Per Delta, the AI pricing isn't individualized, meaning all customers buying the same class of service at a given time will see the same price, so I don't think that would get you anything, unless maybe your AI agent gets good at predicting when exactly you should buy your ticket, but that seems unlikely because your agent will always be operating with less information than theirs (e.g., yours doesn't know exactly how many seats are already sold).

I find that it works well to treat current-generation AI agents like bright, incredibly fast but overenthusiastic and incautious junior engineers who do not learn from their mistakes. They can be extremely useful, but you have to be careful to limit the damage they can do if they happen to screw up.

Still waiting for the gumdrops to return.

Haven't felt the urge to lick screen in years!

They burned me back with the Reader cancellation. Aint never trusting them again.

I don't think anyone struggling to afford health insurance -- especially now that insurance can't deny pre-existing conditions -- is shelling out $20k for bleach injections. It would be much cheaper to get an individual healthcare policy and get it to pay for proper chemo.

"If something happens" [dramatic pause, raised eyebrow]

These violent delights

True productivity is showing lowering labor costs every quarter.

Labor is the ENEMY!!!

Naw, still not showing less labor costs for the quarter.

That means I won't get my yearly bonus!

That folks using these pattern matching and regurgitation systems don't realize "Do not delete the code" and "I will not delete the code" have null meaning to a system, other than the value of weights based on the words and letters.

There is no "I" to understand what these strings of letters and words actually mean.

It just regurgitates common pattern completion it's ingested after quantitizing "Do not delete the code". It sees "I will not delete the code" as the most common words/order to follower the inputed words.

AAAAAAAUGH!!!

From the time of throwing bones and looking at patterns in the stars stupid human-apes have wanted answers from something other them themselves.

Using AI to replace experienced coders, we've started down the road of getting rid of US manufacturing knowledge.

40+ years on, tool and die makers, etc are in high demand but 2 generations have not gone into the manufacturing fields in any great numbers because we offshored everything to Asia.

Now we're driving out coders. What happens in 5-20 years when it turns out loose pattern matching systems aren't any good at innovating new code? Where will the coders be?

You should be careful of taking the claims of the Chinese Communist Party at face value. China has universal health insurance, but it is administered in a way that many people canâ(TM)t access critical care *services*.

For example if you are a rural guest worker in a city, you have health insurance which covers cancer treatment, but it requires you to go back to your home village to get that treatment, which probably isnâ(TM)t available there. If you are unemployed you have a different health insurance program, but its reimbursement rate is so low that most unemployed people canâ(TM)t afford treatment.

Authoritarian governments work hard to manage appearances, not substance. This is a clear example. It sounds egalitarian to say everyone has the same health insurance, but the way they got there was to engineer a system that didnâ(TM)t require them to do the hard work of making medical care available to everyone.

If you want an example of universal healthcare, go across the strait to Taiwan, which instituted universal healthcare in the 90s and now has what many regard as the best system in the world.

The obfuscation was a feature. Not a strong degree of security but not nothing. Dumping the database of urls would be insane and invite all kinds of scrutiny and abuse.

40 years? That's so cute.

Nah. Transactional implies a level of coherence and planning that is clearly absent in the current administration.