Google itself is now a defunct project for me. I stopped using it almost a year ago because I simply don't need it anymore. News feeds produce hundreds of millions of AI generated books, articles, news stories, and comments every day, so browsing through all that content no longer makes much sense. Many publishers automatically generate three-page articles from a single-sentence tweet using AI. At this point, the question of who is copying whom is a valid one. Anyway, Google has already announced its intention to replace traditional search results with AI-generated responses. If that happens, it will effectively mark the end of Google as we know it. I wish them good luck. If the new AI interface gains traction and the company manages to survive this transformation, it will be an impressive achievement. So far, AI fragmentation is high and continues to grow, which means Google is becoming just one of dozens of AI providers. I should also mention that the entire World Wide Web is, in many ways, a de facto franchise of Google. If Google loses its dominant role, all those publishers will have to figure out for themselves how to remain relevant in this new world. If they still depend on Google to survive the transition, then they are, in fact, already out of business.

NASA can put any year in calendar 2027, 2028, 2029 whatever it wants, but Chinese would be there eventually anyway, regardless of NASA plans and opinion on that matter

All the business risks today are in the AI space. Nobody needs legacy developers who only code full-stack applications anymore. After years of hiring sprees, we now have thousands of highly skilled developers on the market, so not taking advantage of this opportunity would be foolish. Just fire the brainless coders who need babysitting during every code review and hire real software engineers who actually understand what they’re doing. I worked at several companies where team leads were babysitting developers at a ratio of one lead to eight people. In many cases, they were basically rewriting the developers’ code from scratch during every code review. The assignments were so detailed that they practically included pseudocode in Jira tickets. Many of these developers could easily be replaced by AI. So after almost 15 years of hiring people who dislike software engineering, we are finally returning to a more normal situation where companies no longer need so many low-skilled coders. I expect the software industry to lose at least 60% of its workforce before demand for real engineers starts growing again. The main problem is that we are going to lose an entire generation of young engineers because they cannot find jobs right now. This situation could create very serious problems in 10 years. Current graduates are struggling to find work, and even high school students cannot take computer science classes because enrollment is so low that schools drop classes. Fewer students are interested in math and engineering, while more are choosing business-related fields instead. After all the AI hype, we may end up with an entire lost generation.

So you would rather prefer Musk to be a Chinise than American, right?

The entire web and HTML are part of Google's ecosystem, designed to keep you browsing through Google ads for as long as possible. At the same time, ChatGPT indexes a wide range of data sources in multiple languages and provides brief answers based on numerous sources. If you're looking for information, you don't need to visit any webpages, making the web and HTML obsolete from this perspective. ChatGPT and other LLMs don't rely on the web and HTML to gather information; they can process data in any form and return answers in any form. As a result, Google's business model, which depends on users searching for web pages, is facing challenges. (corrected with ChatGPT)

Layoffs has nothing to do with employees. Large corps protect their ecosystem via buying all talent from the market, they just deprive competitors of people who can create competitive products. This is especially true in Software Engineering space, look at volume of open source projects, the entire open source ecosystem is basically piracy of commercially successful ideas. It takes years to evolve some products and months to rewrite them into open source. So the same happens in start up space, small start up having 3-5 talented engineers can easily compete against large corporate products created by MS, Amazon and etc. The current layoffs indicate that large corporations consider current market to be low risk, so they don't care to keep people they never needed in the first place. I head dozens of stories about former amazon employees who ware saying that after passing infamous Amazon interview process they had no job to do for months, the hiring team did not need people at all, the HR just push more people into teams, as a result manager was jut asking new employee to go and do something useful. We have relatively high interests rates, so current market is safe in terms of large corporations survival, they have a lot of space for reductions and they have no threat from starts ups around them. Absence of startups activity does not require aggressive investment into high risk hypothetical products and markets, no need to invest into them. If large corporation supports outdated or basically obsolete product from technological stack perspective, but accounting for major source of profits, corp. does not need to invest into innovative products to keep its developers happy and busy. They wont go anywhere, they would cling to old product support for the sake of job safety, So large corps may consider to put on hold all those initiatives designed to keep employees busy and happy.

I worked in many countries and in various cultures. The recent American swing from cubicles to horseshoe open space where employees worked liked on economy class airplane seats and then back to opposite extreme of 100% remote is very impressive. When we switched to horseshoe space, managers ware saying that it is perfect environment for collaboration, unfortunately it was true for the first couple of months and then that perfect collaboration space transformed into endless party of ultimate employee happiness, people just gave up trying to have their job done. No need to work when your manager discusses what he had today for breakfast. The switch to remote work was also very interesting, for the first couple of months people managed to finish everything they wanted for the last couple of years of horseshow chaos, they slept well, they worked well and had their job done in time with high quality. But then we started to notice that people just get drunk in the middle of the work day, some people got so used to to remote work that they forgot to use tea cups and drank from regular glasses right on camera. People got lost. Management started to complain on lack of connectivity with employees. Guys, there is no ultimate environment, you have to change your work style and work environment depending on what you need to focus the most at the moment. Office is need and remote work is needed as well. I am 100% remote by my employment agreement, fortunately I don't drink at all and I still do some sport exercises, so I keep myself focused on the work I do, but guys it is really difficult to produce results non-stop, I miss my office waste of time, where I spent hours on some bullshiting meetings. Remote work is a contract work, it requires a lot of discipline.

It is hard to argue about Nortel because it impacted wealth of significant number of people in Canada. trying to challenge it is the same as going into political debates. You know excuse is like ass everyone has it, but the truth stays the same Google centralized and monopolized WWW and transformed it into search engine franchise. It has been throttling innovation in internet for last twenty years. I would expand the above statement and say that the entire .COM crash is a result of Google's search engine monopoly. We code a lot of waste using the worst coding language and UI standard. The complexity is not manageable anymore, regardless of whatever Google wants, there is no way for it to keep internet technologies under control of google search anymore.

They fierce in protecting web from new technologies and general tech evolution. We as developers spend tons of money and time to make apps work across multiple platforms and one of the major problems we deal with it is web applications dependency on google search. All major web frameworks are designed to be SEO friendly. The web and HTML it is a worst UI development environment I ever used in my life, but it is number one in popularity nowadays. Web browser and web in general is application delivery framework and nothing else. It does not matter where application resides in Apple Store, in Google Store or anywhere else for the end user, web page is just an application. Google search is not capable to index apps, so web frameworks trying to make it possible. It creates significant overhead for apps development and maintenance. Google throttles the entire generation of developers to spend their life efforts on making their apps to work in multiple platforms. We don't develop anything new we, spend majority of our time dealing with artificial problems created by Google. The web as it was designed many years ago is nothing else but distributed Wikipedia and it is dead long time ago. The modern web, I'll repeat myself, is application delivery framework. The modern web and Google's desperate attempts to prolong its life blocks many initiatives, our UI development is stagnant for many years already. It impairs fiber optics internet development as well. We continue to rely on 30 years old technological stack. Facebook is trying to bring virtual and augmented reality into life and business applications, but it brings the end to the web as it is now. At this moment in time we ware supposed to come back from client back to server again and deliver video stream instead of delivering "HTML", their should be no browsers, no security issues, no UI standards, nothing. We should use video streams for everything. Google invested into Fiber optics to throttle fiber optics deployment. Google invested into Stadia (Video stream based UI) in order to take under control that technology and throttle its development and kill emerging idea and market. They invested into Android in order to avoid standardization of application delivery and development around apple store, so it prevented web from getting obsolete. We still develop ugly JavaScript apps in as ugly web frameworks. Google started investing into cross platform frameworks only when it became obvious that new JavaScript frameworks achieved success in cross platform development. Google at the moment is the most evil technological company, it throttles development of almost everything in tech stack. Most of the problems we have exist due to HTML and Google.

We don't need any accumulators, we have atmosphere which stores oxygen for us for free and transfers CO2 from producer back to consumer. The atmosphere is ultimate medium for our energy operations, we just need to achieve carbon neutrality and keep levels of CO2 and Oxygen constant long term.
The lithium or any kind of battery is bomb it contains pure energy ready to explode. If you look at gas engine tank, it contains only fuel and in order to explode it needs a lot of pure oxygen, which is not available in our atmosphere, so if we use syntactic gas for our cars and keep our energy production carbon neutral, that is not a big deal then we don't need to extract tons of forever chemicals from earth and continuously contaminate our eco system.
We breath and emit CO2 , we consume Oxygen. Trees consume CO2 and emit oxygen. The same is true for our agriculture and cars, we just need to keep balance of gases in our atmosphere. Our atmosphere is ultimate battery we just need to maintain it right.
The gas engine and cars is organic by the nature of things, we don't need to invent any other crappy technologies, which can significantly disbalance energy production and consumption in our ecosystem.

Did I miss something? America does not produce microchips anymore, right?

Yes, of course, considering everyone as idiot who does not agree with your agenda is very familiar to me. I saw many people of your kind, be careful, history repeats itself all the time. You don't need to go very far, just open your wikipedia and read a little. The problem is not "global warming", but another ice age, That is going to be entertaining, your f internet exists for less than 30 years, but Sun and Earth here for quite a while, so trust me the rising temperatures is OK compared to dropping temperatures. Since Industrial era!! Wow, Sounds cool!! Do you know the age of our star and our planet? F.. Historian!

The UN committee which investigates "global warming" is going to stay out of their luxury jobs, if they prove opposite and declare that human activity has no impact on climate and periodic fluctuations in sun's activity produce significantly bigger impact. We merely coming back from minor ice age to the temperatures our planet had for centuries. So what ever they write is just bull shitting for money

Prefect, now we know where to take a fresh wave of immigrants! Our children should study basics of LGBTQ+ from kindergarten up to high school, who cares about reading, math and science?

Ok. It won't take long time to replace all 911 operators with similar to chatGPT system, so every call is going to be auto processed by machine learning, it will use speech recognition, geo location, IP address tracing, voice signature, your social profile and all the bells and whistles we use to identify fraudulent banking transactions. Therefore any call like that would be marked as false positive right away. The next step is to identify deliberate vs non-deliberate false positives and take actions. That system is going to be near perfect, but as every ML system it is going to have ERROR, that error will eventually jail innocent person who made call being drunk, simply insane and etc, there are numerous conditions which can make person to call 911 and produce some crappy statement. Are you going to chase every call or just ignore them? As soon as your system makes its first mistake and punishes innocent person, your rating of 911 calls from a regular, sober and sane people will drop by 99%. So good luck in your crusade against phone scammers. My advise is just focus on improving your ML efficiency, and consider every teenager who overplayed games as a betta tester of your system.