our team has broadly switched over for 90% of all code writing. all small changes, all minor updates, and all exploratory work is done via AI 100%. When we get to production deployed code, its up and down (mostly up) that AI can write solid, working code, but the more complex the task, the more important measure is who prompts the AI.

Detailed, longwinded prompts that really restrict and direct the coding task precisely seems to allow nearly no human coding to be done. But that requires our best software architects to sit down for a couple hours and really work out a precise prompt, which involves having the knowledge and skills to not just code the project end to end, but also to precisely determine what you want coded at the outset. no throwing pasta at the wall to see if it sticks.

Our junior folks struggle with this because they don't normally have a clear vision of exactly what they want coded and the final architecture until they are halfway through the task. we are obviously seeing this with efficiency as well (tokens/task completed). But they are learning quite a bit quicker.

It doesnt' require that. If there is a certain amount of time it takes to transition, you still start and finish that transition 15 years faster. The lives saved aren't quite as many becasue as more people use self-driving cars you end up safer on average (fewer wrecks because a lot of times it takes 2 to tango).

Even in this case, the edge case was caused by a human driver, not the automated system. So to some extent, without real world testing, we can't get self-driving cars to function during that transition period. The space of crazy possibilities just goes up when you mix self-driving and human drivers.

Yeah, when you think back to the eighties and the ubiquitous Norton Utilities, unerase and commander, it's weird that they eventually morphed into stuff like this.

I choose to believe IRLRosie is the real Alexa. Not that she is, I just like that reality better.

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a few years ago, that was exactly Zuckerberg's point. Multiple reports said he did not want to be the decider of what was right or wrong, true or false. He didn't want to have to make a ruling. And then slowly but surely people kept pointing out that they had a moral obligation to stop hate speech, to stop violent speech, to stop dangerous speech, to censor things people didn't politically like. It's just all the early instances were in other countries (i.e. not the west). Everyone was sure no western leader would cross that line. And whoops, it happened and how they were forced to first create loopholes (he is newsworthy so hate speech is ok), and then finally to just apply the rules we asked them to create.

just so you know, bank bailouts were under Bush, Obama did (most) of the car manufacturer bailouts.

I used to always think that was the obvious answer about sex crimes, and then the horrors of the catholic church kind of opened my eyes that there are lots of answers that are regularly right and not the obvious one.

So what youâ(TM)re telling me is that employees might have different political interests than their senior executives?

Wow we ought to write that down or something.

You can usually see which laptops use 18650s, by the shape of the case. Pick a laptop, and search Amazon for replacement batteries.

I strip the 18650s out of laptops for other uses. It's just cheaper that way. It usually works out to about $1 for each 18650, including the occasional bad battery.

Thin squares, like the MacBook Pro have, are different. It's pretty obvious that an 18650 wouldn't fit in it.

Built in batteries are more likely to be flat square or rectangle types. You're SOL for replacing those with a pack of 18650s.

I only strip them down for their cells. I suppose if you're *real* careful, you could cut the case open, and be able to reseal it. There are temperature sensors inline, that you'll want to keep. and you'll need to solder the new ones together. They're typically spot welded. And, obviously, you'll need to keep the original control board. ... or just buy a replacement pack on Amazon or eBay. When the batteries die in the laptops I use, I don't try to remanufacture them. While I could do the parts cheap, the labor would exceed the cost of the replacement pack.

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Yeah, youâ(TM)re right, the sensible first response to âoehey, sexism is kinda prevalent and also badâ is âoeI bet those females are lyingâ.

Well done. Good job.

Ya, that's exactly what it sounds like.

You'd think that someone along the way would have said "Hey, these run too hot, lets improve the cooling before these ship".

Lemme guess...you have never seen a comic book.

Damned kids. We flipped through 5 static filled stations, and were happy with it!

Isn't this the beginning of Stephen King's "The Stand"? Well, see y'all in Vegas.