AI gives us the ability the rapidly speed up development. Great, now we have more time to devote to code quality. Except that is not what is happening. We need to be going 10 - 100x speed. Code quality is no longer a real goal. It seems like the developers who pushed for code quality before AI are simply getting railroaded by the people who quietly never believed in it in the first place.
You might be right. I created a quick and dirty MCP server to expose my existing REST API calls. It doesn't work as well as I hoped. The AI client seems to have trouble determining the mix of MCP tools needed to fulfill a user's prompt, unless a specific tool is defined for that request. Maybe I am missing something.
In defense of SO. I don't think # of questions is not the best metric. Pageviews or up votes is better. If the question already exists, it doesn't need to be asked again. Also, I have the perception that tech stacks have stopped changing as much. Ten years ago we were constantly changing tech stacks and front-end frameworks, so we had to rely on SO to relearn constantly. That seemed to have stopped.
So I wonder if the more generic SAAS platforms (like Azure, AWS) that can offer scaling, monitoring, security patches, etc. will start to niche or industry specific Saas tools. Since the "basket of features" is not what is really needed.
I was at a product developer conference a few weeks ago (will keep the company name private for now), and the speaker asked the room, How many of you are "still" using an IDE to create your applications, implying that if you are using an IDE, you are a dinosaur. I don't believe that but some company leaders are thinking it.
> Odgers wrote: the book's repeated suggestion that digital technologies are rewiring our children’s brains and causing an epidemic of mental illness is not supported by science.
I have a hard time buying this statement. We have plenty of evidence that chronic use of addictive substances lead to depression, and that social media use is highly addictive. So it is not some huge logical leap to conclude chronic social media use leads to depression.
datalist is a good example of something out of the box that gives you 90% of the your requirement, but isn't customizable enough to give you 100%. For example changing the styling. So people end up either living with 90% or rolling their own.
If demand were to be greater, the entire demand line shifts to the right. But demand is generally stable because oil is a neccessity in the short term. This demand line is near vertical which means people/companies will buy a little less when the price spikes, but not drasticly less. People still need to drive to work, heat homes, etc.
There is so much nuance with this. On the one hand, Texas has hot enough days where it is inhumane/dangerous to not have A/C. But also plenty of days that are hot, but bearable. There are plenty of citizens not in prison that live without AC and make due with fans. HVAC systems are ridiculusly expensive. $1.5 billion is about $10K a person. Too bad they can't just give each prisoner a window unit for $200 a piece.
We have groups in our company that do not have access to LLMs yet, due to company beuracracy. Also, token usage is capped, so developers need to be strategic about their usage. This could of course all change. We are swithing from Codex to Github Copilot due to pricing (I think).
Is this new? I thought it was well established the performance gap converges as the race distance increases. The convergance point seems to be between 100 and 200 miles.
Maybe by empowering the small percentage of sadistic humans who want to kill everyone. Or maybe it is more of an academic assumption that humanity will end at some point, and so they give AI a 10% chance, asteroids have a 25% chance, nuclear fallout has 15% chance, etc.
I am okay with people having to transition out of knowledge work into phsyical types of jobs. I only ask they people can have a decent living, with a house and disposable income. If you are motivated and have a path for success, you should be be rewarded with something. Currently there is no defined path for success. I am skeptical that AI would help your frield compete with big retailers, for the same reasons small businesses can't compete with Amazon.
So the vast majority of the population goes down to the lower class. The middle class disspears. After being told to work hard in school and college, we are stuck with back breaking construction work? Is that progress? Does that really sound right to you?
hospital and construction works get about $20/hour. Being a teacher will require going back for a 2nd degree. Is that the alternative for knowledge worker when getting laid off?