This was Uber's end-goal from the very beginning. The human drivers were only a stop-gap, as Uber wanted to position itself to lead the market in self-driving private on-demand transportation. To do that it first sought to position itself as the lead in the market for conventional private on-demand transportation.

Many businesses don't care about the people that work for them because they only view them as liabilities, not as assets. This becomes more and more relevant the more a given business pushes their employees into being meat-cogs in their corporate machinery. Originally it was manufacturing but now the new hot thing is to push this into services.

So yeah, this is no surprise at all.

If only his cautionary words about the risks of AI software development had been heeded, he would have been a big name in the never-ending dumbeat about the "sotware crisis" for the last 50 years!

I'm currently reviewing my CEO's vibe-coded slop courtesy of Claude as we speak.
Don't get me wrong- it's cool. I like what he built. But fuck me is the code bad.

Went through this recently with our CEOs new vibe coded "financial agent" ...thing.... It was a neat enough, although highly ceo-brained kind of app. But holy fuck was the code bad.

It took me all of 2 minutes to locate an exploit where you could get full access to any other customers bank account. I paid myself $10 finder fee with his bank account to show him that shit shit actually matters.

In the end I was too annoyed to progress further so handed it to one of the juniors to audit the rest and yeah, he found endless bugs and vunerabilities in it too.

This was all done with claudes highest end model too. I was honestly surprised it was as big a mess as it was.

No disagreement, but it's also worth noting that in general Netflix, being a B2C company, doesn't really have much by way of a sales group. I worked there for 12 years, and there was no Chief Revenue Officer, Sales team, or salespeople that I ever saw.

Right - it's like you have explosive diarrhea, and rather than going to the doctor you just buy a bigger toilet.

Judging by some of the bugs in Claude Code, either there are/were (they are still hiring) no competent developers there, or they just have a religion of trying to have the AI fix the code, even when it is incapable of it.

The famous CC screen jitter bug had the most simple and obvious explanation you could imagine (they were clearing each screen area before they wrote to it), yet the bug persisted for months with users complaining about vocally!

I don't recall any major distributed version control system before git, other than Bitkeeper. Most people were using things like CVS that required you to checkout/lock files before working on them.

Linus wrote git because Bitkeeper revoked the open source license for it.

> 7 engineers achieved this. Impressive to say the least.

Not really.

Linus wrote git single handled in 10 days.

The real question is why Anthropic had any humans involved. A source control system isn't exactly rocket science, yet apparently their AI couldn't handle it without a team of 7 humans also involved.

Agreed, and centralized coordination is a HUGE simplifying assumption to the task at hand.

The beauty of growing the chemistry with bugs is the limit to your production is really just the size of your bioreactor, and thats a very much known and solved problem

Chernobyl hit criticality. Fukushima did not. There is a *vast* difference.

GTA 5 PC added anti-cheat at some point and those usually do end up breaking Linux compatibility. I don't see GTA 6 launching on PC without anti-cheat also, because the public lobbies in GTA 5 were an absolute mess of people doing crazy things like turning your character into a toilet. I doubt Rockstar would want a repeat of that.

Also, the other thing they hate even more than cheaters is people using hacks to get free shit. The new game will probably be even more heavily monetized than GTA 5, and those Shark Cards ain't gonna just sell themselves.
 

For a game where a big part of the appeal is the driving simulator aspect (screwy cartoon video game physics aside), 30 FPS feels like a slideshow. There are certainly genres of games where it doesn't matter as much, but high-speed action is kind of the whole point of GTA.

The thing is, for consoles 30fps is entirely playable as long as its *stable* for all except the turbo-gamers who are unhappy with anything less than 120fps ultra 4k. 60fps is observably better. Beyond that... eh..... Not a lot of point outside of competitive PVP. Most gamers dont have reflexes fast enough to really make great use of it. But 30fps feels comfortable, just not perfect. But considering how shitty most loungeroom TVs are , your not gaining much.

People who really want high performance play on PCs anyway. Then higher FPSs start to matter, but you also have the high end of Nvidia cards for the speed fiends, and if it runs happily 30fps on a console, it'll run 60fps happily, and probably better on a 5070 or whatever.

Someone needs to hack them and have their AI guru tell them all to wear orange and pointy tin-foil hats.