My Macbook Pro 13" Early 2015 w/ 8 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD is still very usable for what most people commonly use a laptop for - browsing the web, e-mail and streaming.
> They insist the tech will never work, and avoid learning about it, becoming progressively more paranoid and isolated.
They can always learn the technology later, when and if it proves itself to be useful :) I personally don't understand the hype, even after using Claude and other AI tools - but perhaps that will change in the future.
If your company offer 'training' with 'AI expert' and 'prompt engineers', I urge you to attend. It's very gratifying, it cure imposter syndrome, and you will understand who is behind the hype and their technical level.
(And it is already useful, just not as much as some people sell it)
Of course :) It’s interesting to hear the ideas people come up with, but so far no one has demonstrated any practical results that would significantly improve the quality of work in my field. It has, however, increased the amount of slop that I need to deal with on a daily basis. Worse yet, it is not always programming slop :)
> And it is already useful, just not as much as some people sell it
In a general context, I agree. When it comes to programming, however, my experience has been different. If this technology were presented more modestly / realistically, it likely wouldn’t have attracted billions of dollars in investment and the hype. I think this is exactly what many sensible people point to when debating whether this is a bubble :)
On what reasoning do you make this prediction? Just because corporations are mandating their employees to use AI right now does not mean it will continue.
Any new software developers entering the field from this point on will have to know how to use and be expected to use AI code-gen tools to get employment. Moving forward, eventually all developers use these tools routinely. There will be a point in the future where there is no one left working that has ever coded anything complex thing from scratch without AI tools. Therefore, all* code will have AI code-gen as all* developers will be using them.
* all mean 'nearly all' as of course there will be exceptions.
> Any new software developers entering the field from this point on will have to know how to use and be expected to use AI code-gen tools to get employment
So eventually, doesn't the KPI move from "more code" to "better code"? The pendulum will have to swing the other way eventually; seems like microsoft is just accelerating that process
> doesn't the KPI move from "more code" to "better code"?
I would love for this to be true. But another scenario that could play out is that this process accelerates software bloat that was already happening with human coded software. Notepad will be a 300GB executable in 2035.
And this will cause what I'm talking about -- When nobody can afford memory because it's all going into the ocean-boiling datacenters, all of a sudden someone selling a program that fits into RAM will have a very attractive product
Most open source software tooling Were designed to be dynamically linked. It is non-standard to statically link things together, which causes various random issues.
Most inverters don't work without grid synchronization. E.g. you lose electricity from your provider and your batteries / stored energy won't work either.
All new projects need to be A++ energy class rated which require you to use renewable energy, which is likely one of the main reasons for these increases.
There are technical solutions to that and they don't cost a whole lot. A few hundred dollars of electronics guarantee that your home stays online when the grid goes offline. It's something that people find out the hard way and then fix unfortunately instead of just buying the right stuff upfront.
It'd be cheaper to buy an RTL-SDR and an LTE antenna than this tinySA. I'm not convinced that a layman would have enough practical experience with radio's to detect these signals though. The bands used for IoT aren't exclusively used for IoT either - they'll contain "normal" LTE signals too.
It would be nice to have an opt-in platform where you could select products that you'd like to see ads for. For example, you're looking for a TV or automobile and you want to see deals related to those products.
Would not work, you’d end up with hundreds of such platforms (because why not, free market) and some would even exist for the sole purpose of inferring your consent from multiple other platforms (that would sell access) and it would then become so opaque that you would have no way of actually confirming which choices you made.
I understood as a SWE that the perfect solutions we often conjure never work as expected in the real world because we do not understand basic human nature and also how society as exists today works, including many many perverse incentives.
Because there are regulations for the infotainment system as well. For example, you can't watch videos or read SMS/messages. Not to mention that the infotainment system likely has access to the CAN bus, through which you _could_ impact other safety systems.
