Honestly, nearly all C-levels of large companies are out of touch with reality.

They're high enough on the totem pole to not live like the "plebes", so don't live a normal life anymore and have enough power/money to have a cloud of sycophants hovering around them feeding them what they want to hear (even if the C-level exec wants to hear the "real" truth, the sycophants will always win since they're the ones that don't tell the executives bad news, so don't get pushed aside for being "difficult/negative".).

I always thought that coding questions during interviews were stupid anyways even before AI: it's information that one can simply look up with a simple internet search or programming book, so if someone's got those things memorized or not, in my experience, is not a good indicator of how well a person will perform in their job. The only reason to ask programming questions is to figure out if the person was "fibbing" on their resume about their skills.

Plus it shows absolutely nothing about their interpersonal skills, which are as important to be a valued member of a development team.

If an "Engineering Manager" didn't know this already know this from the beginning, then they're not a very good one in my books.

As others have stated, companies aren't faithful to their workers, so everyone, especially the peons are just numbers on their balance sheets.

However, large companies have a hard time getting rid of people that actually ARE underperforming and dragging down their peers and deserve to be fired, so "layoffs" are a way to do it since "firing" someone is much, much more difficult even in "at will employment" states.

If user == Elon Musk, set priority = max ;-)
It's a jest, but it's probably more right than wrong. :-O

Now if they'd had blown 11 million of the film's budget on illicit drugs and exotic cars, then it would be "normal" for Hollywood. ;-)

Definitely one headline I was not expecting on my 2025 Political Bingo card.

It's definitely much less efficient to have to "hunt and peck", so eventually most everyone teaches oneself to "touch type" if they type a lot. However, it's not necessarily "home key position" four finger on each hand typing. I knew a guy who could type with two fingers faster than 80wpm. He just taught himself to touch type with two fingers. I've also seen kids touch type with four fingers (two on each hand).

Why? Because AI code generation isn't perfect and someone needs to fix the generated code.

IMHO, AI generated code can take a lot of the tediousness out of coding, but will never be perfect, so will still need some humans to verify and fix the output.

Plus Software Engineers/Architects are still needed to plan out how and stitch together the small bits of code so they work together well and can be maintained and expanded upon easily.

When you find out how much it costs to prosecute a criminal case you'll harping about how much money is being wasted. ;-)

Milking people out of their money on a technically unfeasible project. It's money that could have gone to help solve transportation issues with solutions that can actually be implemented.

Definitely the first red flag was that it was something that Elon Musk wouldn't even devote any time or money in by "giving it away" for others to implement.

Huawei didn't build "secret" fabs to avoid sanctions. Huawei masked their ownership/involvement in these fabs to avoid sanctions.

Most jobs don't and never will. For example, the service industry is a major employer and will never require "programming" skills. I can't see someone's who job entails ending customer interactions with: "Would you like fries with that?" ever needing such skills.

However, in the technical and scientific jobs that's true.

I think the point is to get some "non-sponsored by a huge company to further their own goals" information out to non technical people. Although people use and new generations have grown up with technology, the actual underpinning structure and the potential misuse of information gathered through that technology is not well known.

I'm a huge proponent of revealing "how the sausage is made" at a high level for everything we use today, not just where our highly processed food comes from, but politics, economics and of course technology.

AI will save us! ;-)

I've seen laptop computers for sale on ebay that have processors that aren't "officially" supported by Windows 11 being sold with Windows 11 preinstalled. So this would be a good thing so a non-tech savvy purchaser would know that the computer has an "unsupported" version of the OS installed on their computer.

I agree that for the people that went to the trouble themselves of circumventing the checks, it's just annoying. But as long as it's a notice just pasted on the desktop, I'm fine with that.