I fully embrace the AI tools and use for whatever productivity I want to extract. But there is clearly a commoditization going on similar to the search wars of the past. There has to be something else to make it sticky. ChatGPT was the first AI app I added on my iPhone. I recently deleted it.

I retain Gemini, Perplexity and Duck.ai (for privacy). I use Kiro and Gemini at work as allowed AI. We can use CoPilot too. It went from "cool" to annoying and stop making lousy suggestions. ChatGPT is totally fine, but as TFA states, it has no moat, nothing makes it sticky.

At this point, I am willing to pay once a year for an AI to get deeper research. Gemini won this round with a solid promo. They are overlapping and will continue to outdo each other.

I've been doing this for 30 years (dev, etc.). This should be easy since it's just a basic requirement for a high school curriculum. Alright let's go!

1. What is encryption? How to protect yourself using it.
- Kind of vague. I could exchange public/private certs or a symmetric token. Not sure what the outcome of proficiency is expected here.
2. How to verify identity online, using technology such as PGP.
- Know of it, never used it or needed it
3. How to read and understand software licensing and privacy policies.
- Know of it, never used it or needed it
4. How to understand unsafe data handling practices.
- Good one
5. Why open standards matter. For instance, why you should use ODF instead of DOCX.
- No idea what ODF is and why it's important over DOCX which is Microsoft's doc format IIRC. I have used/shared a doc/docx in 10+ years.
6. How to pick privacy and digital liberty protecting software.
- No clue what this is
7. The dangers of subscription first licensing.
- No clue what this is
8. Backups, why, how, and why they're actually important.
- Good one
9. Domain separation, how to separate Work, Personal, Temp and other activities.
- Good one
10. OS selection. Yes, I really want kids to know you have to consider the OS you run.
- I use the same one as my work. Used to be Windows, now Mac OS past 10 years. My first OS was an obscure mainframe platform so didn't translate at home. I was probably still on DOS at that point.
11. Safe browsing, which goes into all user agent masking, IP masking, profiles, containers and all that lovely stuff.
- Good one sort of, though I don't go masking user agent and IP but it's good to understand what it means
12. The importance of system cleanup, why you need to clear browsers every day, run tools like BleachBit, etc...
- What the hell is BleachBit? It's good to understand things like browser history and other tracking though.

That doesn't sound like an excellent school district. What makes it excellent if you see it that way? I live in a medium cost of living area of about 1 million people. My kids went to public high school and most everyone in their sphere was competing for getting into top UC (California) system colleges and elite adjacent private universities. They had a great public school experience.

The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the people had been sacked, wish it to be know that they just been sacked

I see comments about "what's the point, Gmail or Exchange already do this." I agree if you're looking at it in a rigid free/busy context.

Where AI could help is making fuzzier suggestions especially if I could make my blocked times more contextual. For example there are standing meetings that I will attend if I'm free like a monthly Java knowledge sharing session. There is the Maybe option, but doesn't seem to help with finding time to meet with others.

If I could rank/classify meetings, that might help and AI is good at sifting through that kind of stuff. Some of my meetings I might give high, low, medium priority. Some are recorded. All this to say if I need to meet with a few key people with busy calendars (managers and architects typically) and there aren't any free gaps, maybe it will identify recurring meetings they're in an send a proactive Slack to confirm if the slot can be reassigned, stuff like that. The same with edge work hours. We cross all 4 time zones. Here in California, I'd like my edge hours between 8:30 and 10:00 as last resort, as an example.

I have found many practical uses for Gemini and Kiro (Amazon) AI. I use both a lot and know I'm the final decision maker. They shrink the time getting from A to Z.

We Western caucasians can't be as svelte as black women and Latinas. And those Pacific Islanders can practically slip through the door gap.

Fatties are everywhere and in every culture.

Good point and stats as a reference. Now consider that in much of California, gas is mid $3 range and if you need to charge on the road, it's running around $.47/kwh. I just did a road trip this weekend. Tesla superchargers can be $.35 if you fill up off peak. And, if you put gas in the car off the freeway, it's more like $4+ range, but that's the beauty of gas cars, a 250 mile road trip is easy on a single tank of gas so you fill up where it's cheaper in the home neighborhoods.

And I drive a Model Y. It's a great car, but not getting much savings from the energy cost. PG&E rates are nuts. I do save dollars on maintenance though tires are wearing fast (and I'm a mellow driver). I like how it drives for sure. The Model 3 is even better from a driving experience having owned one before the Y.

Coffee certainly does have nutritional value

I wish I could explain my moderation. I'm pretty light usually using about 5 of 15 allocated. But if I comment and moderate, you know the rules.

I'm sure I moderate rsilvergun the most and have probably used all the categories, occasionally even ones that begin with the letter "i".

By the way, when I have mod points, if someone starts their post with "mod me flamebait" or similar, I don't even read the rest of the post. I simply grant their wish and move on.

Carly has a BA in Medieval History. So what? You've never met someone with an unusual arts degree who went on to better things?

Her executive career wasn't stellar, but she did ascend somehow unrelated to her BA at age 22 in 1976.

She also has 2 post-graduate business degrees including MIT Sloan. Are those relevant? Has anyone else risen to the C-Suite from that little niche program?

Horseshit. I have never been a book reader, my wife a light reader. My kids never saw me reading novels growing up. They went to a 5-8 public middle school that emphasized reading, and they ate it up. I'm doubt I'm that different. I suppose it can help, but who knows. Be a good parent and learn about what works for your kids. As adults they've followed some of my good habits and some of my bad ones and have many of their own unique traits.

Nietzsche says: "out of chaos comes order."

Does the Pelco brand still exist?

Plato, they say, could stick it away -- half a crate of whisky every day.

My work has been open to using AI for coding and deeper use cases. We have CoPilot and a limited Gemini. Q (now Kiro) was quietly introduced a few months ago. If you are a Saas on AWS, it's really helpful for contextual cases involving the cloud service stack because it can utilize whatever permissions are available. Example: evaluate my cold starts for lambda fancy-service-abc in region us-west-2. It's much faster than slogging through the online console or if you remember all the CLI for aws -- cheers! -- I don't because it's not an everyday thing for me.

Now I'm using it for code scenarios but needs good agentic design. That's the thing, all this AI isn't worthless and it's not yet going to replace experienced developers. I can scaffold code so much faster with my self designed agent which takes time to sort out but has been paying off.

AI - any of it - is just a another tool to build software, and create things.