Social etiquette is illogical, stupid and should die
AI knows better than some of us

...that vibe coding is useful are the hypemongers, clueless wannabe techies who believe they can effortlessly get rich and clueless investors who understand nothing about tech but are desperate for the next big thing

Real progress is being made in creating useful tools that deliver real value. I find perplexity and chat GPT to be very useful for a limited number of tasks. Future AI may deliver tools that help us solve previously intractable problems.

Unfortunately, a lot of crap is being produced. Image generators, music generators, vibe coding tools, robot friends, robot therapists, corporate email generators and more are wasting time and money and making everything worse.

This seems to be true of every new tech. Some use it for good, some for evil and some for the stupidest uses imaginable

there are lots of those, often with their own "store." I find batteries like that a lot.

But this was explicitly a Walmart listing, by Walmart, rather than a 3d party listing.

That's about the only thing that such a centrally-managed setup gives, it forces a shift in the bureaucracy to make the oligarchy's mandate happen. The problem is that this may not account for things like environmental degradation, harm to the general population and other issues surrounding personal rights, etc.

Something of a compromise approach can be reached in democratic countries, but it requires all of the stakeholders from the federal officials down to the local building code inspectors during the construction process to be onboard.

What China does for 'the people' may well not be good for individual Chinese persons. Similarly to what the Soviet Union did for 'the people' was often quite harmful to individual persons.

The same goes for the size. It's pretty clear that scientists were ballparking its size in metric units, and converting the fractional units with that much precision was stupid. Calling it "about a hundred feet or thirty meters" would have been a lot better.

And this sort of thing happened long before AI was in the picture. People don't understand significant digits, and it's worse when it comes to estimates.

As for distance away, it would have been better to include something like its closest approach puts it around 3/4 of the distance to the Moon.

Real computer science is not the same as teaching the fashionable language or tool of the moment.
It should be about teaching students how to think about code and design useful and reliable software.
Current AI tools are interesting, not because they allow the clueless to quickly "vibe code" buggy, insecure crap, but because they give hope for a future where experts can build better software and use it to solve previously intractable problems.
The best things to teach are the conceptual fundamentals and the ability to apply the fundamentals to whatever tech comes along tomorrow

It's not just amazon.

I ordered a thermostat for my mustang last week. It was described as "sold and shipped by Walmart."

A couple of days later, I found an Autozone box on my porch. And not just the box, but the shipping return address was to auto zone!

??

the real tragedy of Viet Nam was that the US achieved *exactly* what it set out to do--which was a really stupid thing to do and waste lives upon.

The mission was *not* to defeat the north Vietnamese, but to keep them on their side of an imaginary line. US troops that went over the line got called back.

When the US finally decided it wanted to stop playing, the north wouldn't let them simply leave. To get them to talk, the US bombed them into submission, for crying out loud.

By any *military* standard, Viet nam was an overwhelming success for the US. US troops controlled whatever ground they chose, and won all of the battles.

But "resist aggression and stay on your side of the line" is a *stupid*, even criminal, thing to ask of a military. As is the lives it through away for idiocy.

Current LLMs make stupid mistakes and produce output that is sometimes dangerous or politically incorrect
The makers can't fix the underlying design yet, but the market demands products now, so they use human checkers
I'm not surprised to read that they are treated poorly
And yeah, it's a temporary fix until the tech is perfected

Genuine, important progress is being made
In a situation where billions are at stake, it's easy to see why hypemongers and pundits spread their nonsense
In a perfect world, real progress would be reported accurately with no predictions about the future
Unfortunately, the world is far from perfect
Expect the hype to get more three-dick-ulous

...but I kinda like the idea...in theory
H1-B visas have been used to import cheap workers, not workers with special talents who aren't available locally
There are plenty of qualified workers available, but they aren't cheap
Unfortunately, in practice, this probably won't solve the problem and will simply create other problems

>They didn't say whose value it strengthened.

LG's, Westinghouse, GE, and so forth!

Actually, if they had the testicular fortitude, your Samsung would display an add reading, "if you had bought LG, you wouldn't be seeing this!" :)

hawk

>Has about the same importance as smart tech in a fridge for me.

I live in the desert, you insensitive clod! :_)

but seriously we doohave many days of 115-117F most summers. Self-replenishing ice is *important*.

it's not why we bought it, but our LG actually has two ice makers; one in the refrigerator door, which you can actually clean out, and another for larger square tubes in the upper freezer drawer (which we turn off for the cooler half of the year)

>A fridge will last for a decade or more,

you would *think* that, but my prior fridge was a Samsung.

The ice maker died of its own buildup just out of warranty, the drip tray for the water dispenser caused rust lines through the paint below it, and the whole thing failed at 4 or 5 years--we came out one morning and it was at 50.

Compare to the Samsung dryers whose stainless steel barrels tend to crack and go out of round, wanting a $400 replacement!

The refurbisher who came out with our temporary dryer told us that from his experience (primarily washers & dryers), Samsung had the highest failure rate, while the other Korean brand, lg,had the lowest, with everything else in between.