My employer announced that AI costs will be billed back to departments. Token use (almost entirely among developers) was cut in half without affecting productivity, and perhaps even enhancing productivity because they had to think a bit about the best use of what they had instead of trying random things.

As someone with two EVs in our household, I think I might be qualified to answer this.

1. As the other poster already said, the cars need to be usable as cars. Having one tethered to the house means still letting the food in the fridge spoil while one of us is at work. That's no bueno.

2. It's not expensive to have a portable generator. Yeah, the big monsters that the richer folks have on the side of their houses can run you a pretty penny, but something you keep in your shed for an emergency isn't going to break the bank to buy and maintain. As for the gas, presumably you've been saving a bunch of money not buying gas because you drive an EV, so having to buy some gas once in a blue moon to run a generator is no big deal.

3. You stock up on fuel before a storm. Yes, it feels very silly to take an EV to a gas pump.

4. The generator gives you another option for "fueling" your EV. We haven't needed to do it, but in a pinch the cars can be L1 charged from the generator. This essentially turns the EVs into extremely inefficient gas cars (somebody on YouTube did the math on MPG charging EVs from a typical portable generator and it's pretty bad), but it means not having to wait in some long ass queue at the nearest DCFC station that has power restored.

Maybe if it's a secondary car. Can't very well power your house if your car is parked at work.

I've got a Bolt and saw on the Bolt subreddit that some crazy people have rigged up 12V inverters to theirs, which provides roughly 1kW for powering some essentials during an outage. I didn't see the point. I've got a 5.5kW portable generator in my shed, and if there is an outage I'm going to need what juice remains in my car for using it as a car (and to go to gas stations to get fuel for the generator, which always feels a bit silly in an EV).

I suppose it makes sense to have an EV that can provide backup power if you live somewhere with a particularly flakey electrical grid. Where I live, it only really goes out after a major hurricane and then it'll be out for several days. That's a use case more suited to a backup generator rather than tethering your car to your house for up to a week.

The problem is that the typical type of old guys you're referring to also tend to want the old school pricing, and those days ain't coming back. I know someone like this - they'd love a basic body-on-frame pickup truck from back in the day, but they're not paying $30k+ for it.

Yeah, we had it pretty good when you could get a base model Tacoma with a standard tranny and a four banger that couldn't get out of its own way, but damn if it wasn't cheap.

It gave me the numbers for the various trials. I don't have them handy and I didn't run them manually - so the AI could totally have made it all up. I did not keep the numbers so I have nothing to share.

Sure - it's just a hypothesis.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of the complaints are from ai bots and not real people.

There's nothing wrong with having a community were AI content is prohibited. In the future, such areas will probably be significantly more valuable anyway.

Some social media site is going to restrict all AI and find that many people would prefer such a community.

This doesn't mean you can't find AI slop online - there's tons of places. Why not have a few that are more selective?

I do not recall the details! But I did watch as the damn AI did repeat wall clock and sample tests to see where the time was going and try 2-4 different approaches and clocked each one in detail. I felt embarrassed because I *could* do all that and certainly had done it in the past - but it would have taken me a *long* time to set up each tests and analyze the results and try over and over and track the results for each.
As you imply - none of this is particularly tricky - it's mostly just labor intensive and time consuming. And those are both things that AI has no trouble with.

Related - when I tell an agent to optimize for performance - especially if the request is well targeted - it does an *amazing* job. Doing performance work is so well defined and described that it can follow the patterns and do all the checks and get it really right. To do a good job it's really repetitive and there are often a lot of angles to check and .. it just does it really well.

I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

He was royally pissed when those pesky investors sued him over his pay package at tesla.

To be clear, he was sued by a single investor, Greg Varallo. Greg owned a whopping 9 shares of TSLA. Greg is also a prominent Corporate Lawyer.

Musk's compensation package required Tesla to grow to an unprecedented size for him to receive the compensation. Musk recieved NO salary - he would only be compensated as Tesla grew by reaching these various milestones. When the compensation package was first announced, all the news outlets talked about how it would be impossible for Tesla to reach all of those goals. But then the Model Y became the best selling car in the world, and Tesla actually started reaching those goals. The stock price increased by several multiples. And THAT's when Greg brought his lawsuit. Personally, I thought the compensation package was good - Musk only got paid as Tesla grew by leaps and bounds, which would also benefit stock holders.

The problem with a SpaceX buyout of Tesla, is that those remaining milestones become null and void. I'm worried that this is going to have a negative effect on TSLA shareholders.

So, how'd you feel if other businesses took the same approach? Let's clutter up the sidewalk with plumbers, electricians and other tradesman riding around in little vehicles that can't go in the road. It wouldn't be long before someone says exactly the same thing I just said for the food delivery companies: if you want to run a business, there's inescapable overhead costs, with one of them being the purchase of vehicles that can legally operate on the roadways.

That's an entirely separate issue. I'm not getting into the socioeconomic can of worms that is job loss due to automation. I simply said the robots shouldn't be on the sidewalks in the first place, which would amazingly also solve the problem of their path being blocked by "protestors".

Nope. When it was Sam Altman doing the whole "You're probably not going to have a job thanks to the tech my company is developing, so here's a pittance as a way of saying oops, my bad." thing, I felt the same way.

Hey kid, I flooded your bedroom but here's a free inflatable pool float you can sit in. We're good now, right?

I have a modest proposal: Let's build factories to manufacture glass panes in less prosperous states and then go around smashing windows to create demand for their products. What could possibly go wrong?

This is like Trump promising $5K if republicans win the midterms. It's just a PR stunt.

Imagine trying to reason out the tax implications of something like this. The privacy implications. Everything.

Elon: "I really wanted to, but lawyers wouldn't let me!"

No way to see that coming.