“Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road,” said Musk on October 21, 2019. “The fleet wakes up with an over-the-air update. That’s all it takes.”
He did a short lived tv show about helping people out and then the stipulation was you had to be available when he needed you. It was a great concept but I think it lasted one season.
You shared my sentiments exactly. What none of these "all junior developers will be out of a job by 2026" proclamations never deal with is the non coding stuff. Sure it can generate a boiler plate app in 1.5 seconds, but can in communicate with a stakeholder about the requirements and ask the right questions to determine the scope and importance of features.? I just imagine my Sales President spending more 90 seconds trying to write the proper prompt before he gives up and calls and talks to a human. There is just no way a C-suite executive is sitting in front of a computer typing in prompts.
They will remain but when they have to charge enough profit to cover the cost of generating the responses, how many people will actually pay for it? Last time I saw 97% of OpenAI usage was free customers. No way to force the 3% to pay for their usage.
When I worked at Best Buy in the late 90's, we were trained on the virtues of Monster AV cables, which they pushed because they were an accessory with high margins. I recall one time when a sales manager cut open a cheaper version of some cables and discussed how it had less wiring and insulation, which I think he did with Monster cable to show the drastic difference. I think they had like 3 levels of quality, the cheap stuff, the mid-grade stuff and Monster. Even though I worked there I only ever bought the mid-grade because the quality to price ratio was great.
I guess a new industry of "prompt engineers" comes to fruition that is just a middle man between the business and the AI. Because we know for 100% certainty that zero executives are going to spend the time to interface with these chat prompts to build the ingestion pipeline. The prompt engineers will just be what we called application developers.
I bought a Samsung "dumb" TV, actually a commercial display from B&H. Other than an annoying popup at the bottom for the terms of service confirmation that goes away in 5 seconds, it is completely off-line. I did connect it to web once to update the firmware, and even then it only had a few apps installed but zero ads. I did reset the network settings and the apps went away.
Let's Encrypt helped reduce our OUTRAGEOUS Entrust bill(legacy vendor, I didn't pick them, they had insane security protocols for a small company who just needed SSL certs). We had a 4 yr/$14k contract for about 11 certs. Now our SSL is near 0, except for a cert for SSRS that is hard to automate with LE.
Brave + ublock origin. Almost never see YT ads and haven’t seen a Twitch ad for awhile. If I accidentally see a YT ad refreshing the page makes it go away.
Watch SlickDeals. I think it was this time last year where lots of refurbs/2 generation old machines were going for massive discounts. Granted they were M1 machines, but some had 64GB RAM and 4TB drives for like $2700. Microcenter and B&H are good ones to watch as well.