I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.

I spend quite a bit on Discord server services, but I'm out.

GFY, Discord and governments, for mandating this bullshit nonsense.

Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.

Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.

Tax funded?

Not private property anymore.

These effects could be real and irrefutable, and yet time and again we see that bright sunlight has equal or greater effects to these levels. Indeed, many environmental exposures, natural or not (perfumes, dyes, exhaust, smoke, nearly every volatile compound) can disrupt cellular behavior. Plastics and plasticizers can disrupt hormonal reactions, especially in a fetus. These new correlations in the article do not include cellular microwaves because they don't rise to a level that exceeds other influences. One must read the details. But hey if you think TV EMF, Cellular Microwaves, appliances or even transformer coils and other electromagnetic sources are the largest culprit, publish some quantified measurements and you'll have your day in debate. I dont need to refute anything because there's no quantifiable claim you make.

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

Nah.

Iâ(TM)m 51. Iâ(TM)ve had health insurance continuously for 35 years and have used it exactly ZERO TIMES.

I am self pay. For everything but true life threatening emergencies, which Iâ(TM)ve had zero.

Even the ER is cheaper when negotiated self pay.

My urologist is stunned that I pay $85 for his visits. Self pay. Including labs. My colleague goes to the same urologist and his insurance pays $550 for the same visit and naturally it comes out of his deductible lol.

Insurance is a scam. All insurance is legal gambling and gamblers never win.

Supply and demand dictate this is exactly the case.

If something is valuable to everyone, it should only be accessible to those who have enough saved value to acquire it.

The poor fucked themselves. My parents are poor but worked hard so I wouldn't be.

Being compensated for it means it wonâ(TM)t get wasted and will always have a fair valuation.

Compensation is as cooperative as it comes because nobody can hoard it.

It would be amazing if there was a document that stated in very clear terms just how limited our federal government is and what it can't do at all no matter what.

Everyone I know who makes my equivalent AGI, except for my household, has 1+ dogs, work crazy hours, and have been told that their dogs are lonely and depressed.

Not one or two people.

EVERYONE. Dozens upon dozens of my clients, colleagues, peers, friends from grade school, etc, have a dog or two, and then they have to have someone come spend time with said dog when they're putting 10+ hours away from them.

Wag/Rover/etc is part of their crazy consumer spending. I always am shocked to hear they're spending $1000 a month on their pets.

Americans are insane about their pets. Instead of buying a dog, I invest in corporate veterinary hospitals, because it's crazy profitable.

"good coding" was in service to concepts like bug fixing, feature enhancement, transferrability or documentation. What if all that was tossed, as the code was no longer even read? Just results-oriented output, checked against other solution paths? It may be that foundational work continues while LLM's generate the software that nobody reads directly, just like we don't check the solder joints on the parts, we exoect them to work and review only the results. "Coding" might be a narrower band of training models to encapsulate discrete functions that serve a purpose, while Product Development is orchestrating code generators to create a machine hardware+software, without looking under the hood at all.

Which aspect? Hardware drivers? OS schedulers? Language designers? Shader code? I think you might be underestimating the actual scope of what digital machines cover. From examples like SCADA to FPGA to Kernal Routine to Office macro to Game Engine - computer science has an incredibly large discipline space. Think of the science as so young that we're jumping from wheelbarrow to Cat 798 each decade. A decade from now perhaps we'll simply be schooling LLM's on the standards of your personal project, not really coding. The issues will be reigning in the models' erratic tendencies, not checking indents and variable names. They won't need to write in a "language" you recognize.

What skills does that cover in your opinion?

Problem-splitting, and solution splitting are good skills, yes. But the choice of division-lines in those splits - and when - become more and more important. Parameterization, DRY, Optimization, can all become a ruthless taskmaster for no important reason, way too early in solutions. Test cases can be drafted too late, too myopically. Documentation and transferrability never even arrive at the table. Decomposition should begin with the Why and What Problem Are We Solving. "To build anything, one must first make a universe" isn't entirely wrong, so modelling the problem & solution space just enough to get a result is also necessary. I find devs are typically thinking of a conveyor belt of narrow-field mini problems, and pulling LLM python code snippets together to achieve a too-quickly-decided overall solution. That overall somution is the big think, really. It can be much more illustrative to contemplate a realm of Userland in V.amazing, then scale it backward to a few simple cases. No need to even design for future concepts, as wholesale refactors are a great cleanse. Once a Computer Scientist sees the real-world arc of a productized system, they (can) discern the useful work vs the deck-chair-arranging that wastes time. And accept that everyone will get a few things wrong, so that wrong isnt the problem, just moving too slowly to correct and keep going.