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core audience doesn't notice it. You pretty much have to be neurodivergent to notice

Neurodivergent people on Slashdot? Neeeever.

Addendum, it's roughly comparable to being afflicted with tennis elbow.

No, overcycling liver cells makes them either wear out prematurely or turn cancerous.

Humans Suck! Can we reboot humanity? Or will they do it themselves with pollution, AI, and/or nukes?

I didn't say cheesy software was profitable, only that enough biz's want it. Perhaps idiot startups will keep reinventing the idiot wheel. PHB's are alive and well.

but happy cholesterol levels :-)

Per #2, a lot of actual software is sloppy crap. If AI can make sloppy crap faster than humans can make sloppy crap, then it at least overtakes the very large niche of crapware.

Tribalism groupthink competes with power + greed to screw up the world.

This one is hard to call because AI is very good at analyzing and echoing code patterns for both debugging and code generation. However, the code ultimately still has to be vetted by humans for non-trivial apps, and there will be plenty of edge cases where the human has to do most of the work anyhow.

And some devs will struggle using AI effectively while others will zoom high and wide. The ratio of the first to the second is still an unknown.

Remember how much promise self-driving cars showed about 15 years ago? It was like they were "almost there", but the "almost" remains in place. The edge cases are mean SOB's, taking longer to solve than anticipated. We could face similar hurdles with AI-assisted-coding. AI's bugs/flubs are quite "creative" and may turn out to be common time drains to recovery from.

"Prediction is hard, especially about the future" - Yogi Berra

I don't want any part of the AI market prediction biz, YOU can have it.

Okay, but my point still stands that he was surprised at how fast it was used up. I can't find the "surprised" quotes just yet, but have seen them before.

Correction: the following should have been quoted:

Another permission can just block you from printing them. Combine these and you end up with a real problem when companies create "fillable" PDFs

> For instance they have a "page extraction" permission which can block any attempt to separate the document into single pages and then turn the pages into images for an OCR process.

In theory a print-driver could be devised to "print" each page into an image, such as BMP, PNG, etc. But I agree the devil's often in the details.

Another permission can just block you from printing them. Combine these and you end up with a real problem when companies create "fillable" PDFs

The ratio of problem-PDF's to "normal" ones is probably the key to weighing the given trade-off. If the bad apples are few, then the savings from having mostly good apples still gives a better aggregate labor/resource consumption score.

Tom perhaps was technically right if those five computers were gigantic with gajillion cores, which IBM would be happy to make and sell.

Do note that although it's hard to confirm Bill Gates actually said "640k is enough", there are other quotes that suggest he was indeed surprised by how quick devs bloated up their software to use up all 640.

Gates was forced to practice tight DRY, YAGNI, and KISS to make early MS software, but a parsimonious approach was soon abandoned by the industry, because they could. Being parsimonious is labor intensive, and machines generally grow ever cheaper than people.

he government should open their financial books, line by line, invoice by invoice, expense by expense so that forensic accounts could go in

Then thousands of internet trolls will post "that and that look suspicious!" and gov't workers will spend all day on office history research to satisfy the trolls.

Be careful what you ask for. Birtherism x 1000