So you're acknowledging that cowboys who slap things into a production system are the problem?

Got it.

I take it you haven't used AI at all recently. It's absolutely amazing how many people haven't even got a clue how AI works and give it a false equivalency of a stackoverflow copypasta bot. Sorry, no. It hasn't been that bad for at least a year.

Nobody considered the metaverse inevitable. That's false equivalency.

The truth is that AI is inseparable from business, at this point. It's just like "cloud": an irritating buzzword with a lot of trumped up buzz, but a meaningful and appreciated advancement which isn't going away.

The neophytes just haven't caught up, yet.

Pretty accurate conveyance of what most slashdotters are these days. It's not like it was back in the day...

What's "snake oil" about it? And what kind of people consider this "insightful" and not a troll?

Would you consider a facility producing clean water and power (like a nuclear desalination facility) to be "snake oil"? You know: things which are in high demand and improve the lives of many. No, AI isn't clean water or power (and it does use those things). But it is akin to a revolutionary change, like the steam engine, or the Sterling engine, which completely changed the face of industry in a very short period of time.

If you haven't used AI in a meaningful way in the past, oh, 6 months, you should rightfully consider your opinion invalid on this topic. I know it's popular, particular with "real programmers" to make these hubristic statements, but there's no truth in it. It's usually those most heavily steeped in the old ways of doing things who have the hardest time with new things.

The same was true 6 months ago. The field has changed a lot, with breakthrough changes almost daily - so much so that just keeping track of everything released is an exercise in and of itself, nevermind testing it. I have hardware set aside just to do that, and there's often a 2-3 day queue.

Personally, I do hold it against people if they're not significantly using AI at this point. It's a self-enforced personal limitation in capabilities. You still have to work, but it's hard to argue against the economics of it: a single developer can 10x output with ease, and the quality is significantly better than most developers can produce. It speeds architectural design significantly and improves associated outcomes, even when you know what you're doing. It helps identify faults.

Even outside the domain of programming it's a game changer in many ways, though we're just now only starting to get to the point where those capabilities can be realized.

The AI industry is much larger than just OpenAI and Anthropic. There are many other companies doing useful, meaningful work aside from just selling tokens - including local inference and open model initiatives. It's useful to keep that in mind. This technology isn't going away anytime soon.

Contractor grade spec house asphalt roof shingles. If I was to replace it and planned to stay here during retirement I'd go steel. But I don't plan to stay here so I'm hoping to get out before it's a thing.

Kind of getting that impression, yes. Maybe I'm missing something, but there's only one celebrity who I consider to be in any way influential in AI, and that's only because he has a second career as POTUS and could cause all sorts of regulatory roadblocks if he wants to. Otherwise, celebrities might encourage AI adoption, but that doesn't make you an AI leader. It makes you a promoter/marketer.

The playbooks are written. Trump opened the flood gates of an already flooded region. We now are ruled by executive decree alone. The next president will do the same and congress will be toothless. Newsom is already emulating Trump like behavior in his child like social media trolls. He's likely to be the democratic candidate. Who will replace Trump? Vance? Objectively worse as he's young enough to double down on the behavior.

The future is just social media trolling, presidential decrees that last an administration, continuing budget resolutions for 3 months at a time, and constant debt. If we are lucky at best they manage to do nothing.

I also live in an area where contractors exploit the fact you live here. Basically if you leave this litltle mcmansion area your quotes will go down at least 15%. I recently wanted to remodel my bathroom. Cheapest quote? 65k. Ended up learning to lay tile myself.

New forced air HVAC with natural gas heat and AC? Cheapest quote? 29k. It's like they see the area and just bump the price.

The companies that do the solar don't install roofing for some reason. The quote for the solar (I think it was 25kw and I think dual inverter) was about 37k before batteries. There were also some technical issues electrically at the time which may no longer be true 4 years later which was that the batteries couldn't handle some household items so I'd need to place them on a second panel to tolerate electrical outages.

On top of that my state has ended net metering so excess energy can only be given for free to the power company. There are also connection minimums so even if you are 100% solar during a summer month you are still on the hook for $20. It's a fairly hostile place for solar even if it's a good place to actually have it. The county has passed a lot of ordiances to prevent any large scale projects from being built citing 'environmental damage'.

The better play is to wait for retirement, build/buy a smaller home and at that time ensure it's solar. If I need to handle power outages in the mean time a natural gas generator would be far cheaper and easier.

Yes, but the party system means you basically have two ever worsening choices. There is no return to normalcy, This is the new normal. The next president will be just a bit worse than Donald Trump. The president after that just a bit worse. Because you are not voting for a person. You are voting for a winner take all the other side is evil poltical party.

They don't give you a choice, not really. You pick the face, the party picks the plan. Trump is a useful idiot for advancing the goals of the GOP. Biden was the same for democrats. This isn't a centrist viewpoint because I do think there is one evil better than another and I vote for every single election. If I have to choose between being punched in the face or punched in the dick I'm not going to say "Well both spots are on the body so neither is worse".

I'd love to have full roof solar. The studies they have ran show it would handle 110% of my daily power needs in the summer. The problem. My roof is from 2008 and will probably need to be replaced in 5-7 years. Because of the high pitch of the roof I have about 4700sq feet of roof. That's about $40,000 right there in my area. Add solar and we are nearing 6 figures.

I know I'll downsize in retirement, unless the pay back is 10 years it makes no sense for me. Today's market doesn't value the solar panels on the roof so that money is a sunk cost.

The next most rational alternative, MuKLinux, could be problematic for Greek reasons as well. :-D (mu = micro)

[*waves at another old friend*]

See subject.

It's probably worth clarifying that this was done by Tim Cook in his previous job as senior VP of operations, and was long complete by the time he became CEO. But yes.

I review all PRs no different than if you made a PR to me. Like a human made PR I also provide feedback and gate keep what makes it to production.