I have three boys in uni.
Read to them from babies and they were reading by preschool.
Regular library trips.
All three are regular novel readers now.
So parenting is a big part. Diggers are good at Dig Dig Digging man I got so sick of some books haha
Dr Zeus was a fav!

Thats why we compartmentalize projects now into a specific self contained domains.
Postgres inside, C# or Python backend, React Front End, API at the edge, gitea CI/CD
For example
Asset Manager
Property Manager
HRMS
QA
Sensor Data Viewer

All self contained.
The Asset manager identifies the risk level of the asset, the HRMS has training and comptency matric for the staff.
Seems to be working well ATM

I’m an EE and have coded mostly embedded for over 40 years.
In the 2 months, using Claude code, I’ve
Created property management application, including APIs to read 12 solar accounts, AI read pdf electricity bills, tenant portal, SharePoint integration, graph and entra integration, document storage, tenant doc sharing, lease management, critical date and compliance management, task management, dashboard, key register, DB backup within and external to app, etc etc. Full CI/CD pipeline with Gita secrets injection to docker. C# backend, React front end. I wouldn’t have a clue how to do front end dev. It took under 2 weeks, where most of time was devops with IT.
I’ve also developed a complex magnetometer data processing app (sync demod, FFT, water wall)
An asset management application to keep track of hundreds of pieces of test equipment.
An app to port 100k+ test records from unstructured ATE test logs to a structured searchable database.
Ported a payroll checking app I wrote in C# to a web app.
Debugged a commercial RFID microcontroller project with an obscure bug.
Developed a software architecture plan for complex mining sensor software.

The AI is WAY smarter than me most of the time and has allowed 20x productivity and done things I’d never had the patience to learn, like front end dev.
The cost of code has gone to almost zero.

Nobody will use their new app, because the old one sucks and we all use Spotify.
Spotify works so why change.
Want to do something innovative add Bluetooth.

IKEA force you to use an AI chat bot. It was so bad for the multiple times I had to use it, I ended up asking it to patch me to a human on the it’s line.
But not quite as bad as when MS outsourced L1 support to India and instructed the support person to empathise with your plight.
I’m sorry sir you mouse disconnects 5 times a day. That must make you feel mad,

"...do you discover who's been swimming naked."

AI mostly comes to us from California, the original land of "Fake it till you make it". AI fakes intelligent results, without "knowing" anything, with what Gary Marcus calls "a world model". A world model means you "know", that you "understand", that you "comprehend" that:

-- the cited-cases part of a legal filing should be only drawn from the list of existing cases that the thing was given
-- that laws mentioned should exist in documents called "Title Code" that the thing was given
-- that there are laws, these are supreme "orders" above others given
-- that one of them is "killing human beings is against supreme orders that supercede all other instructions" (sorry, not on topic: it's just HAL didn't "know" the 3 laws)
-- that human hands have just the five fingers.

They just fake it, producing documents that look like good ones. They can't make it. Not in them. No world model.

And the tide is going out.

And don’t forget they still use Imperial. And tipping culture. And voting on tuesdays

...with a couple more features you probably don't need, missing some cool stuff you'd rather have.

And hideously expensive and complicated to administer, instead of free.

...about intellectual property "value" is that you couldn't snap your vinyl in half and get the CD for the price of reproduction plus sales, since you'd already bought the "intellectual property value".

You'd bought that, too, when you bought the vinyl, but they didn't respect YOUR intellectual property rights, did they?

Not saying they had some legal obligation, but I've laughed ever since at the attempt to morally shame intellectual property "thieves". Now, people who paid for intellectual property rights (to view) are having them taken away without compensation. Whatever the legalities, it is, morally, theft. They're thieves.

They deserve no respect or political support.

It only has to hallucinate less than a human to be usefull.

Just about every engineering and non web LOB software.
Altium, any old microcontroller dev platform, most mech CAD.
Altium Designer
Keil MDK
IAR Embedded Workbench
Intel Quartus Prime
Lattice FPGA tools
Proteus (if used)
Siemens/Cadence PCB tools (PADS, Xpedition, OrCAD)
Solid works
STLink
flash magic
NI lab view.
M1 ERP
PSOC creator

You get the idea

It’s a long list.

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. "
      -Gen. Smedley Butler, 1933

A lot of American wars are at the behest of resource-seeking corporations. National forces are brought out when corporate enforcers are inadequate or expensive. I thought all this got very obvious, too, when "Blackwater" was so much in the news during Iraq, and the legal need to give them the same immunity to every Iraqi law that American national troops enjoyed.

Running a business with $15M turnover, we are not big enough to take advantage of big business shenanigans.
It peeves me off no end, that I pay 30% tax on profits while big multinationals spirit their profits off tax shelters.
I don’t mind paying the tax, as you need tax to provide for a modern society. I’m peeved multinationals are allowed to engage in tax fraud.

Actually, the "youth" (50) death statistics were the worst thing about America's response to COVID.

Canada had about 1/3 the death-rate that America had...overall, through most of the pandemic. (I followed from March 2020 to March 2022).

But among people under the age of 50, it was SEVEN times as bad as Canada's. Canada lost just 1100, under age 50, during those two years.
An equivalent for the USA population would 9X as much, or just 10,000. America actually lost over 70,000 citizens under the age of 50, to COVID; it lost more people too young to remember Vietnam, than it lost in Vietnam.

Among developed nations (i.e. not India) only America had COVID orphans, who'd lost both middle-aged parents to it, had to be adopted.

Thank you. I was there, and it was about 8 hours, not "almost two days".