That is why the guy was at an on-ramp with a sign: "Will fix your printer for food". He has been there for 20 years !

Jees what. Excellent troll. Nightmare idea.

No, you may actually be correct. If there was a bias for people to be like you they would predominantly assume that people generally prefer to go to the right so they usually turn to the left. Which is the observed phenomena.

So the question is what do people do on their own. Do they explore an empty room clockwise or anticlockwise?

Please learn about the Luddite movement. It was not about stopping progress. It was about the appalling poor working conditions, minimal wages and exploitation of children working in the factories of the Industrial Revolution. It was about the huge concentration of wealth with the industrialists. Things were very dire for people for a 100 years. The Luddites were a start in asserting our rights to health and happiness and some share in the increased wealth the machines brought.

Does all that ring a bell for you in recent times? The Luddites were right.

By "trust" there I don't necessarily mean I would not let my best friend borrow a credit card if they really needed to. But that would be a temporary borrow, with good reason and I'd certainly check what happened afterward. My friends are great, they would not make such a request except in emergency or other very good reason.

Oh my f****ing God.

I would not trust my best friend with my credit card. Certainly not some devious company with an AI tool.

That is exactly why many people are boycotting American products as much as possible. That is why the EU is trying to ween itself of of American tech services. That is why Canada is restricting imports from America.

Americans had better take steps to preserve their democracy before it is too late.

You mean like all those US voters that elected Trump in large part because of his "no wars" promises? Looks like they lost control pretty quickly.

So what if it is actually an end to public contribution? Who said that all Open Source projects have to be open to code contributions by all and sundry random people?

>> There is an answer to disingenuous pull requests. That is doing the work to review the code before it's implemented.

Nice idea but we see many reports of Open Source projects being inundated with pull requests in recent times. Many AI generated garbage. It is not reasonable to expect the project developers to wade through all the slop.

LLMs interact with humans, thus also gaining lots of new bad training data. They also get trained on ever increasing amounts of AI slop thus potentially getting worse and worse.

Be aware that the Luddites were not all about being anti-technology. The main concern of the Luddites was exploitation of people in the factories and mines of the growing Industrial Revolution and the general state of poverty and misery it caused for most people while a few became incredibly wealthy. Things were pretty dire for a 100 years or so.

Does this sound familiar to you?

The Luddites were right.
   

This is simply not true. You cannot write C in such a way to perform all the memory safety and type checks that Rust does at compile time. That would require changing the C syntax and semantics. Fine idea, but if you do that then that new language will not be C any more and it will likely look like Rust.

If performance matters then Rust is perfectly fine. Rust generates code akin to that generated for C or C++. Heck it is using the same LLVM code generation as clang. We now this is true from many benchmarks comparing the languages and many real world examples.

I get it. A jump from about 300ppm to 400ppm sounds terrifyingly huge. Like 50% up.
Whereas it was actually an increase from about 0.03 percent, which is almost nothing, to 0.04 percent, which is still almost nothing. A change of only 0.01 percent.
Phew, nothing to worry about then.

If every company had your idea to never hire junior devs again, then in 10 or 20 years there will be no senior devs. Then companies will be left with mountains of AI generated software that nobody has the skills to work on any more.

I conclude that you are planning for your company to only be around for a few years. I hope your share holders are fully informed of your plans for the future of their money.