Democracy is for retards.
Government did this. All of this. Government regulated so much that only a rare few can afford to compete.
This is late stage statism. Retard voters are to blame.
Like you.
I completely agree with everything you said!
The OP was about developers losing jobs etc. My personal experience is, this has allowed me to effectively code up an extremely complex system even though I don't have the practiced fluency to be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time. The end result of the AI tools is that the 2 developer positions I had are now no longer open. I will end up filling them later, but for now, AI has cost these jobs.
I hope you will end up joining my CTF event. I am excited to show people what we can do.
I actually do have a cybersecurity background. I also have 4 patents for the tech and a contract from the Air Force to build it. What I lack is personal experience working in a software development environment. I can code but I am slow and messy.
My previous developer created the initial interface quickly but then significantly slowed down his throughput. After a month of "forgetting" to commit his work, I was finally able to dig through what he did and discovered that he had never actually implemented the technology the contract was looking for but instead created a traditional server and emulated (faked) the output, all while claiming he was implementing the agreed upon tech. That is when I fired him.
Since then, I have been able to build what I described. It's not easy. It is on the edge of what database and browser technology is capable of but it is working.
While I suspect that you are generally right, sometimes manager do actually know what they are talking about...
As far as my "novel cybersecurity architecture," my independent pentesters and NSA contacts haven't been able to get anything, even when I give them open access to the servers and live data plus the source code. I plan to host a several month long public Capture-the-Flag pentest event with serious cash prizes in a few months. If you are so certain that it will be easy to get in, give me a yell and I will make sure you can sign up and with the prize money! (shoot me an email if you are interested www.mimirsec.com)
I am using Claude.code to develop my novel cybersecurity architecture after multiple senior developers (25+ years) were unable or unwilling to build what I described. I kept getting "what they thought I meant to ask for" rather than what I actually specified.
Sadly, because I lack the coding background, it took me a long time to figure out that they were not following instructions. I burned through a lot of budget for not much results before I fired the developers.
Now, using AI, I am building what I spent years describing. I can code some but I can't write hundreds of thousands of lines of Rust and ever hope it works. In the end, I don't expect the AI results to be production ready. Instead, I am creating a proof of concept that will need to be optimized, improved or even rewritten by "real" developers. However, once I have a working system I can then point to it and say "Build me that but better."
AI has cost 2 senior developers their jobs by allowing me to actually create what I documented.
Ebiikes are a legal workaround loophole for motorcycles.
The NDA thing is a bit embellished. Yes, Gary Kildall of CP/M was out flying the day IBM showed up unannounced, and his wife and business partner did not want to sign anything without him around, but the issue was resolved quickly once Gary got back into town and they had a deal with IBM. The problem occurred when Digital Research started getting way behind in their benchmarks and IBM was getting nervous that they would miss their release date. They mentioned it to Bioll Gates whi decided to pounce on a potential opportunity. IBM got to release on time with something. CP/M 86 did release later, but IBM kind of throttled them by charging more to include it instead of PC-DOS. That might have been revenge or, most likely, the fact that Gary got a better deal for CP/M than Microsoft did for DOS, and they passed along the cost savings to teh consumer. Gates had done this kind of stuff before. He sold the complete rights of Applesoft BASIC to Apple for $20,000 total.... no royalties! He had a similar deal with Commodore. It was basically all loss leader stuff to get their name out there. Honestly, I don't know how they survived basically giving away their main product.
You realize there are a bunch of homes available for sale in all sorts of places for next to nothing. The problem isn't "housing", it is "housing where people want to live". Declining population in places like Italy have created housing collapse where nice houses aren't sold, and sit empty, and they'll pay you to move into one.
It isn't colonial, it is industrial. The current format of school is that of preparing for a factory workforce. We are post industrial, knowledge/AI/Whatever it will be called workforce.
Educators need to come to grip with getting EVERY child their MAX educational value we can. This means breaking the rows and columns of desks in a classroom, and getting kids their most valuable education they can get. This means some will do much better than others. Talent has gradations. Not everyone can be a Astro Physics expert.
"fair" is subjective. What you think is "fair" isn't really fair. It is objectively unfair to use qualitative terms in discussion of policy.
What would be fair, is that Government live within the means we ALREADY tax out of the public. Cut Spending first. Then, when all cuts that can be made, are made, then MAYBE we can have a discussion on tax increases.
Its Not Your Money.
Envy isn't a virtue.
The problem here, is "fairness" is subjective, not objective.
Use of that particular term is deliberate tug on the emotional center of brains. it works, which is why Progressives ALWAYS use it.
Which is exactly what they said a hundred years ago when they instituted the "income tax".
Rich people will move out. And take their wealth with them.
Taxes are regressive. All of them.
Conspiracy theories are, until they are not.
Secret Pedo island owned by rich dude with elitist ties was once a "conspiracy theory". Now we know that Epstein killed himself 100% because "They" said so.
"I'm just asking questions" idiots notwithstanding. I'm looking at you Candice.
"The identical is equal to itself, since it is different." -- Franco Spisani
