Hype has become culturally embedded into the tech world unfortunately. There are whole ecosystems incentivized to hype the next new wave of whatever in hope of monetary or other gain. After this there will be something else so best to practice maintaining a reasonable perspective on tech advancements. I agree its annoying but am trying to use it as a tool where its useful.

Can't wait for all the consulting jobs on AI generated software that "we can't get the AI to add any more new features to correctly" and nobody knows anything about the current code.

That's why OpenAI will also sell support contracts to debug and fix what their tools produce. Some occasional broken code isn't necessarily a problem if it can lead to more sales.

Vertical integration.

we already have this sort of company

it's called infosys/accenture/...

Yes, but those companies still have to hire people to do the breaking and fixing.

OpenAI could become a fully automated business ouroboros.

Personally, I think I'd rather be unemployed at that point.

Imagine the nightmares possible of 30 years of layer on top of layer on top of layer of AI written legacy code in an international business O_O

We're not talking about millions of lines of code anymore, that'll be hundreds of billions of lines of code.

Then you'll get private cloud AIs that solve enterprise-scale AI spaghetti code for an enterprise budget...

Some consultant will to come in to tame the AI because employees just kept stacking more and more and more and more code on top of itself to add new features. Features interact with one another and behaviour of older code changes. You end up with some kind incomprehensible singularity spaghetti.

Will be fun to be an AI-driven product maintainer in the future!

That sounds incredible. We should freeze AI progress right when that becomes possible. We would never advance beyond that point. I would be paid handsomely to fix the spaghetti code.

Then the hourly rates will really hit new highs. I'd like some of that pile of cash.

They do technically have coat hangers in back but they pop out.

Parking lots, especially in cities like LA, are not going to be repurposed into green spaces if this comes to fruition

It’s not impossible. Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square used to be a two-story parking garage.

Lonely introvert... as an introvert myself I find this to be an oxymoron

Pretty close to 100% of introverts desire some form of friendship and companionship.

Being shy and uncomfortable in social situations doesn't mean you want to be forever alone.

There's at least two conflicting definitions of introversion though. Some think that it has nothing to do with shyness and is just a preference for solitary activity and being reflective and reserved. However even in that case it would be extraordinarily rare for a person to not ever want anyone else in their life at all.

In the medium to even sometimes short term, clean code IS what allows you to ship features to users quickly and efficiently.

I see Neuralink as just a next-gen version of deep brain stimulation where we could have a lot more stimulation nodes than 1 or 2. Just that could be quite exciting as it is already known that targeted electric stimulation in the brain can do a lot of positive things for those who can benefit.

Even though I enjoy work mostly I've learned to take a mental tally of the hours and stressful moments vs. pay. In my personal situation it seems to me that certain promotions aren't worth it. Basically I don't think its worth it to me to take on extra responsibilities that I'm not going to enjoy for a marginally higher compensation. That means I'll never be high up in the org chart but thats fine. Based upon what you are describing I'd decline the promotion and it may push them to negotiate higher compensation for the additional work.

Thanks. I agree with you. I dont think I can decline it since its already reflected in the system. That will look odd. Negotiation wont look good either since they dont have the budget. Anyways lets see.

Is this true? From my memory, many car brands were only good for 100-150k miles when I was a kid. Now it seems like just about all cars made in the last decade are expected to be viable to 200-300k miles

It is funny, how here in Russia there are a lot of talks that modern engines need rebuild after 100K-150K of KILOMETER (not miles), we could not buy car with "million-worth" engine anymore!

It is very common view, that modern cars are much more safe, comfortable, ecologically sane, faster, and even reliable in first 1-2 years, than old ones, but they will break up and require very expensive repair (engine re-sleeving or re-boring with full rebuild) much, much sooner than older ones.

Possibly social pressure for environment (fuel efficiency, exhaust regulation) affects the reliability. For example, some cars now uses 0W-8 oil.

Yep, it is understandable.

What is interesting to me, that USA users write about new cars that they expect 150K+ miles from them and it was not so in the past. Completely opposite to what users think here.

"Will they use their position to artificially inflate the price of electricity"

Maybe but they have significantly less power to maneuver with solar, batteries and on-premise charging. All property is potentially a cheap gas station and for those that don't own a home with cheap electricity or solar, I'd guess that the market would respond with some form of airbnb for charging if prices at charging stations got too out of whack. Shell doesn't have the ability to create the strangle-hold that is possible with gas.