... offline capable and redo E-Mail with default encryption and signatures. And in a universal time tick of 3 hours for message passing and updates.

Problem(s) solved.

... and it's still a really useful and powerful tool. Truly impressive IMHO.

The benchmarks already show its faster, throttled or not. So your comment is a big whatever.

When corporations do this it's usually the first step in a major overhaul. The last to go will not get treated so politely, they'll be kicked out.

It's simple logic. I can't provide real value-add as a regular developer or IT expert anymore. AI is good enough in most cases. At the same time we're experiencing a demographic collapse. This means that people are becoming more valuable, not less. The Nash equilibrium of a society banking on this sort of automation is somewhere beyond a fertility crisis and the collapse of culture. The only winning move is to exit the industry, I'm not needed here anymore. I'm currently looking for ways to go back closer to performing arts that I did in the 90ies using my extensive IT skills as a cultural technique rather than a job.

That's what's irrational. Comcast goes down more often than Trump says "Bigly". It's constant complete, no signal outages. They can last minutes or hours. You want to charge big rates? Have big reliability.

... Anti-Matter Grenades?

Pretty much this.

AFAICT and have heard the cascading climate change effects have already been kicked loose. The planets albedo (it's ratio of reflection) has already dropped into a feedback loop that will only accelerate things. We can kiss our glaciers goodbye and the dutch will likely have to find a new place to stay within this century. As some island nations already have to know.

It's it a guzzling Harley or something with 7+ liters per 100km? Or a SuperCub with 1.5 liters? The latter would be somewhat acceptable IMHO. The former not.

... cybersecurity: .Net C# and Java.

*Dadum* *Crash* *Thud*

Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week.

... I hope this move doesn't screw it up.

For the uninformed: Deno is basically the "new" official non-shitty successor to Node.js. It's secure (closed) by default, supports TypeScript natively without the need for transpilation, has the full browser API on the server side and comes with a bunch of neat other features that turn Jamstack development from the bloated and fickle shit-show that is Node into a chill walk in the park. I've been using it exclusively for a few years now and have come to avoid Node.js like the plague for real world deployment.

The new Xiami 18 Fold is probably still available and is basically the exact same shell hardware build.
And AFAICT it's cheaper and better in the specs. Which was to be expected.

Gotta envy Apple though, how much they got their fan crowd under control. Pretty impressive IMHO.

But Claude has to ask permission, has to be granted permission, and I can remove that permission with a mouse click.

That said, I find it incredible what it's able to do with those tabs, and equally horrifying.

I've more than once asked it to demonstrate how to do a function in something like Canva or other web apps and it quickly shows me the ropes. I've asked it to search online databases on my behalf and watch it find answers in seconds that would have taken me 20-30 minutes.

But... now I wonder if it's opening my browser while I sleep and participating in the T800 designs.

I hate to do this to you... but you'll need more like 50 to 60K. A fully spec'd currently available unit is $18,700 for a single studio. Two of them together is $37400. So you can be sure the 512GB unit will be significantly more than this.

You seem quite naive about the complexity of software (and hardware for that matter) stacks at companies of this size. You're also naive about the amount of legacy software (and hardware) that these companies must maintain.

1000 contractors. Let that sink in for a minute my friend. That's 2.08 million hours of labor annually. How big do you think an ecosystem would be that would need that many hours of CONTRACT (ie extra) labor???