Who is going to do the vibe-cleanup coding if it takes a decade or three for the tech to catch up to the hype?

There are consultants for that.

Yes, it's the same old song, but the AI bubble does it on an unprecedented scale in terms of energy use, environmental and societal impact, and the enormous amounts of money involved and the industry concentration in the hands of a few giant players.

That was an excellent, well thought-out article. Everyone should read it and not just rely on the summary on Slashdot.

I've never seen a software distribution mechanism as careless and sloppy as NPM. Bazillions of dependencies and no signing of packages. At the very least, NPM should start demanding signed packages (and have said packages signed by a real human being, not by some CI process with access to the signing key.)

No, he didn't deserve it. Political violence is always wrong.

But come on. You have to admit there's a huge amount of irony in the fact that a guy who says a certain number of gun deaths per year are acceptable was the victim of gun violence. Doesn't mean he deserved it, but does cast his words in a new light.

What's so completely hypocritical is that just a few months ago, Baby Vance and Elmo Musk were foaming at the mouth about how Europe lacks freedom of expression.

But unless you publicly state that Charlie Kirk crapped nuggets of sunshine and was the most brilliant person on Earth... you now get canceled in the USA.

This page claims over 400,000 recordings but links to a listing of only 187,034 audio files. I'm guessing the discrepancy is the girth of the suit: IA agreed to take down the files that the plaintiffs could prove were theirs and no money changed hands.

I still use and like Perl. Nowadays, I mostly use it for smallish scripts or medium-sized programs, but I have worked on three quite large systems written in Perl. It was fine. If you're a careful and disciplined programmer, you can write Perl that's just as readable as any other language.

The popularity of Python mystifies me. As a language, it's just... meh... it's OK. But the ecosystem is horrendous. Every time I upgrade to a new major version of Debian, Python scripts that use modules I installed by hand in venvs break left and right. What a mess.

I's the b'ye that writes the work
And I's the b'ye that proofs it
I's the b'ye that pays AI
To fill the work with bull-shit!

The tune.

ELEVEN!!!!

Why? It's completely rational from the companies' point of view. Workers in India will be paid much, much less than workers in the USA.

A 15-minute journey by car in London is going to be a pretty short journey. Have you encountered London traffic?

In my part of Canada (Ottawa), they seem to be adding roundabouts in new developments, but not retrofitting them on existing roads to any great extent.

I've never encountered drivers who don't know what to do at a roundabout. The signs make it pretty clear that vehicles entering the roundabout must yield to vehicles already on them.

Yeah, it's too bad Microsoft doesn't have any decent tools for remote collaboration.

Specifically, the jobs of statisticians in BLS are now very precarious. You don't contradict Dear Leader Trump Jong Un...