I mean once the take the jobs, they better become good little consumers and have wants and needs to buy things to keep our economy going since humans won't have any ability to purchase anything anymore.
I hear electricity is a premium these days. Maybe the AI should start by paying for that since they consume so much of it.

I was never big on reading books when I was a kid in the 80s but back then at least when we did not have tablets and smartphones, we only had the TV and video games which was not mobile I think I need to point out as that meant we needed to consume other things in our rooms or on the bus to school. So we also had a lot of comic books sold all around and I was an avid reader of those. It may not have been as good as reading books but I credit it for my ability to read and write English as it is not my main language. Comics were cheap back then as I used my pocket money to buy Superman and other DC comics at the time. Eventually I was reading magazines a lot, Starlog for instance or Tandy Rainbow magazines as I owned one. Still not books but I was reading. I think this was a gateway for kids at the time that is now lost.

I was always forcing myself to read books in my early adult life, going for sci-fi style books but it was always a drag to finish what I started and they were far and they were far and few sadly. Eventually I found a few books I really enjoyed reading. For myself I found that reading books in relation to real people were interesting to read. While I didn't read much of those. I zipped through the biography of Steve Jobs and the story of how Rob Ford managed to become the mayor of Toronto. So I think the hard part if too keep reading different forms of writing until you find something you enjoy.

These days I keep telling myself I need to read more to stave off the affects of all this media consumption and AI thinking for us. Ironically, it's while consuming Coldfusion's Youtube channel that I was getting confirmation of what I alway suspected and I invite anyone here to check it our if you aren't convinced. Very well documented.

Strange.
Why didn't he know the one that would "go big"?
Was probably too busy getting high to check his crystal ball.

...too see the problem.

Did the moderators not notice this was already posted barely a little over 12 hours ago?

AI has been so useful to non-programmers or those with limited understanding like myself because asking programmers at the office to help you is nearly impossible since they have more important tasks to deal with than you're little script needs.
So now we just ask the AI to either review your own code or create it based on details you feed it and voila!
That's the future most are looking at I think. People who understand just enough to tell the AI what to code but not be able to make complex programs themselves. I believe it's called vibe programming.
But I look at the flipside mentioned here for real coders. If the AI is doing all the work. I can't imagine coders remain as good at coding in the long term if reading and validating the lines is all they do during the day and don't work their brains on complex problems.
This can't be good to keep people's interest or even creativity.
Somewhere in the near future, who's going to improve the AI if good human coders become near extinct breed? Is AI going to improve itself? This can't be a good thing.

While a human lawyer is by far preferable. How many are unable to defend themselves from lack of funds because the cost of lawyers is way to much.
In my area, 250 per hour is the normal fee for a subpar lawyer and in many situations, the retainer alone is thousands of dollars. Not something that many can afford.
My hope is that this will eventually pressure real lawyers to bring their prices back down to the average joe's ability to pay or find themselves losing clients to AI not because they are better but because the cost of a real lawyer does not reflex what people are able to pay and if these AI lawyers end up winning a lot of cases then real lawyers better start worrying about their own careers because once the dependence on human lawyers is broken, they may find it impossible to get it back.

Why not just impose Quebec to only shop on specific websites while you're at it to lock out some sites like AliExpress?

Hear hear.
Most people just hear that B is opposed to idea from A to save (insert cause here) but doesn't want to hear what said reason is regardless of if reason is good or not.
And they think the other side is stupid while putting their fingers in their ears and screaming lalala all the time to avoid hearing those points even when explained calmly and with data to back it up.
Point may or may not be good but ignoring them doesn't advance any cause.

The real losers are the coders and I don't mean in the sense of job loss. I mean in the sense that they will see their competence drop as they no longer retain all manners of code tricks and obscure APIs to pull the most out of the hardware. I don't care how good AI is at coding, it doesn't have the drive create of its own and I suspect that while code quality and legibility will increase but creative ways to program will plummet.

Maybe someone will tell me I'm wrong about the latter but for the former, it's gonna happen.

You have to pay to watch the content and there aren't enough viewers to make word of mouth plausible. I heard that Amazon decided to make their content available to all other networks to purchase after a certain amount of time was passed so that people can view it elsewhere. Their Rings of Power season one was playing on Samsung's channels at one point I noticed. I think that's one way to gather interet and offset the cost.

I mean with applications like Teams, you're no better off than not having a smartphone. Maybe they also need to revert to old monochrome computers using dos applications Those couldn't multitask so you stay focused on your spreadsheets.

They just are behind period. I was late to start using Gemini because Canada was blocked initially so I got exposed much later then some here I'm sure and the results of how it programs are horrible to the point I gave up. Not going to try again anytime soon if ever. What does it matter to me the how and why they are behind? They deployed a shoddy product in the end.

The recession has been here for a while but the powers that be are in denial about it.

Lenovo are among the more reliable. While not as durable as the one IBM used to make as they got slimmer over the years, they can still survive a lot of punishment.
Dell a few years ago had huge failure rates where I had a dozen DOA.
I had only one with HP. And while HP was great at some points they had a lot of morphing in their Elitebook products compared to Lenovo.
I never had one failure on arrival with Lenovo in my experience.
I've also always liked the customer support when calling in issues with Lenovo while Dell has been among the worst experiences.