Why was this downvoted?

I mean that as a legit question: I thought the coward accurately described Tesla's self-driving promise ... but I'm no Tesla expert, so what's wrong about his take?

On another note, we got back to the DC metro area yesterday from Chicago in our plug-in hybrid minivan. Last gas was around Cambridge, OH, and no battery charge. Got home, about 315 mi, coming through the mountains... with half a tank of gas left, and the panel tells me 115 mi of that was on (regenerated) electric.

Who was it that noted, in a widely-read book, that said that "lines of code" is a terrible guideline as to whether the purpose was achieved?

I can write a very long program to do the exact same thing I can do in a fraction of that many lines. But then, the managers who think that lines of code == production think they're paying us by the line.

That valuation is not at all a crazy if you think Anthropic has a key new technology, that will be wildly in demand in the future, with a business "moat" to help protect it (eg. a huge % of market share from being the first mover, or a set of government regulations that only it and maybe 1-2 companies can navigate) ...

... and if you think Anthropic still has that, over halfway in to 2026 ... well then actually I guess you are crazy.

Good luck to Anthropic's IPO investors ... they will need it.

this!!! I can see as they travel down the road the ground is extremely bright, then as they approach a downhill or go over speed bumps, it angles up and then blasts everything in front of the car with blinding light. It's like you can see the whole neighborhood light up during the half-second they're going up the bump, then there's a little rebound glow after they pass it.

When approaching these cars from the downhill, you can see the glow way ahead of the car's arrival.

Right. The "massive" ballot fraud MAGA keeps harping about but can never show any proof. The "fraud" that is so prevelant, even Republican states can't show it.

People won't forget how utterly delusional Republicans are. After all, they elected and are defending a pedophile.

Life has existed and indeed thrived greatly in warmer climates than this.

Depends on your definition of a warmer climate. It's not always that way.

Maybe the real end of the world, if Trump reacts badly enough.

He's already scheming with his election deniers he's installed to thwart the midterm election by seizing ballots.

And by disaster, they mean a blue wave sweeping across the country and driving out Republicans.

Kinda like a /. post.

After all, women go for more decidely female-related professions such as female doctor, female surgeon, female attorney, or female director.

Of course the AI versions would get paid less.

An AI ultra-lint finds some vulnerabilities, so what does management do?
They have another AI they rented "fix" the vulnerabilities it knows about.

And soon, no human can know and work reliably on the code.
Management poured money into the initiative, and will not be proven wrong:
"AI found what humans didn't, so AI has proven to be a better 'programmer' than any human.'

Sure, something small isn't a big deal for a pro, but a code base significant enough
to undergo the expense of this process and then set the CIO's hair on fire,
say, the access permissions system for a major bank,
will soon be pwned by the AI vendor, forever more.

The first step is "AI, write this". It was easy, it worked, it's magical. You inspect the code, it's not bad.
The next step (because why do it yourself now?), is "AI, extend the thing you wrote", and it does it.
You test it, it works ok, maybe you glance at the code this time, maybe not.
New requirements come down, and you try tossing the AI the raw requirements and it
poots out a thing good enough to pass QA.
This time, you don't look at the code at all. Why bother?

And now, the AI owns the code base, and your organization is forever captive.
This is happening, at scale, everywhere, right now.
Good plan, frat boys. Enjoy your bonuses. The won't last much longer.

With permanent DST we won't get the stories twice a year.

You are correct, but they are following a model pioneered by private equity firms. From Gemini:

Broadcom operates a public business model heavily inspired by private equity strategies ...

Let me be clear: Broadcom did not buy VMWare to go into the virtualization business!

They bought them with the following plan:

1. Jack up the prices (by an insane amount) while reducing costs in extreme ways
2. Most customers are large enterprise users: they will change eventually ... but it will take the time, and in the meantime they will pay
3. Eventually everyone leaves VMWare ... but Broadcom (or rather the people behind it) have already pocketed enough from step #2 to pay for acquiring VMWare in the first place, plus a profit
4. VMWare, even with few/no customers, still has tons of assets like real estate: you liquidate all that and now you've made a massive profit over what it cost to buy VMWare

This was not some secret: it's a playbook Broadcom has used on acquisitions before. Maintaining a virtualization company was never their goal: it was to make money fleecing the company's corpse.

I don't think that makes the document any less your own than having a human copy editor conduct a similar review which has been done since forever.

Which is what I've been saying as well. If all you're doing is asking for suggestions to something you have already written, using AI is no different than using a human editor. It's your work. It's been written. You're just looking for advice on how to improve it.

This is completely different than people who tell AI what they want and it does all the work.