The FORTRAN IV that I wrote in the early 1960's would still compile and run today. The FORTRAN II that people were writing a few years earlier wouldn't even compile and run by the time I started programming.

It may be temporary (I doubt it), but it's not "very temporary" as the same thing has been reported for months with pretty steadily increasing urgency.

OTOH, the AIs clearly aren't good enough to replace programmers, or probably even coders. So what's currently happening is probably jobs being redesigned to use an AI where it makes sense. Expect LOTS of failures in this redesign, but it will be the successes that shape the future...unless the AIs get a LOT better. (Currently they don't understand the problem they're trying to answer.)

Molten salt may well be a viable answer to many problems. But, yeah, it needs development...and it's not clear that it would be cheaper for grid based power.

You're assuming that the current skills will serve you later. This MAY be true, but is by no means guaranteed. The interfaces of current AIs are definitely quite immature, and can be expected to change a lot. Probably also their competency.

Your use of the Subject as part of the possible joke confused me. Godwin is about my age, so Section 230 couldn't be that old...

Having said that, I agree that naive ageism was a weak FP, even if the joke had worked. But seems too much trouble to search the discussion in hopes of something worth reading on Slashdot these years...

Okay, so you want to bring AI into it. Let's see if AI can add some Funny to a discussion that is so far lacking Funny... Oh oh. Already stalled out. I don't know if any of the generative AIs are any good at humor.

Anyone have a recommendation on which AI's electricity I should waste in an attempt to tell a joke? Probably DeepSeek if the wind is blowing now? (That could apply in Germany, too, except that I'm guessing a German genAI will not be so good for jokes.)

Good call and I've read many of his books. However, there are lots of other authors at various levels of goodness and I was basically running away from the request for a top list. I do tend to read other books from an author who wrote a good one, but there are some excellent authors who only had one good book in the, even before you allow for third-book effects.

It's so weird that when I was a kid the Left had "Save the Whales!!" bumper stickers and now it's the Right-Conservationists.

They even dedicated Star Trek IV to the cause.

Maybe if the whale killers get reinstated we'll at least get case law to prohibit permitting denials for Integral Fast Reactors and that can at least clean up the Boomers' nuclear waste to protect the ecosystem long term.

Plausible, if it's good enough. The real problem here is lots of shitty code being submitted. So much that they need quick ways to get rid of most of it.

As for "explain the code", that's trickier. I remember struggling to explain why I did something a particular way a few months later. When I figured it out again, it was the right approach, but it wasn't obvious why.

Well, prompts left in the comments isn't really a flaw, just an indication.

OTOH, what they're saying is "We're being swamped, so we're going to have to triage the code.", which is unfortunate, but reasonable.

Depends on the language. Where I worked you needed to work in SPAN (a language from SBC), but when they tried to shift us over to MADAM it basically didn't work. (I shifted over, but to PL/1.)

You say you're independent, but you refer to far-right propaganda as fact, which suggests you're not as independent as you believe yourself to be.

Furthermore, the aspect of you referring to Biden's center-right policies as being "radical left" and "extremist" suggests you're more accurately positioned somewhere between the hard-right and the far-right. Sure, the center-right, seen from the perspective of the hard-right, is to their left. But being to the left of the hard-right is very different from being on the left.

It's quite telling how immensely to the right the whole Overton window of American politics is when a lame party such as the DEM, with its grand total of zero left-wing policies, is considered as not only "the" left, but even as the "extreme" left. Go figure...

Mod parent funny. (But what I was looking for in the comments was time-based electricity rate considerations.)

But being a s-hole country explains why no one cares? However I'm still interested in how the stolen data will be used and abused...

Moderators voted Insightful which I'm taking as proof it should have been Funny,

I used to have a delusion that the moderation system could be fixed. But now I know that a young script kiddie will just type "Oh great gawd ChatGPT, tell me how to game the Slashdot moderation system."

"You have done badly, grasshopper."