AI is stupid, but it can track details and at least provide a hint.

On the "make stuff that works" side, I've had the experience like yours. If someone lets it go too far, then it's a headache and it's easier to roll it back. If anything a bit painful as it's "empowered" some of the worst to make my day harder, being confidently incorrect all the time.

On the "find stuff that's broken" side, well, humans don't have the attention span and the AI techniques are catching little but critical mistakes by humans. In my codebase that has had regular security reviews for over a decade, including a few outside consulting companies, this year marked the first year that the teams had LLM at their disposal. It found two security issues that no one had noticed, one of which had been there almost essentially from the beginning. Admittedly, neither were exactly world ending (both required attacker to log in with admin privileges and the things you could do were a bit constrained), but they were real and undesirable. One of them kind of missed the point and although it mis-characterized the behavior, it put a light on an area where a human could actually think through and sort out the real issue, and how the flawed approach applied more broadly than the AI identified.

So AI as a review tool can work, it has a significant amount of false positives and misses stuff of course, but it can either directly catch or inspire human attention on a sketchy area.

The security team said that it was actually quite remarkable they only found two vulnerabilities that both required admin access, that most projects they dealt with ended up with 4-5 vulnerabilities exposed to either unprivileged users or even unauthenticated access. This is the sort of code the world is mostly built on.

Presumably, this is the whole point of these contracts, to hold the customers accountable for Micron making memory for them when the broader market is not necessarily looking for that particular memory.

Now I don't see how this can work out in one of the more well documented ones. OpenAI had at least a trillion dollars of these sorts of purchasing commitments, and even pretty bullish assessments don't support their ability to make that much purchase. So I do anticipate the market failing to make their minimum purchase commitments. I'm presuming there are penalties in these agreements and so they probably get money for nothing unless it gets so bad that OpenAI goes actually bankrupt.

It uses a screen as a gauge cluster, and puts the backup camera feed there.

They don't presume any speaker setup either, which would be a pretty key expectation of android auto in general.

They evidently will support a double-din mount of whatever you want, so you could add that without much issue.

Presuming reasonable access to channels to cable and mount speakers, I'm a huge fan of this facet of things.

I would like to see a couple of integration points, steering wheel controls and EV battery state/range estimates fed to the navigation like you get with other EVs and android auto, but no need to be as heavy handed as other platforms.

Unfortunately for my situation, it would lose out handily if a competitor had a midgate. I rarely need a substantial bed and usually need the seating, but it looks like it won't be easy to free up your bed if you have the seats in. Also subjecting the rear passengers to coming in by the front door.

If slate had a 4 door pickup with midgate to get longer bed, and maybe 20 inches or so longer to have that same bed even with rear seats available, I'd strongly consider it.

You do know that if the immune system got confused about virus versus cells hijacked to replicate viral material, we would have been dead pretty much the first second you got exposed to a virus? This is what a virus does. The difference is the virus produces material that will re-infect cells, while the mRNA resultant material is not self-replicating.

You also know that we had *billions* of people use mRNA vacinne and autoimmune problems weren't even vaguely a concern, and it was effective?

It's taking shape: Basic life may actually be quite common. Naked apes typing on keyboards on a digital network they built themselves not so much.

The rare earth and rare advanced intelligent life theories just got some extra weight.

... in Europe is roughly 5 degrees centigrade above worst case scenarios projected for the year 2050 back in 2016. Germany will likely crack the 40 degree mark in multiple locations at the end of this week. Once again a new heat record. I personally expect this to only get more intense in the next years until perhaps the gulf stream completely shuts down.

These are cascading effects kicking in and ramping up. It wouldn't stop if the planet went net-zero carbon tomorrow. So we're pretty f*cked, as predicted ever since 1970. I'm curious how hard though. Guess we'll find out soon.

... in some parts, contains bucketloads of over-the-top excess trivia in others and has sections that are flat-out provably false. If the sections chiefs don't think an article is important, they delete it. That's why poets important to the development of a language and culture sometimes don't even have an entry, let alone more that 3 lines while some third-grade rapper that made some noise 10 years back has an essay with 10 000 words covering every detail of their private life.

I've seen flat-out bullshit on wikipedia more than once, I've corrected some things, roughly 30% get rolled back. If an area of expertise has asshole/dimwitt chief editors (or whatever they are called in wikipedia-speak) I often just give up and don't bother.

Wikipedia is a reflection of our times and what's important to us. And it should be viewed as such. With a pound of salt.

Two words: Government contracts.

... won't be spared. I'm down 20k from my last salary and with AI my productivity has risen 5x. On to of that, the processes I was supposed to automate with code are getting replaced by AI themselves.

Prepare for incoming.

They say two things, one is that folks don't know how to deal with a released person:
"Their case manager may need to consult a dozen or more paper files or databases to learn whether they were convicted of a violent offense, if they require mental-health medications, if they can stay with family or need housing, and which vocational and educational programs they may have taken, among other factors."

The other:
"Not only would a more-efficient system help released inmates get the support they need, it could highlight who is likely to offend again after release."

So sounds like making more informed parole decisions?

Looking up a nuclear plant near me, the sustained power output is about a gigawatt.

Roughly looking up peak theoretical solar for a farm that could sit in the same footprint, it touches *maybe* 500 MW under impossibly ideal conditions.

Power density story is rough.

Further, the latitude causes some challenges seasonally for solar.

See, they found a way to get the support of the ones profitting from it.

The story makes pretty clear that they've been working this a long while, before at least the current hyped LLM was available.

To the extent "AI" might even play a role given their timeline, it was stuff that was pretty useless. People tried unleashing machine learning on these sorts of records and it just didn't do much.

Sounds like it's just a run at modernizing records keeping and access, which is fine.

... to my AI metasubscription now. AI does what I ask it to do, I just review the changes and commit. It's like having a personal team of 10-20 experts sitting in a chat just ready to do my bidding. It's not sitting but it doesn't feel like that too often yet.

However it's quite staggering to watch am AI so your job an order of magnitude better than yourself. And that for a bunch of software stacks a human couldn't dream to comprehend. It's also sobering to watch the value-add chains I'm supposed to automate with code being voided entirely by AI. Not only is my job gone, the context with which it makes sense is also rapidly vanishing. You should see the look on the face of the lawyers I work with when the realize how AI does away with them too.

I'm very likely going to leave my current team. I'm in the process of leaving classic Web software development as a day job. ... You guys can't imagine how glad I am not having just software and the Web as my only field of experience and expertise.