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.

that don't have their head shoved very far up their asses and are not on a university or federal payroll WANT CUTS, WANT TCJA tax relief extended, and WANT to support American jobs in the private sector.

No. What they WANT is everything they have now but to NOT have to pay for it.

What we are seeing is pure greed. "Give me everything but I won't pay for what I am getting."

Read the paper. They broke a 22-bit key on commercial hardware.

They cited being able to do a 50-bit key but didn't discuss it (in the English portion anyway)

This doesn't reduce value or "make people poorer."

CO2, above what is consumed in the natural cycle, is PURE garbage. Right now, companies are dumping their trash inside your lungs and doing so for FREE.

This is already making people poorer, it is just hidden because, traditionally, it wasn't accounted for. The UK tariff is simply accounting for the value these companies are taking from everyone, quantifying it and requiring the manufacturers to actually pay it.

Seems pretty reasonable to me. I think everyone should be required to pay all their bills.

I recall reading a theory that suggested that plank scale black holes could never actually completely evaporate. Heisenberg uncertainty with quantum gravity theories or something. I am not a physicist so don't ask me to explain...

But, if true, there could be a swarm of plank scale black holes through out the universe, concentrated by the existing normal matter (i.e. galaxies). They are so small that they can't actually absorb matter and the direct gravitational effects of a single one are below detection levels but the combined mass is significant leading to an apparent "extra" mass, also know as dark matter.

It doesn't matter if you have a gun or not. Human beings are the most dangerous animals ever to walk/fly/swim on earth.

It is EASY to create very lethal weapons with minimal resource. There is also a principle in security, if someone is willing to die just to kill you, then they are almost certainly going to succeed.

Regardless of how armed the society is, government ONLY ever stays in power if the general populous allows them to by not revolting.

Look at history. Britain was famous for disarming colonies and territories from Scotland though the American colonies. Yet they FREQUENTLY had revolts and lost ALL their territories and colonies.

Putin, Kim Jung Un, Ali Khamenei, etc are all in power because the population of their countries allow them. Kim won;t last a week if the general people decided to remove him and it doesn't matter that the country is unarmed AND has the worlds largest standing army.

I have my towel ready...

Just a quick clarification.

Yes, they MUST be breeder reactors, but they can be set up to breed only what they need and not require any external neutron source after the initial startup.

In addition, you can breed a small excess of U-232 then use that to start a second reactor, rinse and repeat.

Just thinking out loud here but aren't there subduction zone in the ocean right now? If my high school earth science class (or Nature https://www.nature.com/article...) is to be believed, plate tectonics already eats a large volume of the oceans every year. This is replaced through volcanic out-gassing and comets.

We could pump all the earths oceans into the mantle and it wouldn't make much of a difference... other than killing all of us through dehydration that is.

"Aktchewally..."

The major issues with fracking are the high pressure fracking fluid which breaks up the rocks to allow the oil / gas to escape to the surface.

After you are done, you have changed a solid or nearly solid rock formation into a cavity with only fracking fluid for support. Then you move on to a few feet to a few miles away and do it again, then again then again then...

With geothermal, you are drilling a single tube and using it for decades. I am sure there will be underground structures that are carved to make the thermal transfer better but the critical piece is that you only have to do it one, not over and over again.

Quoting from a comment on a "denier" Web site
 

Fossil fuels are not some magical panacea. They provided a cheap energy source. Every new cheap energy source from better foods to wood power to water power to coal power and others have seen similar expansions in quality of life.

It is true that fossil fuels use has seen the longest and most substantial growth in history. HOWEVER, it isn't because it was "fossil fuels" it was because it was cheap energy.

Unlike 150 years ago, we now know that fossil fuels aren't nearly as cheap as we though due to environmental and health damages (plus eventually running out). If we look at the actual TOTAL costs of different energy sources then fossil fuels come up significantly wanting.

Given that energy MUST be available and continue to grow to maintain our billions of people, we should all insist that the CHEAPEST overall energy source be the primary source.

Renewables are now often times cheaper than fossil fuels (even when environmental and health costs are ignored). EVs have buzz because they are now ALMOST a drop in replacement for ICE vehicles. This means fossil fuels are not REQUIRED to be the cheap energy source any more.

Religiously defending fossil fuels makes no more sense then religiously attacking them.

The point of the article is that the cost of labor in Asia is going up.

Therefore: Labor (combined with shipping costs) in the west becomes cheaper compared to Asia.

And they might just skip Africa because the countries there are not particularly stable. If you spend a billion to build a factory then you want it to stay in good shape for a few years...

and, Right back act you, Moron...

Wages in the west have stagnated BECAUSE of cheap labor in Asia...

I am looking forward to manufacturing moving back to the West as Asian labor market get more expensive and transport costs increase due to fuel and security costs which remove all the financial benefits of manufacturing in Asia evaporate.

This will leave the Asian labor markets demanding better conditions and manufacturing balanced between East and West. This all strikes me as a good thing.