Turn off anonymous cowardice before complaining that people won't debate you, you two.

Yeah, the products were better under Cook.

Here's the question. What is the difference in work between review and understanding the code versus writing the code in the first place?

I think the results vary a lot by scenario. In some cases, the business problem, the requirements, and the implementation are clearly separable, and exceptions can be clearly defined and partitioned a prior. These are amenable to automatic code generation and "higher level of abstraction".
In other cases, the business problem and requirements can only be untangled by asserting some sort processing logic, and then working from there. The more granular the logic that has to be specified, the closer you are to saving time by just writing the code yourself.

I suspect that the estimates of massive labor savings put almost all work into the first category. In reality, I believe quite a lot of work lands in the second category, and much of the work in the first has already been automated.

Case in point, TFA mentioned writing a calendar app for her family. There are a bajillion calendar apps for families, and nearly every piece of enterprise software now ships with calendaring and project management features of some sort.
So this was a hobby project, or her family has some extremely unique un-apped needs. Who knows, as an Amazon exec she may need to schedule their personal helicopter, private jet, and security detail and that probably is more complex than everyone else's soccer practices, doctor's appointments, and school forms. But I have a hard time seeing how there's a huge space of unmet demand for calendar apps. The biggest problem with calendar apps is all the stuff that is going on outside of them that people do not want to put in their calendar. AI does not change that.

For providing hundreds of thousands of gentry progressives the opportunity to angrily wave their hankies at the Trump administration! Surely victory is at hand!

Considering France is about to elect National Rally and Germany the AfD, and Britain Reform, I'm pretty sure America being embraced by the rest of the world will not be a problem, especially if we *don't* elect a Democrat.

Happy Alberta Day!

When you use that many italics to emphasize words it's a good sign you need psychiatric help.

It's appropriate for a Chess.com story given their app now has ads by sketchy, low-class companies

Propaganda is always easier when you're armed with a bloody good point. So try to not let the enemy have those.

The male/female ratio in China isn't that skewed, it's something like 106:100. A lot of it is probably the same thing you see in every other country, where both men and women lose social skills and have unrealistic standards of what kind of partner they are entitled to.

Right-wingers have been loudly cheering the inevitable economic downfall of California for years as its economy continues to grow. It must be so infuriating to them that Commiefornia just keeps getting richer.

"After 9 years as a US citizen, he could run for the US Senate. He would be 76 (or 74) years old.In short, it looks highly unlikely that he could (or even would) run for the US Senate."

Yeah, he would be way too young for our Senate.

I feel bad for entry-level folks -- though continually surprised how many of them outsource so much of their thinking to AI themselves. It seems like most college students cheat with AI, making them less useful as entry-level employees.

His opinion seemed clearly explained and well reasoned. As opposed to your comment...

We should have the tools. I'm not arguing that we should go back to agrarian lifestyles. But somehow we as a society should find a way to not permit wanton waste of resources in the name of cheap, fleeting entertainment.

The issue is that those videos are being created en masse. People would simply not create them in the first place. Making resources so easily available that people waste them without thinking is the reason capitalism has turned our society into a planet destroying machine and called it "quality of life". Nobody's quality of life is improved by the existence of videos of fake cats doing improbable things, yet we've now invested a civilization worth of resources into creating them. It's the broken window fallacy, writ so large that it's unrecognizable.