Meanwhile, there are 9 other referendum questions quietly smouldering on the same ballot, 5 of which target immigrants, so Alberta can contribute even harder to demographic collapse, and the remaining 4 taste faintly of bitter almond.
Dream up a simple question that could proactively help a regular person, then read and compare the actual ballot questions, and it becomes instantly clear how severely Alberta is drowning.
Personally, I have given up, and have decided to give to the c-suite exactly what they demand, to the letter. That ends up as a bunch of AI written code that looks like it does what it does, with tests written to the best of AI’s ability, as fast as possible. I used to care deeply, and we were making strides climbing out of the tech debt that had been accumulating for years, but then AI came along and all hell broke loose.
Our productivity goals are impossible. There’s too much to actually review and figure out exactly what it does, so I just rubber stamp PRs as long as the tests look sane and are passing, and a once-over of the code doesn’t look like anything obviously malicious. It’s a gamble on several levels, but I’ve decided to care about code quality as much as the CEO does. The CTO just bailed out and they aren’t bothering to replace them, which is telling. If they don’t give a shit, why should I? They are already trying to push everyone out and replace them with AI anyway, so why not taste the results of the policy made by slop, for slop, sooner rather than later? Either way we’re out of a job.
After all, if this were a decade ago, they could have just hired a bunch of juniors and ended up with a bunch of spaghetti, basically roughly the same state as this AI code, and they still wouldn’t blink an eye. So what does it matter?
In the end, I see it as a wash. Either the models get better and can clean the mess up, or just figure things out and outright replace large swaths of nfg code all at once, so why do I care… Or the whole thing blows up, the costs are astronomical compared to just having humans do it, and we have jobs fixing the mess that AI left behind.
Even if/when the AI bubble bursts though, Pandora’s box has been opened. It’s been demonstrated that machines can write some semblance of code that compiles and executes along the lines of what a product manager dictates to the machine, as long as they can describe it well enough. Doing so seems to have astronomical costs hidden at this time, so for a while it may be prohibitive to bring things back to today’s scale. But it’s only a matter of time before someone revives it, like Steve Jobs revived the Newton ala the iPhone.
When I think of an automated system that can protect itself, ED-209 comes to mind for some reason.
Your writing is a pleasure to read. Thanks for this.
Through abusing the windows update mechanism, I think
Oh my God, I just checked and me too.
Np. Rereading it now, I’m sorry my wording was so firm and final, but my experience was so terrible I felt I couldn’t let it happen to another person.
I am almost convinced these things are actual scams just to make money no matter the costs, not just a poor product that underperforms. I think they persist because it seems so plausible that it could work, but it just flat out does not, and the manufacturers just don’t care as long as it still sells.
Had one of these over 20 years ago, along the lines of the one you linked. It was positively useless. Never again. The air in your home becomes saturated with water so quickly, and your clothes stop drying because the air can’t accept any more moisture. A lot of heat comes out of the vent, ice or an ice pack would be done in less than 10 minutes, you’d drive yourself insane putting new ice in to condense upon, even if it worked, which it doesn’t.
It might work if you put a couple of dehumidifiers in the room with it, but there is just so much moisture output from a dryer I am certain it would overwhelm them in short order because they are not built for that crazy level of moisture. Also, even though your dryer has a lint screen, a ton of lint makes it out anyway, quickly clogging the one in the kit, messing with the throughput. So you take the filter out of the unit so it can breathe, and lint gets absolutely everywhere. It sucks. Don’t do it. Live with the outdoor noisy vent until you can save for a heat pump dryer. Don’t waste your money.
This is like those mobile ads for mobile games that don’t actually exist. They make fake gameplay footage of a game with a mechanic/idea that they speculate people might like, track the clicks to see how popular the idea is, then only build it once they think they have a guaranteed winner based on the click rate.
No doubt they are doing the same here, collecting stats on what people might like, if only it existed, then getting that thing made. Talk about outcompeting manufacturers. Again.
How so? Are you able to be thorough?