Talked to an old programmer last week. He was complaining. He is extremely qualified, a perfectionist, writes compact and flawless programs, in his own style that he kept tweaking over the decades.
He was complaining. Why? His company forced him to use claude to write code. (Take it or leave it). So he did. Complete new flow. Put in the effort and improved it to the best of his abilities.
His conclusion? The code works, efficiency is not great, but ok. The code often is hard to review because it is very verbose. His job satisfaction dropped below zero as he now is full time checking code from Claude.
The worst part? It costs the company an arm and leg in tokens. The reviews go slow. The code contains way too many subtle bugs. He claimed it would cost less time and money if he did the job himself. He was told to shut up.
Peronally I am very enthousiastic about Claude. But... I just do hobby projects. I never review the code. I am just astonished about what I can do with a few prompts. But yes! I have also stumbled on Claude doing the wrong thing with full confidence. Dragging you in a rats nest with a bad strategy. If the projects are a bit more uncommon, exotic, I noticed that it seems to run around like a headless chicken. I used to do hardware design as a job. No way I would leave the work to an Ai. Way too easy to make things that seem to work at first sight but fail miserably in real life. If you see how bad AI handles simple arithmetic, it clearly is not suited for the job yet.
So... I guess we need a few idio... entrepeneurs who take the jump. Go YOLO and use AI for software design. Make a big profit by selling these products. If they are lucky, it all goes well. If not, they can go bankrupt a few times.
Personally I am not sure what to think of it. It just is too early. I think people that are enthousiastic about Ai are people like me who do not review the code thoroughly. I think the Ai haters have a more realistic view of it. So in summary? It is nor good nor bad. It is not the magic solution, but it is not useless either. It is trouble. But trouble is good. Stick with trouble. That's real life.

Yup... my youngest one, has a screentime limit of 1 hour (very generous). During the summer hollidays, he got bored. I had work to do. So we clashed a bit. He got grumpy for not getting more screentime. Dad, you are behind a computer for hours! Yeah, I am working. He layed face down in the sofa in protest. Gave him a while to ... accept it. 15 minutes later, he enters my little office. Dad, I burried a mouse and a bird one year ago. Can I dig em back up? I want to find the skeleton.
Sure! Go ahead. Didn't hear from him for several hours. He dug a gigantic hole in the garden. Luckily I specified where he coud dig. Found worms, played with them. He tried out different types of shovels to see which one works best, ... Wife was not ammused. She lay face down in the sofa in protest for a while. Gave her a while to ... accept it. (Just kidding, we cleaned up the hole a few days later.)
Now for kids it is obvious. I think we adults have similar issues but they are more subtle. I may ask my parents to give me some screentime limits... ;-)

My parents always had Belgian Malinois. Malines is a few dozen kilometers from their home. Farmers were fond of this breed and as my grandfather had a farm, our family fell in love with the breed.
These dogs really suffers from worn out hips pretty fast. It is sad to watch. You see healthy dogs crawl in pain through their last years. If they can get that out? It is all worth it.

(/s) Look, we all know the millionaires are not the problem. They are the elite of our society. It takes a lot of effort and intelligence to get that far. They know what they are doing. It may not be clear to us, but hey, they are playing 67 dimensional chess! Clearly it is the fault of all those filthy technicians. They should just work harder. Always on their phones, their kids are always sick, ... Jezus! How hard can it be to split a little cable. Fire half of them. That will get the others to work harder. Filthy humans...

Teacher here. I see kids using social media great. But every year without exception, we get an incident were kids brutally attack another on whatsapp or whatever. They dig a big pit, kick the kid in and laugh at him from the edge. If he tries to get out? They kick him back in. Kids can be brutal. He? This year it was a he.
Few years back, they started a fight with "the odd one out" and filmed it all and put it out there. The leaders were even proud of it. Disgusting. Fools, we could see all who participated. The worst part? We are a nice school. Kids are well behaved. Pretty sure it is a lot worse in other schools.
Then about the pedos fishing for the innocent..., about the Russians trying to get us to fight eachother... Sure, this is the worst part. It is the dirt of the internet and there is plenty of good on social media as well. Sure most kids can navigate it safely. But plenty can't.
Ban it up to twelve? YES! Ban it up to 14? YES, ban it up to 16? It may be a bit long. Well, at least, that is my opinion. Cheers!

Exactly... Can you take over the website? ;-)

Somehow I doubt that these types would end up in an auditing job. Too boring?

Thanks! Did a small conversation with chatgpt about the video files. (It can be wrong of course), it did not know why 64 bit is needed for handling video. I guess 64 bits speeds stuff up as you can store multiple pixels in one revister and do the calculations with one clock cycle.

We need more people like her. It would force people to think. Do due dilligence, ... Yeah, interesting idea, but let's not go that way.

So... adapt? Show some fun stuf with AI decompiled code? Analyse interesting code. Show some tips and tricks to decompile something, ...

Old guy here... except for memory addressing, who needs 64 bits? 32bits ought to be enough for everybody. Seriously, why do you need 64bit precision?

You may want to read about the French revolution. At some point people had enough and set things straight.

Ah, where is the time you had to properly configure your extended memory if you had 1 megabyte of Ram. Bet my coffee machine has more Ram these days.

640k ram? That will be 150 dollars please.

That is why they are rushing towards real super intelligence. To get out of the mess they are creating. "Hey Claude, we have a problem."