Every generation has done this, including mine, but not with a 45B valuation. It's utterly insane, how much people willingly threw at a successful gambler.

What am I trying to sell you? Access to frontier models, that I have no control over, that I don't work for but work with?

The great thing about AI assisted architecture is, that you can start at a very coarse level and refine from there. If a lower level design stage discovers a flaw in my thinking, I can go back up. The biggest difference between AI assistants and a design team is, that the former will never go "please not this dummy again", if you show up with yet another "additional feature I need" or "how about we look at it this way and change the structure a seventh time?". You won't do this on purpose, but these things do pop up in a design phase (ideally there). AI assistants also have a much larger context window than my rotten brain, so they will reliably detect conflicts between header files and some far removed design spec of yours.

You can bounce a project for months (while doing other stuff) before you are happy with your design and can proceed to finer grained design steps or even code generation. It's almost a perfect match for submarine projects (which nobody would ever shill for, since "nobody has ever engaged in such a project").

UML was an attempt to do the same thing with people, but it's very hard to get a group of humans to do, what you can easily do with a few AI agents. As a result I have never seen a software project draw any real benefit from all these UML charts large companies just love to churn out.

STUXNET attack was aimed at a nuclear "research" facility, not at a municipal water supply.

Wrong approach. If you write code immediately, you will eventually get stuck in a rut, because an architectural concept shot from the hip typically doesn't hold water. I don't talk about javascript slop here barely holding a shitty web page together, I mean software that people actually depend on, and which you will have to maintain for years with updates and additions as the project scope moves and expands.

Once you sit down and actually design something, AI will help you by looking deeply into the system you try to build, trying to find use cases and edge cases. That's when you start refining your architecture. That's when software modules come and go, components split up and parts fuse with other parts. On each step a capable AI model will guide you through the process, highlight omissions, corner cases, inaccuracies and contradictions. Any code written at this point would be a complete waste of tokens. The refined product is so much better, that you will just shake your head looking at your initial concept. It's like a whole very capable team designed this product, when you actually did it all by yourself and just threw it at 3 or 4 different agents multiple times. That's an amazing asset for submarine projects BTW!

Second massive boost from AI is, that AI happily and quickly does all the boring stuff: advanced command line parsing, proper XML parsing, help texts. Your software suddenly does stuff, which it should and could have done years ago, but you never actually got around to do it.

I honestly believe, that we are going to see lots and lots of really bad AI slop software (or are already seeing it), but there is a strong potential to write really good software with a lot less effort than ever before.

I'm sure, that Microsoft's hand crafted "security fixes" would have never done such a thing :-D

In my experience AI does this exceptionally well already. You can describe your software architecture in excruciating detail, and AI (any frontier model FWIW) will happily dissect your plan and highlight all these little weaknesses, omissions, loose descriptions and contradictions, which would later hamper your software project. It's amazing, what it can find.

AI will also refine your architecture, and make very smart suggestions, if you have multiple options to chose from, and so on. Of course, it knows all open source software and man pages, so it can also offload some of your effort to existing software and libraries.

Your software development will slow down considerably, and quality will shoot up.

I suspect that Microsoft, not unreasonably, thinks that the value of their AI slop will be enhanced if they can use an existing property to get people to classify particularly grating AI slop so that they can tune their copilot-related stuff to produce less grating or less obvious slop in the future.

Maybe someone in the org actually cares about linkedin's reputation as a hellscape for aura-farming lunatics; but I'd be shocked if the incentive that MS is actually motivated by is anything but the chance to get a dataset of text ranked by how unpleasantly bot-like it is to try to make their bots less visible.

Looks like Microsoft is trying to convince people to classify more and less distasteful bot slop for them so they can tune copilot outputs in the future.

The winning move is not to play.

> How many people does it take to run a data center after taking up all this property and all this land that could have been used for something else?

Some medium number of H1B's?

No, the jobs are not going to the citizens of the county where the citizens are subsidizing for all this for their own enslavement.

Who would ever believe such a thing after the Covid lies?

I know someone who really wants to be an electrician's apprentice but the same three slots that have existed in this metro area for the past decade are the same three slots that exist today.

Ah, well, there are pointless wars to fund and Surveillance Bros to enrich.

> Electrical Workers

Damn, son, good catch.

Some of them do metal stud framing. "Framers" might be more accurate?

> I could have done myself if the government didn't require a licensed install?

Are you going to call the cops on yourself?

Nobody pays attention to cartels where I live.

Their War on Energy has to be about depopulation at this point. They've destroyed 20% of world oil, sulfur, helium, fertilizer, natgas, and now they're going after the building blocks of home solar installs that could help people cope.

At the same time the RFP for Draft Management Software closed today.

Even Alex Jones is calling for impeachment. They've gone totally off the deep end.

Power Inverter means:
A bi-directional power device or system that converts direct current electricity to alternating current electricity, or converts alternating current electricity to direct current electricity, to include microinverters, string inverters, central inverters, and hybrid (battery-based) inverters; and Contains components that enable remote communication, control, sensing, data-collection, or monitoring through Wi-Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, or other similar connections.

Everything useful has Bluetooth in it now. That's how you hook it up to Home Assistant. Somebody should tell the FCC that Bluetooth doesn't reach to China.

Imagine all the crime the Bell System was used to perpetrate!

So many Russians use Telegram, including front-line soldiers.

There's more to this story that we don't know.