From the article: "Organisations reduced working hours by an average of 6.6 hours to reach a 31.6-hour week. Most gave their staff one full day off a week, either universal or staggered. The report found that protected days off were more effective than those on which staff were “on call” or sometimes expected to work."

Not sure what you are suggesting. We have static analysis tools now, surveyed here. Maybe you mean to have an AI which can design and run test suites?

Yeah, I don't want to draw this thread out, but you are spot on. Writing code is a small fraction of the task of developing complex software. If AI's can gather requirements (for a novel application or even just a complex instance of an understood one), then carefully specify the use cases, edge conditions, error handling and many other things, then we might see such a shift. Until then, "I'll have what he's having" :)

I agree with you. I've been writing software (in the EDA industry) for almost 35 years, and my own intuition tells me that you're right. But then, I also think of Upton Sinclair's observation It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

I agree that this sucks. I can share that I am running IOS 10.3.3, and have Overcast 3.1.8 running on it. This may be an artifact of the App Store only supporting a single named version? I would try contacting the developer to see if there is a way to get the previous version: https://overcast.fm/contact

Actually... Permanence kinda beat you to it.

In one of the first 'gosh-wow' science shows I remember watching, The Twenty-First Century, the host, Walter Cronkite, was allowed to drive a prototype car controlled with a joystick. It was actually installed on a lap pad! Both steering and acceleration were controlled with the joystick. Walter got it up to thirty or so, then tried to take a turn. He ripped a magnificent donut, and quickly decelerated. The auto engineer assured him that it was safe with practice!

The majority of your comment is insightful and accurate in so far as it maps to reality. I just had to nitpick on the one fictional element I know about. The crew complement of the original series Enterprise was around 400. In fact, in the episode "A Piece of the Action", Kirk explicitly says, "There are over 400 guys up there."

Unsurprisingly, Dave has been made aware of this joke, and has already put up a response. The sidebar listing many quotes praising his and Adam's contribution each of which predates the patent application date is pretty funny.

And if you want to get obscure, there was The 4400. Now there was good writing! ;^)~

Test your suspension of disbelief: Summer Glau was Jeffrey Combs' girlfriend...

And what is a "maroon"?

What a Maroon!