FWIW, primitive savages are generally extremely charitable to others in their tribe. It's people who live in larger groups not as closely related that tend to be more selfish.

Outdated doesn't mean "stops working" or "isn't useful". I'm highly skeptical because of heat problems, and comments others have made about GPUs/TPUs not being space-rated. They sure aren't radiation hardened. But if they keep working, they don't become less useful, just less competitive against the latest model.

What orbits is he asking for? If it's LEO, then they'll burn out rapidly. If it's geostationary, then it's already crowded. If it's everything in between, then there's (potentially) a lot of space, but it's a bit more expensive to get there. And you'd want everything to have a VERY low eccentricity orbit, so then didn't interact.

One good idea would be to physically link the satellites together, but that would require a lot of development that hasn't really been tested. (It would also mean they keep position as long as any of them keep working.)

And how is he planning to address cooling? That's usually quite difficult and expensive on satellites.

Maybe he (or anyway his company) has answers to those problems, but I sure don't.

That NOT a problem. Don't expect any tool to be the be-all-end-all. It's really useful to have a bunch of classes of error be automatically detectable.

You're almost certainly correct. So do large corporations. So do spammers. So, AFAIKT, does the US govt. The constraints they operate under are a bit different, but the attitude seems to be the same.

A quick search didn't reveal what law he broke. Or anything about a trial.

It's too early to be sure how much is going to happen, but it's clear that a LOT is going to happen. The current state is intensely unstable. I *suspect* that AGI will be coming before 2035, but perhaps not. Whether or not it does so, it doesn't change the instability of the current state. Desk jobs that continue to exist are going to change drastically, and we don't yet know in what way. Perhaps AIs will continue to have a really short memory, but perhaps not. Just that one fork in the road will alter things immensely.

You can't have the specific expertise, because he's training it himself. Expect it to catch the kinds of errors he trains it to catch, and to probably do a good job at that...and a worse than lousy job on other kinds of errors.

If you just use it to create an initial mock-up, I don't think that cost occurs.

That's not a fair description. There are areas where go is a superior choice. Channels are very useful, and could save an immense amount of effort. OTOH, the documentation really NEEDS an AI front end. And there's no decent way to generate local documentation (i.e. documentation for your code that doesn't require setting up a local server).

So I've always avoided it for anything that needed much documentation (i.e. most things). (FWIW, I don 't like Doxygen, but it's the best documentation system I've encountered. Javadoc comes in second.)

Most published examples don't handle exception processing, either. But that's something that's easy to add. (OTOH, it can be really tedious. It's really something that AI *should* handle.)
(FWIW, I haven't used any code generator, so I don't know what Claude turns out, maybe it does handle exception. But the published examples sure don't.)

The analogy I use is "John Henry drove 16 feet and the steam drill only drove 9". I don't think one should try to be John Henry, but you can if you want to.

OTOH, the real question is "Is the code good enough?", and that depends on context. Lots of people have been saying they need to spend too much time correcting it. The thing is steam drills kept getting better, and John Henry killed himself trying to outdo them.

That's based on the physical force of the Federal Government. They insist that you pay your taxes in dollars, so everyone needs them.

Functions better than cash for what purpose? I don't think any of the stores that I go to accept it. They certainly don't advertise it if they do, but the advertise Visa and MasterCard. (Just be sure to pay off the entire card every month.)

You're probably going to need AI to make these things really useful.

(Expect the AI to be an external controller. I expect that our swarms aren't smart enough to handle the job.)