Inflation is the drain on the nation. The reason for all of these 1 Trillion dollar companies is that there are all of these money created by the various governments and banks propped up by government entities, all of the bail outs, money printing, quantitative easing (money printing), etc., all of it is inflation, i.e. expansion of the money supply. Much of it is driven by the pathetically low interest rates, manipulated by the government over the last few decades (as the governments got off the gold), all of it means simply that prices for things (including stock valuations) go up, none of it is increase in any actual productivity, all of it is bad for the world and global economies no matter what the likes of Paul Krugmans and other Keynesian charlatans are telling you.

Basically a trillion dollars is not what it used to be, it used to be inconceivable, now it is just another Tuesday.

The economy started collapsing once the government introduced such concepts that allowed it to get to the point of the collapse. 2007 was a result of a number of wrong and bad decisions, it was not the cause. The cause is the government expansion, printing of paper money, federal reserve controlling and manipulating interest rates to be below what market would set, various rules, laws, regulations and taxes that prevent formation of capital and of businesses and promote outsourcing manufacturing.

What we are observing now is just many lines of bad decisions coming together into a single point, everything is being focused together and comes into light.

The reasons for all of this is corruption bottom up and top down, it is people expecting free shit to be handed out by government, expectations are that some people will pay for others, it doesn't matter if we are talking about income taxes, bank bailouts, housing subsidies, various rules and regulations, it is just a culmination of the effects of all of these causes.

Marking the value of these companies to market, is that it? For decades the idea for all of these 'businesses' was to collect as many free users as possible (which is why they could get hundreds of thousands if not millions of subscribers per day) and then get paid by the 'investors' (gamblers) for this. Their best business propositions were to sell advertisements and to sell user data. By introducing paid subscriptions AFAIC they are actually marking the value of their businesses to market, as in they are going to find out what their business models are actually worth. What will this do to their share prices you ask? I don't know, I wonder if they do.

This is already happening today and as many things are done in Ukraine today, much of what is done is done without some order from a high up office. I know that there are AI models trained on real combat data.

I saw a truck company exec spend 7 hours in one day to throw together a working portal that integrated with his TMS, QuickBooks, Slack, Telegram and a system called Border Connect. This portal looks like he wanted, does what he wanted and reduces work load and processing errors in his company. He had no idea what coding is, he had no idea and no interest even to find out what technologies were used, what languages were used to put together the solution. I have to admit it was impressive.

To say that using something like LLM for a solution generation is a good idea or not a good idea you have to look at the final result I think. It may be a terrible idea but what if it works, delivers what is asked of it and reduces expenses for a company? Also I saw how happy the guy was that he could do it, he was proud of his achievement and I must say, for a person with 0 knowledge and no understanding of the underlying tech still to be able to do this was impressive. I was impressed that he was able to achieve this.

Will it withstand the test of time? Only time will tell.

Which part of "advertising that otherwise wouldn't be possible, because it would have required a movie crew" is unclear? I never hired a movie crew and I would never hire a movie crew, so there wouldn't be any advertising shot with a movie crew, because I wouldn't be able to pay for it.

I can, however, pay for a couple of guys making videos based on my requirements by using tools that were previously unavailable and thus costing one thousand of what it would cost with movie crews and traditional filming techniques. Having a commercial done for a few thousand dollars altogether, something that otherwise could easily cost 1-3 million? I am not talking about just being efficient here, I am talking about being able to afford something altogether.

blah blah blah, I travel extensively, like as in I have been around, visited a good 20% of countries and multiple cities in each one of those, most of Europe, some of Asia, half of the Middle East and a few African countries, also all over the USA, Canada and a little bit around Mexico. USA then must be a unique snowflake, where people are all unique snowflakes with unique genes, the special fat genes. Whatever you call 'responsible', there is no way that you are gaining all that weight contrary to the laws of thermodynamics. You eat more than you use, that's all there is to it. Also quality of food matters, but not as much as quantity.

I see people, who are not programmers at all, creating automation solutions for their businesses:
https://slashdot.org/comments....

People are using AI to help them create content that otherwise wouldn't have been created ever https://youtube.com/shorts/un8... just because this is in someone's fantasy does not mean they have resources to make it real until AI stepped in.

We generate and put edit videos for advertising that otherwise wouldn't even be possible, because it would have required a movie crew and I cannot afford that but I do hire people to make these new types of video ads, so some jobs are created due to AI.

ok, all of this is for what? I think some results is better than no results. Also I am certain that if he ends up paying some fines, then fixing the problem is an acceptable result, maybe not worse than building the code in a software shop by hand. Also I don't think he is unaware about the potential problems, including fines, he is willingly taking the risk. Beside that he is integrating with some existing systems, where it is completely possible to check if all of the data was properly sent to the customs. I think he will get good results he is looking for and I wish him the best and good luck. Time will tell how things work out for him. I am sure it will be an interesting experience, even that in itself is a positive result.

The system is not about telling him how many trucks to deploy or whatnot, it is about communicating the information from his TMS and his inputs to the driver and to the border patrol (integration with the customs). If he is wrong and his work doesn't produce good results he will end up paying fines at the border because if the documentation is wrong or incomplete or is not on time then that's what happens - companies are fined, so there is a risk associated with it but there is always a risk, would you say that there is no risk when humans are doing it by hand (and I do not mean you, specifically, I mean any humans doing anything by hand)?

So again, if he is wrong he will pay for it, if he is right, he will gain from it, but what I know is that he is getting some results and then time will tell the rest of this entire story.

I disagree. Getting some results is better than getting no results at all and that's that. The person I am talking about was happy to get results from his work (and yes, he still did the work, someone still has to do the work). You assume that your work would be significantly better than the work that a non coder can achieve with a system like this, maybe you are right. However if without this AI system there wouldn't have been any results at all, that would have been much worse for the business in question.

Would these portals exist without AI? Maybe not, who says that anyone would be hiring people to do the work? But again, to assume that the quality and quantity of the work would be better with human hands is actually very questionable. How many projects completely failed with human hands on them? How many projects went over budget and were not delivered on time with human hands on them? (no matter the reasons, be it incomplete requirements, changing requirements, inability to deliver due to lack of resources, people not paying attention, getting sick, going to vacation, bankruptcies, hacks, you name it).

I would say for a business getting some results is much better than no results, so I cannot agree with you there.

I did not say anything about your job, I did not say anything about anyone's job actually. I said that a person was able to throw together a system that he wanted, the way he saw it, all without knowing the first thing about running a debugger, a compiler, without understanding what *language* or what libraries or what frameworks are used for anything at all. Development, deployment, source code, running environment, nothing. He is absolutely enjoying himself because just like anyone else who was able to learn to code, he achieved results, you can appreciate it if you still remember what it was like when you put your first few lines of code together and made the computer run them.

Except when you did it, when I did it, it was all a theoretical exercise. What he did was actually 100% useful for his business and will help him to run it more efficiently.

He is now busy working on a money collection portal for his business, he doesn't want to buy any existing solutions, doesn't want to pay for them and learn them. He wants to throw together a portal that would do what he envisions in his own head. The time of coders hating on their clients for not being precise enough are over, the clients can throw together whatever they want into a computer system by talking to a robot, not to a coder.

When the time will come to maintain the system, he will talk to the AI that will help him maintain it. In fact he said over the 3 months that he has been actively using this to create a few projects for himself the system became better and better, visibly more effective over time. You think this system will not be able to help him maintain everything?

As to the thing recording the data properly, I don't know, I didn't see the code, who knows. I assume it will record all of the data, otherwise it will not be used by people and the rumors spread quickly, nobody wants bad publicity to kill their business model, right? Whether the generated code is fit for purpose at all... does ANY developer provide any assurances to that effect? I don't think so, in fact licenses often say that exact thing: not fit for a purpose or 'as is', which means no warranties whatsoever. Have you personally ever given warranties on any of your software products?

Doesn't matter, the point is that now the production tools are democratized, people do not have to talk to software development shops, they can do the work themselves. Whether it is good or bad, we shall see.

literally 2 hours ago I was talking to a client at his office, it is a truck carrier company with over 100 trucks and drivers. The owner showed me a few projects he has been vibe coding this week. In less than 7 hours he created a portal with some 30+ screens, all for collecting and modifying information related to dispatching trucks across the border, integrated this with his existing TMS (Transportation Management System), integrated messaging and notifications between dispatchers and drivers via both, Telegram and Slack. His challenge for the evening today is to integrate it with QuickBooks to process payments and invoices.

I asked him what language was the code written in? He did not know and did not care. He asked v0.app to tell him. It was react, next.js API routes, node.js runtime, typescript for type safety, PostgreSQL (via neon), prisma.orm, cookie-based authentication system.
PDF generation (@react-pdf/renderer), date handling utilities, ui-components. He doesn't know what languages are used, how it is dwployed, whatever. He doesn't care much how the source is kept, as long as it is, he doesn't care how it is deploed. He tells the computer whar he wants but tests by new hand. He is liberated from the tyranny of developers, analytics, pms, qas, etc. He does not expect it to be perfect, he is happy he can do this himself.

Why pay it, who cares about looking good in anyone's eyes, especially to look good as a 'corporate citizen', whatever t.f. that means? putin can start a land grab war and his minions are absolutely clear https://www.youtube.com/watch?... that they want to destroy Ukraine as a nation and to make sure there are no such people as Ukrainians. Trump attacks countries with force to kidnap presidents (and not putin, notice, he didn't kidnap a mass murderer) and he is open about using Venezuela for his own purposes and he threatens Greenland, Canada, Panama, you name it. ayatollahs in Iran are murdering people for protests. ICE is murdering people just because ICE agents have no dicks but they do have guns and the highest office in the state supports murder.

So tell me again, why should Cloudflare pay the fine? Sure, they can give a month notice and then leave, let Italians figure out how not to have their region DDOSed to hell by the ruzzians and the chinese and the rest.

cool, that is why I do not have an office in any of the nordic countries. I like being in control and do not tolerate someone trying to take away control, that is the primary reason I left contracts back in 2009 and went on my own, building my own tech,,searching for clients, eventually hiring people. So to quit in search of control just to lose it eventually to other people does not work for me.