You're just fooling yourself now... I've conducted experiments despite what you might think, and the results have always been so disastrous that I gave up trying. Same goes for my colleagues. And my interns may make mistakes just like AI, but they have one advantage: they learn from their mistakes.

Well, time will tell who is right... But the way things are going, my way of doing things may will end up being actually safer than this AI-generated slop that's popping up everywhere and being marketed as "the best thing in the world". And I don't have to worry about how many "tokens" I have to spend on what I'm doing, because, after all, I'm not using any.

You’re getting somewhat usable results from AI solely because someone else in the world has already done something exactly the same or very similar to what you wanted to do. This isn’t all that unlikely to happen because there aren’t that many different ways to make a form receive and display data, for example.

Now, if you take someone like me, who is constantly creating new things or new ways of doing things (and no, I won’t describe them because of trade secrets), AI just gets in the way and can even be a serious security risk. The only thing AI has been somewhat helpful with here is acting as a “Google summary,” and since I’m the one who decides whether the AI’s suggestion has merit or not, it never touches the code itself.

Cars are actually useful. AI, on the other hand...

Just don't use AI.

You are the only loser here ;)

Actually, let's correct my comment a bit since you, being a snowflake, couldn't grasp the "why" of it. I actually used to buy games. But those were games that I still own, and if I want to play them again (even decades later), I can. While the games they currently sell to you they can take them away from you at any time, unilaterally and without warning. You'd have to be an idiot to accept those kinds of terms. So, pirating.

Maybe one of these days they'll go back to selling games that are actually yours, and then I'll go back to buying games. But I think it's unlikely they'll change their minds.

I'm not able of care even less about what you think.

That’s why I pirate games without a shred of guilt. Why would I pay for a game when the author could take my money and then decide unilaterally at any time that I can no longer play the game, and without me having the right to a refund if that happens?

Given the current level of developers involved, I question whether the permissions will always work.

Victory.

Then there is the noise factor and the fact that the homeowner may need more electricity (electric car, pool, hot tub, etc).

I built my house. My builder pushed back on me when I asked for a 400A service. He said I'd never need it since I didn't have plans for a pool. Gave me a 200A service.

Now with 2 electric cars, a finished basement, and patio lighting I have two subpanels in addition to the main panel.

No mystery why Slashdot's active users are in the three figures.

If I operate a motorized vehicle on the street I need a license, insurance, registration and a street-legal vehicle. It's already against the law for an unlicensed little shit with no lights, safety equipment or common sense to suddenly dart out into traffic, swerve through screeching tires and near-misses and then do a wiseass pop back on to the sidewalk at 20-30 MPH. It's against the law to ride a motorized vehicle on the sidewalk too.

Oh, and shout out to the Mensa members who do the same thing wearing dark clothing at night at busy intersections. Every one of those goddamn bikes comes with lights installed. Except yours. Right bro?

Get a license and insurance or get the fuck off the road.

I know they must be peeing into bottles and just doing isometric stretching to prevent leg clots, but those guys must really have it rough if 30 minutes every 10 hours is not acceptable.

On the other hand, these fuel consumption numbers assume appropriate temperatures. You make it a little too cold and the fuel consumption goes up dramatically. Tesla car batteries don't like the cold. Source: I drive Tesla since 2014 and have two of them currently.

"Imagine you're in the Arctic, a voice from a meditation video tells them, with snowflakes melting on your skin."

And you're too goddamn stupid to realize you're freezing to death. Maybe they'll ping your phone and find you in a frozen doomscrolling pose under 17 feet of snow. Public education is really lighting up that scoreboard!