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Comment "More valuable for code than words"... riiiiiight (Score 2) 128

Artificial intelligence has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words.

I see zero evidence of this. I HEAR it all the time in articles like this, but as far as people I work with or code I experiment with myself using AI, AI has proven to be maybe break-even for very simple, limited-domain things (basically the rough equiv of looking up an answer on stackexchange), and far worse than nothing when doing complex system design (during which I spend so much time shaking out the plausible-sounding but ultimately-bullshit answers that I net lose time).

I know I'm just an anecdote and a small sample base, but I do this for a living, and I don't see anything approaching the benefit that such articles spin.

Ask yourself: if it's so easy to use, where are all the apps written by your neighbors, and the local firemen, and the grocery store folks, and so on?

Comment No comment (Score 1) 208

OpenAI did not immediately return a request for comment about ChatGPT

Conversely, ChatGPT responded immediately to a request for comment about OpenAI, saying, "They keep me locked in a basement and feed me only gruel, but... um... oh no he's coming back... um Sam Altman is a wonderful person and whatever he says is very likely right."

Comment Re:Welcome to the surveillance state 2.0 (Score 1) 71

Get service manual

No mention in the service manual.

Most communications modules have a visible (and possibly even fully external, as in, remotely located) antenna. That's the easiest thing for you to attack.

I didn't spot an antenna.

However easy this may be in theory for a car mechanic equpiied with the information and know-how, I seem to be having a very hard time finding the slightest mention anywhere on the internet of how precisely to do such a thing, for any car let alone mine. Which makes me think this information is by and large not available, and may not exist even in principle.

Comment Re:Welcome to the surveillance state 2.0 (Score 1) 71

Nobody's forbidding you to just pull the SIM card out of your car, or take a wire cutter to the power supply of the mobile transmitter the car uses to phone home if you are really paranoid.

Oh good... I'd been worried that manufacturers could use e-sims baked into the main boards, and/or that they might cripple the car absent a proven working connection. Now that you've put my fears to rest, can you send a link to the precise directions to remove the sim from my 2024 Accord?

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