need less and less workers every year.

That means you can just burn through all of your workers destroying them physically and mentally on your way to becoming a trillionaire.

Assuming the technology they're working on pans out which honestly it looks like it's going to then whoever controls it is more or less a god king or an emperor of mankind. You can basically do away with rank and file workers leaving billions of people without any place in the economy or society.

If you're thinking about that in terms of maintaining a healthy capitalist economy that's a disaster.

But if you're thinking of it like a member of the ruling elite who is disgusted by being dependent on consumers and workers it's a dream come true. It's a return to the good old days of the divine right of kings or the Pharaohs being literal gods. Or more recently Japan's emperors.

AI is not a technology for you or anyone that works for a living.

AI exists to allow wealth to access skill without skill accessing wealth.

It's not for you it's for a handful of billionaires so that they can break the dependency on workers and consumers once and for all.