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Comment Diff flubs versus more flubs? (Score 1) 172

Maybe there is a learning curve in switching between knowing what kind of mistakes humans make versus bots?

Somebody with say 10 years experience dealing with human mistakes will learn to spot problems and warning signs faster over time. If bots make different flavors of mistakes, then there will be a learning curve to get a feel for where and how bots tend to choke.

After first the bots will look like morons, but over time you'll realize they are just a different flavor of morons (compared to newbie or sloppy humans).

Reminds me of Trek episodes where it takes a while for the Trek crew to realize a species does things different, and adjust accordingly.

Fair assessment?

Comment Re:"Management or Bust" is Stooopid! (Score 1) 135

> When I left, they wanted people to be Senior level before being people managers. But there were more senior level engineers than senior engineering managers...

The best techies aren't necessarily the best managers, as people tend to devote brain power to either things/concepts or people but not both. In rare cases one has both skills, but that's probably unrealistic to expect at scale such that they need to rethink the assumption of a path of rising thru the tech ranks and then shift to the management ranks. The best jugglers ain't the best runners and vice versa.

Comment Re:Brakes off on a downhill society. (Score 1) 94

Our economy depends on bubbles. Our debt is too large to have decent stimuluses, and thus we've been relying on bubbles to re-juice the economy after the prior bubble whacks us. It's like a crack addict: we need another hit to mask the pain of the prior.

Although there are fuzzier earlier examples, this started when the dot-com bubble rescued us from the Glasnost aerospace slump (made famous by the movie "Falling Down").

Comment Re:Brakes off on a downhill society. (Score 2, Interesting) 94

We can't blame all this on the Clowntator, but he has had the FBI take a lot of focus off of real crimes to chase alleged illegal immigrants with "crimes" such a parking tickets, alleged voter fraud, and political opponents. Plus, a lot of experienced people left the FBI who didn't want to be part of the Gasstapo.

Thus, a cause, no, contributor yes.

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