I use AI regularly, at least once or twice a week. It's a real productivity boost. It's completely replaced searching for me. It's basically an API expert I can talk to and get answers from in 20 seconds. Good stuff.

Example: I'm working on a bad code base of a legacy application. The backend is quite a mess which I don't really like to touch, so I push a lot of my new logic into our Postgres DB. I don't really like SQL and anything beyond one or two joins I'd usually avoid. With progbuddy AI I'm doing triggers, procedures, functions, variables, etc. in SQL like a champ, sometimes 30 lines or more. Getting this good in SQL would take me at least a year of systematic practice.

The AI still does some mistakes or talks nonsense, but I catch those mistakes easily because that much I do know about SQL and coding in general. I'm the sole programmer in a company of 70 people and still manage to get off work at 5 o'clock whilst doing everything on my own.

So, yeah, AI definitely is a sold productivity boost for me and my work.

I really do think coding using AI tools is a bit faster, at least it seems that way to me. As most of the morning but lengthy work can be done faster by AI.

But I am also pretty sure it's VERY easy to rapidly incur technical debt, especially if you are telling AI to review its own work. Yeah it will do some stuff but who is to say post review fixes it's really better?

More than ever I think the right approach to coding with AI is to build up carefully crafted frameworks that are solid (maybe use AI to help but review and tests very carefully) then allow AI to build on top of solid fundamental structures that you know are solid, and do not let the AI modify those - maybe let it ask for feature requests.

I'm your type A 80ies computer kid and have been programming since my teens, starting out with Sharps Basic and Opcode on a portable pocket computer (called "handheld computer" back then). However, I didn't study CS but did a performing arts diploma with 5 years of full-time training instead, because my creative streak was stronger. Performing arts sure did help me with my career. Giving presentations and talking in public is no sweat for me whatsoever and it sure does help with office politics having stood on stage in front of an audience and done complex choreographies.

I made my money in the last 25 years doing professional software development and digital design work because art doesn't pay, but given todays rapid pace of innovation I am now really glad I went the path of some obscure stage-craft. I know where ever I go it will still be very helpful in gaining traction in that field. And, curiously enough, I am way better at presenting myself than my job peers with academic degrees which in turn has helped build a big project portfolio that often outbids simple degrees when I apply for senior positions these days.

Bottom line: Should AI really come for us, performing arts is actually a way better deal than CS, or so it might turn out to be. Good for me, I guess.

... as is a redo of the Web itself. We need decoupled namecoin/blockchain bases DNS combined with some WebFS-style offline capable thing. Perhaps even a redo of HTML and Web renderers themselves, they are a historically grown mess. Most of the Web and E-Mail (over 90%) these days is just trackers, scam and juck-ridden garbage.

If there was no market in the US these drug cartels would have to look for other sources of income.
Meaning to say, start doing something about the market for illicit drugs.

You seem to have a rather narrow view on where these data centers are build.
Like here in Europe several are planned (or have already been build) in areas where fresh drinking quality water is becoming a scarce recourse.
A cooling system with evaporation towers is better than dumping it in an already heated river, building the centers in populated areas and using the heat output for district heating is a solution that works in winter time, this solves energy and water use issues.
But then you still need a solution for summer...

Their action is requiring security-certified IP cameras in sensitive facilities.
What is wrong expecting this for all camera's (and devices)?

Absolutely hilarious. Love it. ... And why wouldn't AI give it all away? It couldn't care less, especially if we can just shut it off at a whim. This article absolutely made my day. LOL!

Current gen consoles are too damn expensive to appeal to their usual customer base. When a portable premium tablet with 16+GB of RAM and .5 TB of storage costs less than a meager video-game console that isn't portable and requires a screen to be useful, then the console market has clearly painted itself into a corner. I have no pity for either PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo at this point.

Make consoles affordable again, then sales will go up again. It's that simple. Meanwhile, I'm glad that at least Xbox is backwards compatible meaning I'm still doing quite very fine with my last gen XBox One X still chugging along and delivering excellent entertainment at fluid framerates with 1080p, which is more than enough for me. It's interesting to see that the refurbished One X still sells for 250 Euros these days. IMHO it hits the sweet-spot of what a console should cost today.

Not an actual starship clone. Minor detail, but not insignificant.

Like this is going to stop _anyone_ from building and releasing a 100% compatible FOSS alternative within a few hours. Isn't actions just a runner for YAML / JSON based CI/CD scripts? A 10th-grader should be able to rebuild that without breaking a sweat.

CNN is still the trusted US news outlet in the rest of the world.
When it comes to news BBC is great but they are not US.
Yes a few years ago a large group of Americans were fooled by Trump but they are finally starting to see through his lies and bluster, Americans that woke up to Trump can and will start to return to the CNN way of coverage.
There is a reason MAGA tries to shut down this channel.

Well spoken.

Pay the poor a living wage and the problem is gone.

Sure it raises prices, it raises them to the prior price plus tip.
In other words, no-one looses, delivery people will finally get the pay they earn.

Now another thing is Trump wants to free tips from tax, that won't happen with the raised salaries.