The use of cosmetics such as skins, UI chrome, paint, pinstripes, dashboard instrument animations, and more instead of actual improvements is a sign of a failing product.

The hardware, computer chips, copper wiring, design and manufacturing effort needed for them inflates prices above what they should be.

For a long-lived product, automobiles, they get near feature complete and adding a new feature is done just for product makers to have something new to talk about in selling the product, product development teams have something to put on their yearly job appraisal, ....

Need:
- Number of possible bugs found by the AI
- Cost or runtime of the AI to scan the source code
- Total human hours needed to analyze them
- Total human hours needed to setup and run the AI based source code scans (assuming multiple AI tools were used)
- Breakdown of the findings into

not a bug
a style issue
a bug that is handled elsewhere (null checked parameter is already done in another function)
a minor bug
an invalid OS library call
a post-API or other call which does not check for the right return value or misses ...
The larger question seems to be "What code structures resulted in less AI bug findings?" Do bugs show up more frequently inside of for loops compared to while loops, etc.

That last point could be used to adapt the coding style guidelines for curl so that more error prone code constructs are avoided. It is at the lines of code point and not about adopting any one of the large number of design patterns.

A second question would be, how many lines of code were there in functions which had a bug and how many lines of code were there in functions which did not have a bug

The infighting is from the left and right and from focus group X and focus group Y.

Asking questions, pushing back against the simple boilerplate talking points on each side is needed, even if it is only to move a few people at a time that critical thinking is needed.

It's to prevent the slogans from being perpetuated such as the left's "How are we going to pay for these tax cuts?" and the rights "Reckless government borrowing." For example, both could be called overspending instead, be it on defense, social programs, or mandated spending on old-age programs.

The representatives and elected officials have been 'business as usual' since the 1970s with long-term damaging effect and lower standard of living on the general population.

It is not left or right, it is about reprioritizing existing government spending, government focus and addressing long-term negative effects on the population.

The media has forgotten how to ask critical questions when a critical question does not align with the media's favored program, candidate, policy, or cause.

"What is your new product idea which does not use AI and when is it coming to market?" is what we need to ask the non-aI companies since all we hear in the headlines and company financial calls is "AI allowed us to transform (buzzword, buzzword, buzzword) and do (buzzword buzzword) number (buzzword)."

Given the huge anger at the Democrat party leadership, the many octogenarians, or older geriatrics in party leadership positions, and the long-long-long standing Democrat (effective) policy of agitating one group against another without passing any laws helping blue collar workers, there is going to be a large field of Democrat party members trying to run for president in 2028.

It may be just a generational demographic thing, where the nostalgia as party policy, don't make any large changes, keep propping up the same old candidates and same old talking points without actual action or laws passed has caused the party to collapse in the US and in several EU countries.

The nostalgia as policy, both on the right and left depends on elderly politicians doing nothing but having the same debates, same TV appearances and just enough to keep getting re-elected.

The net effect as this elderly generation nostalgia is likely rot in all areas, public, private, corporate, institution, bureaucrat, arts, entertainment, technology (as a whole, not just AI). This rot everywhere is eroding the living standard and quality of life for younger people / people with a decade or more of work life before retirement.

Lots of countries of different political systems, democratic and not so democratic, capitalistic to not so capitalistic are all exhibiting multiple facets of this rot, so there's not a way to blame one party, one leader, one form of government, one economy type.

Regular citizen concerns and problems will only get addressed when the 50 year long reliable voting blocks become un-reliable voting blocks.

Nothing will change as long as we're all pigeonholed into nice demographic X, demographic Y, gender X, ethnicity Y, etc. which vote reliably based on well worn and worn-out slogans, talking points and rage bait news articles.

The danger is that most countries with workable legal systems, larger GDP, higher standard of living, respect for personal rights and freedoms will age in place until there is literally nothing that the government lawmakers can pass into law except higher government spending on old-age care, old-age security, and make sure nothing changes forever (i.e., stagnation, rapid decay and economic failure).

This decade's problem is infighting.

As long as we're in easy to anger and easy to agitate groups, left, right, pro-tech, AI danger, gender conflict, ethnicity conflict, more of a victim than other groups, more in danger, damaged by policies, etc.) we wont get any forward progress.

The question in this AI Education article should be "How is AI going to improve the test scores and high school drop out rates of black males so that they are on par with white girls? How much money needs to be spent on AI and Education to make that happen?"

The reporting, research papers, government speeches, think-tank articles, ... need to have a "How are you or your research going to fix this inequality / problem?" as the first question asked of them, instead of parroting the press release mill's talking points.

It will happen. 1-click transform web page into tic-toc or youtube video.

It's been done in the past with "word spinning" existing articles to make new blog posts to monetize blog posts - https://en.ryte.com/wiki/Artic...

Anyone convinced that jumping on over-hyped technologies when they are the front-page news of news sites is a bad practice.

How may IoT devices are really used on a wide scale beyond monetizing your personal data devices and services?

A lot of games have become a yearly release, just because it's a new year, with the same gameplay and maybe a different back-story.

A 4.3% difference in gameplay with each new game is not compelling.

The "internet time" mantra coming back as "996" these days.

Is this the old bring in a consultant architect for a POC to show the in-house team what can be done in 1/3rd the time and then, 'since the POC is nearly done' get the POC into production in a month or two?

I'd appreciate a deep dive on the statistics and effect of AI on total call center volume and one and done resolved cases.

Signed about a week before the new president was to take office. Classic political do-nothing-ness. Both parties are deep into the AI build-out, since it is a nationwide effort to build power plants, rebuild the electrical grid, and spend tax money on new programs, give campaign winning speeches about 'creating jobs, creating high-paying jobs for blue collar workers, ..."

Were are on the uphill part of the AI climb, when it matures more, the usual gang of "group X most affected victims" will have finally found an effective marketing slogan to keep the donations, government grants and corporate sponsorships coming in.

https://www.federalregister.go...
Advancing United States Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 01/17/2025

Executive Order 14141 of January 14, 2025

Advancing United States Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

It's all a life or death, do or die right now, the environment is crashing and going to doom us all for the political class ....

Then you find out that it is 100% about the country funding and keeping its military at the forefront of new war fighting technologies like AI, LLM, drones and the electrical grid needed to power them all.

It is the same for each of these countries abandoning decades of politicians 'product placement style' placing 'environment buzzwords' into campaign speeches, donation seeking tours and proposed yet nearly unpassable legislation or legislation which is scheduled to take effect 10 years down the road which is abandoned after 5 years.

Most people do not need connected and or bluetooth tech gadgets.

What's next rent a tire?

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