door-to-door public transport is a great way to have traffic jams and make personal transportation an expensive privilege that makes some key people a lot of money. Worse for individuals than leasing a vehicle in terms of cost and control.

I brought two of my neglected fruit trees back to production. I'll be doing some grafts for the others next next.
I found out that I need a lot more deer proof fence to make a go at growing tomatoes and kale. Very little survived these hoofed vermin.

100% agree with you. And I think the companies that figure out that you could take the same number of employees but have them using better tools are going to be the winners in the long wrong. Using AI to be more productive, shortening development cycles, etc is kind of the point, but real metrics and cost-benefit analysis needs to be done continually in any company adopting new technology. If it's not paying off, then don't do it. And I firmly believe that cutting large number of staff is the wrong optimization, being smaller is the opposite of growth. And in this industry, growth is success (in multiple dimensions)

Yea, there is a huge lack of understanding of what it's for. It's not a search engine or a program launcher. But on the other hand you can ask it (Glean, copilot, whatever) something like "Look for internal docs on XYZ and summarize. Note any discrepancies between sources. And cite your sources."

I find LLMs useful to make a workflow for doing some task. Like instead of asking it to generate tables, I have it generate a script that generates tables. Because I have on MANY occasions seen Claude Opus and others spit out tables of data with subtle errors in it. And while I usually have success when I ask it to review the tables it just generated, it has been much better at reviewing a small script's correctness than large tables of data.

Luckily I didn't claim it was replacing software engineers. Although it is a huge force multiplier for us. Docs, execution roadmaps, code reviews, security audits, benchmarking, trouble shooting, and writing boiler plate code. I think a good portion of my peers have been already using this tech for the last 2 years. We would have stopped using it if it didn't work at all, and it seems to be improving all the time.

For non software engineering jobs, which I think is where we're near the break even point on full employee replacement. Getting a system that can usefully answer help desk does exist, but it is expensive to run. Offering a inferior experience with a much cheaper AI is already possible and being done today.

Practically speaking. Getting one experience QA engineer to direct an army of agents at directed and ad hoc testing is already happening. So those entry level QA jobs that many of us used to get our foot in the door into the software industry are not going to be available (sending those jobs over seas already made them an unreliable route for most of us in the West)

maybe partly, but the reality I know as someone who reads a lot of penetration testing reports, is big supposedly mature organizations end up putting useful credentials (as in not just some QA mock enviornment nobody cares about in CI/CD stuff) in their git commits, all the freaking time.

Cloud security is a s*** show a lot of places, even places with mostly capable people, it only takes one idiot or one careless person to really mess things up badly. That is the problem with PaaS/SaaS model generally.

Except it absolutely is Embrace-Extend...

It is embrace Linux, just so long as your are running it on their compute...It is extend Linux,they have already used their influence to stuff all manor of rather cloud-specific tooling into systemd, and successfully crammed that stack down on the broader community.

Finally it is extinguish in the software freedom sense the GNU side of GNU/Linux always cared about. Unless your are like beyond careful about every component you use, every bit of tooling you chose, and every other architecture decision you make the odds of anyone not a large enterprise being able to shift their application from Azure to some other cloud or their own compute/hosting is low. If you really do go the truly cloud agnostic route, you'll be giving up a lot of the value add features of the platform and paying a higher bill at the same time.

The only thing slowing down adoption of AI is that usable AI costs slightly more than a full-time employee. In 2026 there is no cost savings in replacing your work force with ML/AI systems, although AI can be a work multiplier in some industries allowing for increases in productivity. We're already seeing the cooling off on the hiring of new college grads for engineering and tech. An old timer can steer several agent projects at once versus training up a junior software developer. The immediate benefits are obvious, but long-term it's a disaster. Because I can only babysit so many agents at once, and I'll be walking out of the industry soon, with conceivably fewer people to take my place.

As for the current layoffs? Nothing to do with AI at all. No increase in profit is profitable if you layoff your staff and "replace" them with AI, because the numbers simply don't add up. Maybe in a year or two it adds up. But right now, we're seeing companies cutting reoccurring expenses (like payroll) in order to prepare for economic downturn or recession. The tech industry is going into a stealth sleep mode, we've painted eyes onto our eyelids or put on dark sunglasses, and the rest of the class still hasn't caught on that we're taking a nap.

AI will be running finance too, so aim for manual skills that can feed your family or work in a barter economy.

I don't disagree but the problem is identifying when we jumped the shark. Which I think happened damn near 100 years ago now when the SCOTUS blinked and let a lot of the New Deal happen.

We have now gone so long without 'keeping up with Amendments' in terms of actually enabling the Federal government to do so much of what American's of all political stripes currently view as good/necessary/appropriate it is really difficult to take "Textualism" to the logical destination it really ought to be taken. The 'soft textualism' we get from current conservative wing of the court is probably the best we can really hope for.

If you really for example did a legitimate read of the 9th and 10th amendments, probably half or more of Federal laws are unconstitutional or at least could not be applied to 90% of the instances they are. It would break our society...

This is real problem people who immediately shut down conversations around national divorce, or moving toward greater State level sovereignty as in letting people start thinking of themselves more as "Virginians, Floridians, New Yorkers", etc rather than "Americans" can't accept. We let a 80 years of sloth and neglect pass by as far rigorously applying the Constitution and using the Amendment process for real rather than feel good issues like Senate elections, and as far as keeping the American experiment on course, I am not sure you can get there from here now.

Let's break this down. Setting aside your particular moral views on any of the issues you just mentioned, you basically said people should ignore issues of morality and vote based on what is good for them economically. This is what a lot of mean when we say the political left are not 'good people'. It isnt even about any specific position what it comes down to is you really don't care or value 'goodness' it is ONLY about what you get personally in terms of wealth and security, and ideally in your minds at the expense of everyone else.

If we listened you rsilvergun, chattel slavery would still be a feature of the American economy. You'll deny it of course, and you'll agree salvery is bad but only because parroting some accepted social/moral position is means to end. The entire moral panic is a project too, I mean seriously WTF do think the act of calling everyone who disagrees with you bigots, Nazi's, etc is?

Face it when you look deep in side and ask the hard questions of yourself, you'll find you're really terrible person as are the people you defend and support politically.

"Computer brief me on $subject" is very cool, at least if you had some degree of faith in correctness.

Briefings are by definition going to contain some over simplifications. Something like Marketplace's "Make me smart" is probably a good format for audio to be consumed while doing something physical driving, laundry, splitting logs, cutting the lawn etc..

They patched it rapidly only to have a very similar vulnerability affecting the very same components drop like a day later.

Arguably the patching effort lacked real analysis, that should have been triggered, and got pushed out with the first obvious fix applied. On the other hand leaving users with only the option to implement a workaround that disables ipsec while a full fix is investigated, is also a problem...

I am not criticizing anyone here, disclosure vs time to patch, and regression avoidance in complex software systems is a difficult problem. While it speaks to things like code quality and security priority, I don't think when it comes to large software projects you can really charaterize either of those things with a methodolgy that amounts SELECT COUNT(*) FROM cve WHERE project = ....

What rubbish.

You must be one of those uneducated because in terms of most of things you mention there kids today have it better than almost all children throughout history, with possibly the narrow exception of those of us lucky enough to be born between the end of WWII and maybe 2001 in the USA anyway.

For anything you wrote there to be sensible we'd have to assume that the above cohort is the only mentally health group of children in most of history.. LOL

There are stupid posts, and there are rsilvergun stupid posts, this is one of the latter an amazingly it isnt even an rsilvergun post...

Even if true - irrelevant.

Why because even in the most affluent districts we still see a long term decline in academic performance. The only conclusion that can be support is driver of our education problems is not 'spending'

This complete bullshit. I have multiple teachers in the family. First through third year teachers work a lot. After that you mostly just refresh stuff a little bit at a time.

As to your whole Vietnam fairy tail also nonsense, but cause it completely neglects the demand side of the equation. It is not like any little town or burg anywhere just build some more schools and added classrooms because there was glut of teachers on the market. Honestly the stuff you post here, is fucking retarded dude, it does not pass even the basic smell test, let alone 10 seconds of google research anyone can do because they are already accessing a website.

So now we return to teacher pay... No you won't get rich, but you get incredible job security, summers off, and PTO during the year, generally solid benefits, and also a very average salary on an hourly basis using actual school days + required in service days. Is that a compensation structure that is ideal for every house hold, possibly not, but that is NOT the same saying they are under paid, in terms of career and time investment vs market value of total compensation.