Kinda like a /. post.

The "preceding year" bit doesn't seem to get much respect either, because it takes longer than that to separate the wheat from the chaff.

An AI ultra-lint finds some vulnerabilities, so what does management do?
They have another AI they rented "fix" the vulnerabilities it knows about.

And soon, no human can know and work reliably on the code.
Management poured money into the initiative, and will not be proven wrong:
"AI found what humans didn't, so AI has proven to be a better 'programmer' than any human.'

Sure, something small isn't a big deal for a pro, but a code base significant enough
to undergo the expense of this process and then set the CIO's hair on fire,
say, the access permissions system for a major bank,
will soon be pwned by the AI vendor, forever more.

The first step is "AI, write this". It was easy, it worked, it's magical. You inspect the code, it's not bad.
The next step (because why do it yourself now?), is "AI, extend the thing you wrote", and it does it.
You test it, it works ok, maybe you glance at the code this time, maybe not.
New requirements come down, and you try tossing the AI the raw requirements and it
poots out a thing good enough to pass QA.
This time, you don't look at the code at all. Why bother?

And now, the AI owns the code base, and your organization is forever captive.
This is happening, at scale, everywhere, right now.
Good plan, frat boys. Enjoy your bonuses. The won't last much longer.

The problem comes with hardware which doesn't have a way (or, at least, a user-friendly way) to update its locale data. I recall having problems a decade or so ago with discrepancies between two computers because one of them hadn't been updated with the then-very-recent changes to Chilean law about summer time and the other one had.

But maybe an authoritarian dictatorship isn't a great example. Then turn your eyes to France and Spain.

On a point of order... Spain was in GMT until an authoritarian dictator decided that being in the same timezone as Nazi Germany would be convenient. France changed when it was occupied by Nazi Germany. Where you arguably get away with the examples is that there is a question as to why they haven't changed back.

With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.

It's a step function price shock that'll adjust at a stable price. If enough leave there is no point in owning the IP, doubt they'd open source VMware. All it takes, which AI makes easier than ever, is a workable alternative with an easy button. Have done a little proxmox - just attach to an ESXi machine and suck 'em over.

There are people still using VMWare?!?!? And their main issue is COST, rather than the fact that VMWare is like a thousand years old?

If the tencent cluster could smoke signal an OAI party somehow it'd be a plot right out of "Colossus: The Forbin Project" from 10 years before "Wargames"

There are use cases you're not covering. Last month I needed a photo of my sister-in-law's ID card to prove that I'd correctly transcribed her address (bureaucrats don't always understand that other countries do things like addresses differently) when applying for a document to make it easier for her to visit. If she'd had to be there in person we'd have had a circular dependency.

They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.

You don't know him and don't know he's a sociopath.

However, the people who do know him say he's a sociopath, so they probably know.

https://futurism.com/artificia...

Maybe you use different OSes to me, but I expect whoami to be deterministic rather than stochastic.

I mean the software is impressive and all, but since when is someone with a user ID in the 400,000s a long-time reader?

"I forget what they call it"