You are not looking for an answer. You just look for leverage to push the hallucination you have already decided on being the "truth".

Nice denial you have there. The whole thing is a little more complex than this one number and far worse.

Indeed. The problem is not that everything economic he orange criminal does is stupid. That would be survivable.

The massive, massive problem is that he is very unstable, has no strategy and changes things all the time with obviously no planning and no thinking ahead and no lead time. He just wants to keep his admirers enthralled so it is some new bad and disruptive idea every week, sometimes every day. Hence economic planning becomes completely impossible. There is no more reliable way to long-term kill a modern, optimized western economy than sabotaging all planning.

Enjoy the probably deepest recession ever that this will cause. For everybody that did vote for the other side, my condolences, what you can expect the next decade or two (or maybe longer) deeply sucks. For everybody that voted for this abject incompetence and everybody that did not vote when they could have: You did this to yourself and I have zero compassion for your suffering.

Indeed. But it is not AI or the same problems would happen in Europe. They do not. Yes, there is some stupid firings here as well, but companies still understand that young people are their future and that not hiring them is suicide.

Well, I guess the US has to go through a full Republican-caused collapse before the dumb masses get that the "leaders" there are not their friends. But beware, fascism can last a long time before it inevitably collapses.

Always the same fake excuse. THIS is what is causing the mess. People have complained in the same insightless fashion about the younger generations for thousands of years. All this serves is to elevate the complainers and make them feel good about themselves without any rational basis or actual accomplishment on their side.

Here is the actual reality: Hire young people and let them find out how things work and get better at things. If you do not, I really hope your organization just dies because it is nothing but a parasite.

These two sounds quite similar to each other. And no, the world is not moving that fast. But some already far too rich megacorps profit immensely from creating that impression.

GDPR says something like this MUST be opt-in, no exceptions.

Or poison it. Need to have a look at current poisoning techniques.

Yep. Google, at least, started this transition during Trump1.

The company has long had engineering sites in various other countries, but until Trump1, the primary focus was always on cities where Google thought the global talent would want to live. Low cost was clearly not the driving factor in the selection of London, Zurich, Munich, Tokyo and Sydney, to name a few of the ones I visited. US sites were similarly not located in low-rent areas. The workforce was definitely global, because Google wanted to hire the smartest people and while the US does have its share of brilliant minds, the US has only 4% of the world's population, so most teams -- even in the US -- ended up being minority American.

During COVID, Trump leveraged the health crisis to essentially halt H-1B approvals and renewals. This caused significant problems for Google. My own team lost a few people because they couldn't get their visas renewed and had to go back home. Some chose to move to other Google sites overseas where Google could get them a work visa, others simply went back to their home countries. One trans woman on my team was in a particularly tough spot because her home country (India) refused to renew her passport because it didn't recognize her new gender. She couldn't get her visa renewed, couldn't go home to India, and also couldn't move to any other country with an expired passport. Luckily, she had a lot of nVidia and Google stock she'd been saving up to buy a house, and by cashing that out had enough free cash to get an EB-5 "investor" visa. It's good to be rich, of course.

Anyway, Google saw what was going on and, anticipating future troubles of the sort, refocused its overseas office plans on building up teams and infrastructure, especially in India which provided so much of Google's engineering talent anyway, with the intention of shifting whole projects and workstreams there. The company had long required a significant percentage of all staffing growth to be in the US (and especially in the bay area), but that policy was scrapped and replaced by its opposite: A certain percentage of all new roles must be based overseas.

It's still the case that the center-of-mass of Google is in the bay area, but the company is actively working to change that, to build up overseas capacity, and not just groups of junior engineers under a manager whose role is to pass them detailed requirements for implementation, but instead full teams with highly-skilled and experienced senior engineers and managers able to take full ownership of major product areas and move them forward.

Trump's latest moves will just accelerate this transition. The result will eventually be a hollowing out of the company's US capacity, and therefore a reduction in the need to hire American engineers. Lucky for me, I'm leaving Google for a startup and anyway am not far from retirement. Between this stuff and AI being poised to replace junior engineering staff it's a good time to be getting out.

Also, I think it will soon be time to start shifting investments out of the US.

I would argue that it may be impossible to produce many more of those, as it requires a specific mind-set, specific skills and specific motivations. Obviously, treating the existing ones badly does make the problem worse.

Exactly. Homework is simple because you need to be able to learn from it. Fail on the homework (or use an LLM) and you will not get anywhere.

Indeed. Almost like people do not even know anymore that you do not have to be part of every hype.

At the same time, Azure probably got completely compromised. Again. And they do not even know who got in and did what, as they have no logs. Maybe invest some real money into IT security? But no, empty promised of "Security is our highest priority" is the extend of what they do about that. But Billions go into AI. As extending the fragile house of cards even more was a sane idea.

Real computer science is not the same as teaching the fashionable language or tool of the moment.
It should be about teaching students how to think about code and design useful and reliable software.
Current AI tools are interesting, not because they allow the clueless to quickly "vibe code" buggy, insecure crap, but because they give hope for a future where experts can build better software and use it to solve previously intractable problems.
The best things to teach are the conceptual fundamentals and the ability to apply the fundamentals to whatever tech comes along tomorrow

Why the timid language? Call it utterly dumb, greedy and immoral, because that is what this is. Just some assholes trying to get rich quick and damm the rest of humanity.

Indeed. Which is why it is so excessively stupid not to support them a lot more, even if you completely ignore all other angles.

What makes you think they can be fixed?