Yes, that had occurred to me. However I was trying to avoid the classic "I'm special so AI could never replace me" thinking. Then again given current AI can't actually do critical thinking to solve a problem, but instead is really just trying to pattern match prior art to the stated problem, I figure AI is not ready to replace some coding tasks. Of course those in management who don't understand this limitation are doomed to have poor results.

So for I am just taking a stand back and watch how this plays out approach while trying to keep aware of the current state of the art with AI improvements.

In my most recent experiment I tried to use AI to change some code for an LCD driver to a different driver chip in the same family. For a human a relatively straight forward but time consuming process of comparing the register sets in the two datasheets. It failed, then asking for example references. I gave it one and it still failed. I guess I am too dumb at AI hand holding because I gave up and did it myself.

Since trump doesn't have to pay that $1B per day out of his own money I think he feels it is money well spent giving he achieved his actual objective of stopping the news cycles reporting on the Epstein files. Now all he has to do is refine his lies to shift the blame for high gas prices onto Obama.

Except for trivial cases I don't think that is really true yet. They both produce a result but in many cases the AI version only appears to match the results of the experienced coder, but usually has issues hidden below the surface. AI can be a great thing, but when it comes to coding there is currently a big difference between the hype and the reality.

I find myself wanting to defend his actions, but he did step over a line with the deletions and obscuring it. He should have done some that didn't require the need to obscure it, such as renaming all the files in a reversible way by something like prepending 'ISuckAtCoding' to all file names. Then nothing is lost but time to restore the names, and that time will serve as a real life lesson.

Vibe coding is not just 'new tool', it is a new methodology designed to replace skilled programmers who understand what is wanted and how to properly deliver it with unskilled 'programmers' who only know how to specify what they think they want but with no real understanding of what they have created and the risks that go with that.

Your argument would carry more weight if simply you said that this form of protest is not cool, instead of defending a bad use case for AI. Not all AI is here to stay, only the AI that is actually beneficial. Vibe coding only has a very limited range of valid use cases and most people using it don't understand when it is wrong to use it.

Not if you pick a spelling that make pronunciation unclear and therefore the name fails to stick in your head. Without looking up at the text above the best I can come up with is kindle. That makes it a marketing fail in my book. I would agree with OP, a new name is where they should start. Still I guess if their target market is phonics experts with photographic memories then they are a great success...

For me the most annoy thing about AI is the push that is a service you need to subscribe for as that is where they see the income stream. That does not appeal to people like me are from the era of scarcity and are not sold on the "rent everything and own nothing" mind set. I run my own file servers and email servers etc. I see Hugging face as my best path forward for my future AI needs, all running locally. While I can see use cases for AI for some the stuff I want to do none of those have reached the top of my todo list yet.

I'm told it real cost money to use in terms of power consumption etc which is usually restricted unless you subscribe for more tokens. So if they are going to waste resources for every search I do what's the game plan to cover the extra cost they are forcing on a routine search?

- More adverts?
- Warnings you are reaching you 80% search limits and link to pay for more searches?
- Something else I didn't want and didn't sign up for?

I see no good end game for this 'improvement'.

Yes, thank you for making my point. USD $4 a gallon is abnormally cheap. Prices for 95 petrol here have fallen a bit recently and are now down to $7.70 on average country wide. I don't expect prices to stay that low for long.

Are you familiar with consumables vs investments? You make a one off investment in clean generation to offset the constant consumption of fossil fuels. An up front cost to stop an ongoing expense and damage. The real picture is operational life vs the ROI period, for both financial and environmental costs. Smarter people than you have run the numbers, they are the ones you see spending money in greener energy options.

Run those same calculations in almost every country other than the USA and contrast is way bigger. Here in New Zealand, using NZD, you are looking at a Model 3 using 0.15 kWh/km at $0.36/kWh (charging at home, NZ residential rates) versus a similarly-sized sedan getting 16 km/l at $3.39/l. The Tesla's "fuel" cost is $0.05/km; the sedan's is $0.21/km.

Personally the maths is way more complicated for me, because I have solar, so charging looses me $0.15/kWh in grid feed earning making it $0.02/km vs $0.21/km, unless I have too much surplus power for the grid to handle and use the Model 3 charging as a dynamic load to use the power the grid can't handle i.e. increase the charging current until the solar inverters stop de-rating due to over-voltage protection (yea my rural grid connection is 0.6 Ohms, look at the voltage different when you try to push 9kW thru that). When that happens the cost of charging is effectively $0.00/km vs $0.21/km i.e. free charging during summer months.

I brought a BEV 6 years ago and I have come to realise is how much I hated the word "MPG". Hearing it always bring backs memories of "the pain at the pump" from how much gas costs. Hearing people talk about the better MPG figures of hybrids sound like a victim of mugging say how much better the latest mugger was because they didn't push the knife in as deep.

That may have been true until recently. Now in many countries, where vehicle cost are determined by actual vehicle costs and not politics, BEVs are the cheaper option in both up front purchase cost and running costs.

Here let me fix that for you: