Great use case.

Even if we had full-on human level AGI (which we don't), you'd still need to iterate and correct.

You wouldn't expect to give a non-trivial programming task to another human without having to iterate on understanding of requirements and corner cases, making changes after code review, bugs needing to be caught by unit/system tests, etc.

If you hired a graphic artist to create you a graphic to illustrate an article, or book, or some advertising campaign, then you also wouldn't expect to get it right first time. You're going to iterate and work with the artist until you get something close to what you were hoping for (or maybe different, but better).

How much iteration and feedback you need with today's "AI" depends on what kind of AI you are talking about (just LLMs, or also things like image generators), what you are using it for, and how skilled you are in using it.

If you are using an LLM to learn about something then you will have a conversation with it and probably not regard this as "iteration" anymore than you would with a human, even though it really is.

If you are using an LLM to write code or find bugs, then a large part of it is going to be how much context specific to your project have you provided. If you are just relying on what is baked into the LLM (which is not entire software projects - it's the content of the internet put through a blender and chopped/mixed into training fragments), then all bets are off.

I think I'll just fill in the log "no intelligent life here", and move along.

What kind of moron starts yelling at something that they believe is a computer/AI ?!

Do they also scream at the alarm clock when it wakes them up?

So when Lindsey starts reading from her AmEx-approved script, callers are infuriated by what they perceive to be another machine.

If she's accurately executing the programmers' script, I'd say she is a machine. Somebody port Doom to her!

This is a fuckin' awesome idea, but there's an easy improvement over the red rectangle and block symbol. Seriously, dude, you gotta use the sign images from They Live (1988). You know you want to.

If people don't have a government-granted monopoly on their features, they'll have no incentive to have any features at all.

We never needed "AI" or LLMs to think we're nothing more than machines.

I agree completely, on all counts.

"requiring", not "not requiring".

It's 2025 - where is my edit button?

> A recent Pew study found that Americans think software engineers will be most affected by generative AI

I'm not sure that will turn out to be true. Perhaps more reflection on how little the average non-developer knows about what the job entails.

All jobs that can be done sitting in front of a computer are likely to be among the first affected by, or replaced by AI, but the ones to fall first will most likely NOT be those not requiring deep and exact reasoning. Jobs where today's generative AI is already good enough in many cases (commercial art, non-creative writing, etc) will be the ones to go once adoption catches up to what the tech is capable of.

Generative AI in general is surprisingly good at generating pictures, videos, etc, that were traditionally thought of as creative, and perhaps surprisingly bad at jobs where the key ingredient is instead intelligence and analysis - high level human intelligence. The reason for this is that current "AI" (whether diffusion models or transformers) is designed for copying human output, not for coping with novel situations where it needs to be able to learn and adapt. That ability to learn on the job, rather than be "pre-trained", is entirely missing from today's AI.

Right, and with fiber, you just using something like invisilight, where you run a whisker-thin fiber along a baseboard, or up in the corner where you wall meets the ceiling, and cover it up with just an itty bitty bit of stuff.

In other words, instead of running copper from each room back to wherever your Internet demarc sits, run fiber to each room back to your Internet demarc, and use managed fiber endpoints instead of managed wifi mesh devices.

Last I heard, Apple sales haven't plummeted and thrown them into bankruptcy, so it sounds like they learned the lesson just fine: it's fine to show people ads. People might complain a little bit, but they won't stop buying. Cost is $0 and ad revenue is presumably more than $0.

If someone is stuck with your proprietary software and you aren't showing them ads, then you're leaving money on the table. What're they gonna do, fork it out?

You only need to refuel your ICE car once a week or so, and the same is true for a BEV. Even though plugging in at home is less hassle than going to a gas station, it's still not something you want to have to do every day.

Why wouldn't you want to plug the car in 'every day' if you have the ability to? Going to the gas station is dead time; you're standing there pumping.

Plugging in any sort of plugin EV is not dead time; you seat the connector and...walk away. Your involvement is done until you want to drive next, and you..unplug the connector and set it into it's holder. Or lay it on the ground out of the way.

Do you also complain about plugging in your phone at night?