I literally do not understand this perspective. If that was true they would have let Netflix buy Warner Bros., which would have spun off CNN, and Skydance could have scooped it up for much much less money than buying the entirety of Warner Bros/discovery.
Iceberg is, primarily, a spec [0]. It defines exactly what data is stored and how it is interacted with. The community debates broadly on spec changes first, see a recent one on cross-platform SQL UDFs [1].
We have yet to see a largely llm driven language implementation, but it is surely possible. I imagine it would be easier to tell the llm to instead translate the Java implementation to whatever language you need. A vibe-coded language could do major damage to a companies data.
If I had a spec for something non-trivial, I probably would ask AI to create a test suite first. Or port tests from an existing system since each test is typically orders of magnitude easier to rewrite in any language, and then run AI in a loop until the tests pass.
You want Victorian healthcare? Or privacy? No air conditioning? Dirty air? Horse shit everywhere? No different, people stink, can't shower, and it takes hours of labor to wash clothes without a washing machine?
No, it’s 2026, we can create a hybrid, that’s the point! The ability to choose our destiny!
Also - Horse shit doesn’t sound that bad. People stink in 2026 too.
But I do think, I dunno if inflection point is precisely the right concept, there will plenty of future developments I’ll be glad , but I think less and less of a percentage of our innovation is positive for general human happiness.
Big tech ceos even often talk about this sort of longtermist perspective where today’s human happiness doesnt matter, just progress toward an unknown future.
Almost always they start by having connections that hire them (old colleagues, former friends, etc.), building out those connections (conference talks, doing really good work, writing high quality blogs), and then if you're lucky, some word of mouth.
Good points - admittedly, I didn’t put enough effort into building connections through different pipelines back when I was contracting. Upwork and a few personal connections were my sole sources.
It just felt really difficult to do both the engineering work while trying to do customer development at the same time.
The fact that OP has been able to do this for so long, while supporting a family, piqued my interest.
Contract? These docs are information answering user queries. So if you use a chatbot to generate them, I'd like to be reasonably sure they aren't laden with the fabricated misinformation for which these chatbots are famous.
It's a very reasonable concern. My solution is to have the bot classify what the message is talking about as a first pass, and have a relatively strict filtering about what it responds to.
For example, I have it ignore messages about code freezes, because that's a policy question that probably changes over time, and I have it ignore urgent oncall messages, because the asker there probably wants a quick response from a human.
But there's a lot of questions in the vein of "How do I write a query for {results my service emits}", how does this feature work, where automation can handle a lot (and provide more complete answers than a human can off the top of their head)
I think there's just not enough money in the county to induce more babies. The cost would be a shock. Anyone wealthy enough to shoulder the cost would fight so hard against it, it would never stand a chance. IMO the number is probably something like $10k per year per kid. Foster Care pays somewhere between 8k-12k.
Why would they? Because they are about to do the thing they planned to do for months or years? Because they may be risking their own life? Because they're worried about getting caught rather than following through? Because no matter how prepared they are they have never done that EXACT scenario before at that exact airport with those exact people? Because the human mind is a lizard brain even with training and preparation?
Still not a perfect systems, other countries manage this part much better (I've heard Israel is especially good at it, but I don't have direct evidence).
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