that it should not be used for important stuff.

My wife has Ehlers-Danlos - weak stretchy connective tissue. It's a spectrum syndrome running from very loose joints on the low end to crippling joint/ligament problems with lots of other stuff thrown in. She's on the low end, thank ghod.

Ehlers-Danlos is highly correlated with sleep apnea that has nothing to do with overweight.

Superintelligence might be a ways off.

Sounds ripe for a class action lawsuit.

Not true: viruses didn't crash nearly as much.

Almost the same here, but in Wayland, so Sway instead of i3.

And yeah, for me, 48 years old was the big downslide. So many small things start going wrong at the same time. And the maddening thing is, you still feel young inside. It's just that you slowly give up on stuff because the body doesn't follow. It's like seeing opportunities disappear and doors closing. Not fun...

they can give some to me. I'll relieve them of the burden.

is that at the moment, it has human junior engineer-level skill. This means it's also liable to do stupid mistakes out of inexperience, that turn into giant screw-ups if you put it in charge of critical stuff.

I did my share of root rm -rf's when I was a young programmer but my boss didn't let me do it on the primary database machine. The wost that ever happened was that I deleted my own copy and had to reinstall my machine.

If you're dumb enough to make AI work on important stuff, you're a bad "manager" of your AI junior engineer.

sawing the branch you're sitting on.

Couldn't they pass all the bikes through a box that delivers a high-energy eletromagnetic pulse, or microwaves for a split second or something to destroy any electronics inside while leaving the mechanical things intact?

Or course stuff like electronic derailleurs or cycle computers would have to be taken off first.

Holy ripoff Batman...

Then again... Apple. They know their customers have too much disposable.

If you can ship and deploy 100x bigger or faster, you are exposing 100x as much interface to adversaries.

You'd better hope your LLM was trained on very carefully vetted example code, as opposed to the highest rated posts on StackOverflow, or maybe even all posts there.

might end up in a Salvadorian concentration camp in less time than it takes to say "Oh, what are these armed, masked men surrounding me for?"

Is that guy a cat who needs to nap every 2 hours?

FWIW, I once participated in a coding contest at my university in the early 90's that lasted 72 hours (the first prize was a full scholarship, which I didn't get :)) I ran on coffee and speed for the full 72 hours, then collapsed on a couch and slept until someone woke me up to come get my third prize (a Solaris license).

10 hours non-stop coding sounds like a normal day at the office trying to wrap up a project.