Exactly. I was shopping recently for a high value item. I found one vendor who had it for sale with a 3% credit card fee. Another vendor had it for sale $1500 less. I asked him if he charged a credit card fee. He said no, that was the out the door price. So I bought it from him.

So the 3% was already in the lower price, but the other vendor was trying to double dip on fees.

Worked great for tons of children in the 90s signing up for columbia house and getting free CDs. 10 CDs for a penny and then collection letters that are unenforceable ? Sign me up!

My generation is really good at technology because it was new and there was a hacker culture to support tinkering. Then technology got easy. Now kids are pretty tech stupid (yes they can use it, but the struggle to troubleshoot anything). This could bring a resurgence in hacker culture.

Most stores in my area actually now scan your ID at the register. No ID scan, the system will not allow them to ring up the booze. I'm 100% sure that is being datamined.

Are we not using TDD with AI?

I write tests, AI writes code to pass the tests. When I find a bug, I write a test. Repeat.

I'm not on the engineering team at my company, but I do a little bit of coding as part of my job.

My company has a good AI coding policy: "You are responsible for all code you check in. You are encouraged to use AI responsibly, but you must check it for errors. If you turn in code that is bad, you can't blame the AI."

Plus, while we are trying out a few different AI platforms, we have token limits (I don't know what they are, because in my role I never come close to hitting them - but company-wide I know our budget is lower than one engineer salary.) And different platforms are allowed for different things. Any company-proprietary information is only allowed in certain AI platforms; and nobody is *EVER* allowed to put sensitive information (API keys, passwords, even user names) into any of our AI platforms.

In my role, I often interact with customer data (customer logs, customer integrations, etc,) we have exactly one AI platform we're allowed to put "customer data" in to, because it's the only one we have 100% control over the data for. That platform does have multiple models available, though.

As for what I personally use it for when coding? Debugging. "Crap, this shell script isn't passing through this environment variable properly over SSH, figure out what I did wrong."

Or "A customer wants to integrate our API with - write me a Python script that does " and have the AI look up that other company's API info and get me a starting point. I never directly use any of the code generated this way, I use it as a starting point for my own code. An "Oh, that's how that company's API works", which I then verify on the API documentation link the AI gives me, to make sure it was actually telling the truth.

Think about the Irony.

Money is backed by violence. As in if you donâ(TM)t give the government its money, even from the value of your bartering, it will use violence on you. That alone gives it value.

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That is crazy overkill. There are services that just provide one off phone numbers. For example cloaked.com.

I did this recently when buying a car. Each dealer got their own email address and phone for me. When I bought my car all those points of contact ceased to exist.

Piss, they are going to have every employee drink water at home and deliver frosty piss at work.

But Iâ(TM)ve been told for years you can build better, more powerful laptops cheaper, so that canâ(TM)t be true.

First rule of capitalism, if people are paying it then it was acceptable.

I think their end game is to buy VPN vendors and get some income as everyone suddenly browses porn hub from some african nation.

What is the future of human creativity if AI writes the stories, makes the movies, writes the songs, creates the podcasts.

Is the future of creativity crafting a single sentence correctly for AI to build what you want?