That's not my experience at all. The complexity of my instructions still depends on the complexity of the task, but recent versions can do FAR more than write CRUD boilerplate.

1. How much of Proton's code is security-critical? I would bet less than 1%. The rest is UI and CRUD. 2. Did you see how complex the vulnerabilities that AI has discovered were?

"stop lovingly handcrafting all our code" - Lol, that really sounds like a clash of cultures. But I am mostly on the CEO's side. I feel more and more like a product manager. Opus 5.5 has become so good that I often only take a glance at the code before accepting it. At the beginning of the year, it was more like "add this function to this file, write test cases for it that cover x and y". These days, I increasingly just describe what I want, and only give minimal short hints of how I want it, and it turns out to be just perfect. It identifies and handles corner-cases that I haven't even thought of. There may be a market for "lovingly handcrafted code", just like there is a market for handcrafted carpets or sweaters. But I don't think it's very big.

Ever since I read Accidental Empires as a kid I knew that I wanted to work at a startup (or even found one) and live in Silicon Valley. That didnâ(TM)t really work out, even though I havenâ(TM)t fully given up yet (except the Silicon Valley part). I probably wouldnâ(TM)t be on Slashdot without him. Over the last decades I enjoyed his blogs, looked forward every year to his bold prediction, and was entertained by the crazy (but not successful) startups we he worked on. This year I was thrilled that he started blogging again, only to be shocked that even more terrible things have happened to him (heart attack, stroke and death of this son), and surprised that he was an ex-neighbour of and friends with Avram Miller, who writes an awesome blog I discovered to is year. RIP Bob. You will be missed.

I think you got the timeline wrong. IT work is technically easy to replace because a lot of their output can be achieved using APIs that usually already exist. The work itself may be more complex, but the integration isn't. But it's different for, say, a bookkeeper. They may have to deal with things like paper receipts, or do phone calls. You need to be able to digitize input and output for those jobs. That's the difficult and time-consuming part. But once you've done this, these jobs are far easier for a LLM to execute. That's why I think these jobs are even more at risk of being replace, but it will take years to digitize the whole pipeline.

Human customer services gets it wrong at times and someone needs to fix it :)

Is this the same OpenClaw on which a major vulnerability was recently discovered that allowed websites to take over your machine? The same OpenClaw whose stack comes with a list of remote execution and access control vulnerabilities?

Typical for Microsoft to do a lousy job of vetting their tool chain.

I'll pass.

The solution to Windows turning into a marketing device and personal information vacuum: Linux Desktop.

Let the flame wars commence. My personal preference is Linux Mint. I've been using it on my desktop workstation and my laptop for the last 6 years with zero complaints. I have Windows VMs (VMWare and KVM) that I use for software development, but when one of them goes stupid thanks to Windows updates or general Windows OS stupidity, I just roll it back to the last weekly snapshot. But all my personal computing and the running of my business happens on Linux.

Apple sucks compared to Android. The hardware is antiquated before Apple can get it onto the shelves, and yet they charge a premium for the little Apple logo. And then there's the app store, with a smaller audience, less choice, and Apple robbing both the creators and the consumers.

From the outside, all I can do is order another bag of popcorn and watch Apple users pay a tax for being stupid.

100%.

A little over 5 years ago, when it came time to build a new desktop machine, the number of hours/days lost to recovering broken VMs, lost files, jacked up drivers, etc., due to Microsoft updates was the deciding factor in making the move to Linux. I chose Mint because I wanted simple install experience and a familiar GUI layout. I haven't regretted it once. I run Windows (various versions) in VMs if I need to for software development, but the host is Linux.

That worked out so well that, when a Windows update killed the sound drivers on my laptop and could not be fixed, I installed the latest Mint, dual boot, and I haven't had a problem since. When my daughter bugged me to give her my old laptop, I installed Mint on that as well, showed her how to find and install software, and she's perfectly happy with it.

Why people put up with Microsoft's antics, I can't understand.

And here I am on my Linux Mint desktop workstation congratulating myself once again on my move to the Linux world SPECIFICALLY because Microsoft's updates kept screwing up my work environment.

First off, it was Turbo Pascal until version 4. Then it was Borland Pascal. BP 5.5 and 7.0 were incredibly easy to develop applications with. The beta diskettes that Delphi came out on were labeled "AppBuilder". And Delphi is still around, still being used. I know this because my primary development languages are Object Pascal, Java, Javascript, and C#. In fact, I picked up TP 3.01b in college and I've been using Pascal and Object Pascal ever since. I still have install disks for every version... in a box somewhere...

You can now develop for Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux using the same code base. It's amazing what it can accomplish right out of the box. While the world may have moved on and other languages are more popular thanks to Embarcadero's high price for the high end version of Delphi and it's dwindling development community, it's still an incredible development tool, and I say that as a contract programmer who, again, also develops in other languages.

So I find it funny that you refer to it as a coding dinosaur. I can develop applications from beginning to end quicker in that IDE than any other I've used. The language wasn't the reason Delphi didn't squash Microsoft's offerings. It's because Microsoft hired away all of Borland's senior developers, and after that Borland couldn't seem to find its footing, either in advancing its IDE or in its marketing.

Having said that, would I recommend Delphi to a company that was just starting up? No. Like I said, It's expensive and it's difficult to find developers with actual experience. But I know a number of large companies that are Delphi shops and cling loyally to the Delphi line of tools.

It's not dead yet.

Exactly what I was going to post. Musk has products and services he'd like to sell, and these pronouncements are based entirely on his desire to "actualize" his dreams of planet-buying wealth. We are more than capable of installing enough wind, solar, and wave power generation facilities to keep up with demand.