Is that the motivation for all the AI slop hitting open source projects? People trying to pick up cheap credibility and resume points? I'm really curious why it's such a problem...

I've had a long professional development career, and the 2026 frontier models do most coding and debugging work far faster and better than me. I wish like hell that LLMs could be un-invented, but to be an effective person, one must deal with reality.

All the trust and verification issues you mention are issues with human developers as well. Even "accountability" for software faults doesn't really stick to individual developers unless it's egregious and frequent... bugs are expected. The only real differences on the software quality front are scale: the LLM can write more code more quickly, but it can also review and test more coffee more quickly.

I do agree that many orgs will fall into the trap of writing unmaintainable software simply because they don't balance that increase in scale. The great improvement is that when these systems collapse under their own weight or sing technology, the pros will be able to rewrite them much faster.

Does anyone actually use these browsers or is it just a ploy to soak up VC dollars?

Yeah, my Musk sycophant friend says the same whenever I express skepticism about Elon's endeavors or character. Which is funny since I rarely read Electik and my arguments aren't from there.

If you climb a mountain and see the sunrise from the summit, you feel like a champ. Because you've done something hard. Now what if the park service builds a road up the other side and you finish your climb only to find the top crowded with tourist buses? Well now you feel like a chump... a superior chump maybe, but the sense of satisfaction you got from summiting will be gone.

That's all really complicated... just confiscate their toys and bar them from using smartphones and social media for one year. Maybe throw in a few hours of community service.

Done. Problem solved. They'll grow up to be well-adjusted, or at least well-adjusted enough not to robo-rape girls.

Musk is a brand, which like any brand needs periodic marketing to maintain mindshare and relevancy. The value of his companies' shares hinges on fanbois' belief in the brand ~ e.g., the perception that Musk is building a sci-fi future. Musk knows he must do stunts like this periodically to stoke the faithful.

I hope you're a rusbot because if not it's truly sad that a human being would choose to live in such a complete state of bitterness and spite. Show yourself some kindness man.... there's a big wide world out there full of new experiences and opportunities.

What's the price going to be tomorrow, after Big AI gets a government moat?

Fascist states tend to become highly obsessed with vitality and manhood. But wars haven't been won on muscle and bravado for a long time... things like logistics, intelligence, and combined arms are way more important.

Of course, fighting a religion or ideology is another matter. The military can only set you back there. You're better off using cultural weapons (good will, propaganda, trade/wealth, etc).

No kidding... gee, I wonder how they know quasi-monopolistic consortiums "will have leverage to demand higher retransmission fees"? Where could they have seen that play out before? Oh right, that's their own usiness plan.

This. Fox News did the same to engineer doubt about the 2020 election. Always be suspicious of the framing of "a growing number of people think...".

Yeah, got to generate a steady stream of promising headlines to prop up the stock price while each new traunch of SPCX shares gets dumped on the bagholders^h^h^h^h^h^h retail investor.

In a worse case scenario, AI superintelligence would be like giving hostile genius aliens root access to most every computer in the world. In a relatively "happy" scenario, white collar work is nearly eliminated in 1 or 2 decades and the billionaires hide in their bunkers while everyone else is just expected to rot. It can get a lot worse than Iran having nukes (which would be concerning for Israel and the Saudis).