... for the low low price of a quarter peta-buck.

There IS a place for AI as a coding assistant. If used right by someone who COULD write good code from scratch AND who is well-versed in using his AI tools, it could actually save time.

In very limited problem domains, non-AI program-generators and LLM-"AI" program-generators can actually produce usable, correct, reasonably efficient code almost all of the time. But so could a reasonably competent programmer who was an expert in the problem domain.

In any case, using AI is likely to use a lot of electricity.

Old way for a small task an entry-level person could do in 2 weeks solo: a week to design, a few days to code, a few days to unit test

New way - "official/what you tell your boss": a few hours to design/decide what you want the output to look like and rough-draft your prompts a hours to "code"/prompt the AI, including iterations, and a few hours to test the results.

New way - "reality/what you actually do": design? what's that? a few hours to iteratively create prompts until you get output that "feels good," and testing the results - yeah, right, who has time for that?

Sigh.

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If only the very small percentage - possibly "0 plus epsilon" or less - of Reddit that was worthy of the term "expert advice" were used as training data, this could be useful.

But the odds of that happening are less than "0 plus epsilon."

... designing my workflow to avoid using this browser.

Is it to improve understanding of the required, basic-standards subject matter?

Is it to provide an enrichment opportunity?

Is it work that literally cannot be done in school, like "interview your grandparents about New Years Day 2000"?

Is it to instill good habits that will be needed later when "all work is homework" such as college/university?

The answers to these questions will drive the answer to the question "how much homework should students have, and what should the homework be?"

Just keep them away from your floppy disk and you'll be fine.

We may be entering a world where we can find 99.44% of bugs and we may find the "easy to find ones" a lot faster than we would find them today, but it's very arrogant to declare "we are entering a world where we can finally find them all" given how many unknowns are still out there.

Yes, the progress is good, but we need some humility and we need to be realistic with our expectations.

Well before pets.com, small textile firm was bought out in a hostile takeover. The new owners pivoted the company into an investment/holding company.

While not as big a Apple, it is pretty big in terms of market capitalization.

You may have heard of it.

On the very good side, this will lower the cost and lead times for new drugs.

On the bad side, nation-states, terrorists, and even just Evil Agents Of Chaos[TM] who have access to tools like this and the knowledge to (ab)use them will be able to unleash biological chaos on the world.

Imagine if someone created a virus that infected everyone, spread rapidly, but was asymptomatic or had only common-cold-like-symptoms on everyone but their intended target, but it killed their target. The target could be an individual, a family that uniquely shared a mutation, or an entire ethnic group where the mutation was common in that ethnic group but rare outside of it.

Even worse, once unleashed, the virus will likely mutate and people or groups that are not the intended target may die, including the people who unleashed it.

I fear this is what is in our future.

The underlying filesystem has supported larger partitions all along. It's just the Windows UI tools didn't expose this.

... instead of doing 300 unrelated experiments, do 30 experiments and independently replicate each one 10 times.

At least then you'll know if you've got 30 repeatable experiments, 0 repeatable experiments, or something in the middle.

* Obvious life-imprisonment-felonies, like serious ads to recruit someone to assassinate the President of the United States

Beyond that, I've got nothing.

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OK, I lied, they will "touch" them long enough to call the FBI and let them deal with it.

Car dealer web sites have had configure-and-buy-it-online-except-for-the-final-signature for well over 20 years now, if you were willing to pay the fixed price the dealer offered.