How will the automated ditch digger be sure to find and break the fiber cable?

I've heard the music that AI can produce. The run of the mill one hit pop stars are seriously endangered, but probably not actual musicians for fans with any level of sophistication (admittedly a smaller market).

Hand made guillotines are the future!

McDonald's already tried automation once and abandoned it.

If you try to print an entire gun, you'll most likely end up in the ER when you fire it. The plumbing aisle of the hardware store is much more relevant to preventing improvised guns.

That's the crux of it. We have a bunch of legislators squawking like frightened chickens about "printing guns" who don't realize that the essential parts that make it a gun can't be printed in plastic (unless you WANT to go have an ER physician pluck plastic bits out of your face).

Meanwhile, no regulation whatsoever on the plumbing aisle of your favorite hardware store where you can get parts for a useful improvised gun.

How is the K2 treating you? I'm thinking of getting one, the old Ender 3 is getting a bit dated.

It really isn't. The best and most employable will be the ones that get another job and jump ship. The deadwood will hang on but will trash morale because they're miserable.

They're stupid enough to have an AI agent delete their entire production database from the also vibe coded storage service that keeps the "backups" in the backed up volume (so no restore possible), AND has no concept of limiting auth tokens (all tokens are god mode) AND then deciding to continue vibe coding with the very same storage service.

It really is as bad as Bart Simpson repeatedly shocking himself on the electrified cupcake Lisa left out.

They thought instructing the AI to "make no mistakes" would prevent the problem.

But that *IS* a vibe coding problem.

The problem is bypassing the developer or trying to get the developer to not "waste time and effort" dealing with trivialities that "the AI can take care of".

That's right up there with the genius mode instruction "make no mistakes".

IIRC, that was done by one of the companies that had an AI agent delete the database.

I'm sure they're vibe coding as fast as they can!

An interesting aside to that though. Even your description was better than shortly before that when computer was a job title and the whole company depended on rooms full of people clacking away on mechanical adding machines. All of that got replaced at a tiny fraction of the cost.

Yet businesses that ran profitably for decades like that have now cut customer service to the bone, never reduced prices, and employee pay hasn't kept up with inflation for decades but still they cry poor.

Depending on uncertain imported oil and gas is already not profitable and has a higher probability of becoming fantastically expensive every time some kooky world leader sneezes.

I prefer AppImage. Flatpak feels like it went way past the point of diminishing returns for efficiency and functionality vs. complexity.