Posts by Snake

Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

Re: AMD drivers

Wow, seriously? AMD is building LLM's into their DRIVERS?! And why aren't they being called out on that?

Windows 11 shutdown bug forces Microsoft into out-of-band damage control

Re: Just ditch Windows

Please, I'm asking respectfully. Please, just stop. Many people can't "just ditch Windows" because [we] have OS-dependent apps to run for our jobs, our hobbies or our hardware. "Just use WINE" is the precise and exact equivalent of the classic "Why aren't you using OS/2?" - same compatibility issues in both hardware and software, and how did that go??

Icon: yes, the flamesuit. But please, please, stop believing that the OS is the end-all on the question of having a computer that does what you need it to. The OS is but one factor in the puzzle, as having a computer with an OS that doesn't run all your hardware or support the apps that you require to actually get the work that you need accomplished is just a fancy electric paperweight.

AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty

Re: privacy?

"Why would anyone process private data on someone else's computer and expect it to stay private?"

You can ask the many, many companies, such as the Tea app, that question.

Trump says Americans shouldn't 'pick up the tab' for AI datacenter grid upgrades

Re: most of the "successes" are real estate...

remember, most of which got handed to him by inheritance from his father. Oh, biiiiiiiig struggle for the Donster there, wasn't it.

Court tosses appeal by hacker who opened port to coke smugglers with malware

Re: Boo hoo

With all fairness to even-handed justice, I would like to see the transcripts to see if his claim involved having a proper warrant to search his chats. I really hope that everthing was done done on the up-and-up and was that was the reason his claim was thrown out.

Ofcom officially investigating X as Grok's nudify button stays switched on

Re: image of Trump having sex with Trump

No thank you. I don't ever want to give him the satisfaction of living out his ultimate fantasy of having the perfect sexual partner.

Re: "asking Grok to generate a naked image of Musk"

At Grok prompt: "Grok, please create nude images of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Liz Truss."

Grok reply: "Would you like some eye bleach to accompany this request?"

Developer writes script to throw AI out of Windows

Re: Good news

With respect, maybe we should be exacting in our language when discussing this topic. Currently, what we have are LLM's and the good news is that (so far) LLM's cannot hold copyright. One day, possibly, when we have *actual* AI, devices with both verifiable self-awareness plus the ability to postulate new ideas from strictly theoretical constructs without mimicking preexisting ones, they may be allowed to hold copyright.

But don't hold your breath for that, it'll be a while. It'll last for a day I guess, then SkyNet will exist...

Claude joins the ward as Anthropic eyes US healthcare data

Err, yeah. That.

The health care data industry can't even get right what it is doing now. Epic Systems, for example, the largest EHR supplier, is utter garbage,

DDG Epic criticism results, Wiki Epic, see "criticisms"

and they want to slop it-up with "AI added" for even more fsckups?

How many *more* people are you willing to kill for your profits, guys??

What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows

Re: "freedom"

And you missed the point of the article. You want "freedom"; the next guy wants "freedom" but how own exclusive way; the girl in the other county wants "freedom" but with her own twists; the developer wants "freedom" so creates [yet another] fork with their own preferences, and finally that org wants "freedom" but with specific dependencies and creates yet another Snappack.

And you end up with 100 messes of everyone's preferences and yet not a single one that has enough userbase to warrant any real industry support at all!

The article says what I've been saying here but dowmvoted by the rabid die-hards. STOP FORKING YOUR DISTROS AND MAKE A SYSTEM GOOD ENOUGH TO GET BEHIND. Stop believing that making an OS will make the world beat a path to your door and *start* understanding it's the *ecosystem*, damnit. Stop thinking that just because it's good enough for *you* means it's good enough for everyone else, warts, unfriendly Ui's, unsupported hardware and all.

I'll get downvoted again, but (as noted) both the writer AND Toldvalds has noted ALL this, yet you choose to ignore it all. Linux desktop is always an "alternative", never a first choice in the marketplace, because of its own failures, it's own best enemy. Stop worrying about gatekeeping and keeping it a tech warrior's sanctuary and start making it a place for EVERYONE, where you don't feel you need a CS degree to master it.

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

RE: America. NOT

"Apparently shunned in US English...

Absolutely incorrect, we use "they" in reference to a construct like a corporation very often, daily actually. But it needs context, an applied-to 'person' or 'group of people', before the appellation of "they" is understood properly. Who is "they", Ms. Jestin or Airbus, or both? It can be as bad as a royal "We" :D

Requoted for truth

"As usual, common sense seems to take a back seat, with managers focusing more on advancing their careers than on managing their systems."

BINGO. Did anyone else besides me bother to check the resume of Catherine Jestin, Airbus's executive vice president of digital? She's a Harvard business MBA graduate, not a technologist, and has been falling upward since graduation.

I'm sure this decision was solely based on expected ROI for "transitioning to cloud-based infrastructure with expectations of dynamic leveraging of future-developed technologies". Yeah. Because things like "security" are never your problem when you can foist it onto someone else.

Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech

Re: too small on its own

That sounds rather pessimistic - it's digital. You can build data centers almost anywhere you can find high-voltage AC power and a water supply, it's not magic.

HOWEVER..

your "too small in thinking" comment may very, very sadly have a point. The typical British industry "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory"-mindset meant that Great Britain failed to save its civilian aviation manufacturing, failed to save its auto manufacturing *and* failed to save its fighter jet programme, so bureaucracy failing to save its digital sovereignty might sadly be in the cards as well. Never underestimate the power of bureaucracy to protect its own paycheque by 'allowing' everyone else to fall on their sword for the cause.

Apple blocks dev from all accounts after he tries to redeem bad gift card

Re: Apple sideloading

"None of this changes the fundamental truth that if you have content locked to an account or a digital ID, in either the Apple OR the Google walled gardens, you are SOL if they decide they don't like you."

No, I've proven that on Android you can, easily, back up your digital content to locations of your choice, only leaving you locked-in to Google for (a) the apps you acquired from the App Store, and (b) the digital media you consciously selected to purchase from Google or any other sources that also lock via Google Play. I have no dependence on Google to get me my content back if something happens, none at all; there is a viable ecosystem outside Google to assure this.

Only *now* is Apple being forced into starting to create the same type of outside compatibility, by your own words:

"he App Store Freedom Act is on its way through Congress"

It's not even here yet, yet you quote it as if it's an option!

Apple is *far* more locked-in than Android. I'm sorry if you think otherwise. If my phone was rootable then I could even use open-sourced versions of Android itself, you can't (ever) do that with Apple.

*ALSO...*

You wrote yourself into a corner. If indeed there are options in the Apple ecosystem to retain data outside of Apple...then why didn't the subject of the article use them? My statement of being "stupid" for 'putting your eggs into one basket' is, therefore, relevant, by your own talking points.

Re: Apple sideloading

The key to this issue is this, from your link:

"Users in regions where alternative app distribution is available"

In the U.S., Apple's home country, the regulations don't exist so your options are not available unless you crack / root your phone. Not everyone wants or is able to accomplish this (my phone is not rooted and never can be, sadly).

So we're back to the beginning: getting Apple-dependency out of your iPhone isn't easy or even guaranteed, depending upon where you live. Android has it built-in...but maybe not for long, as we all know Google is reaching for the Apple-level app lockdown for future releases. I'll say "Stuff off" to Google just as much as Apple once that happens, and make sure all my future phones are rootable so I can install Graphene.

Re: Google Play Store locked out

Not exactly, for as I mentioned Android allows developers to create apps that don't depend upon the Google cloud / sync ecosystem. If you look at my comments I mentioned I have just a few of them. I'll repeat them for clarity:

- MyPhoneExplorer: a sync-to-desktop application that allows backups of PIM data, photos and files to the built-in MPE PIM database or MS Outlook, and to your HDD for personal files;

- MyBackup, which allows you to backup application data / APK install files / photos / media to local storage, SD card or cloud

- Total Commander, which gives SMB-style directory and file access to local storage, and with plug-ins allows access to SMB LAN shares / FTP / FTPS / SFTP / cloud / WebDAV/ Android Transfer and others (www.ghisler.com/androidplugins/googleplay/)

- a choice of web browsers, and in my case I have six (yes, *6*): Google Chrome (stock from factory, disabled, more on this in a bit) / Waterfox / Firefox Focus / Brave / Edge / Tor;

- a choice of email clients, in my case K9;

- a choice of SMS / MMS / RCS clients. I'm currently using Google Messages (my only Google app) but I am still actively searching for a valid, quality alternative;

- NoRoot Firewall, allows app-level and system-wide URL blocking such as telemetry and ads (rather like a PiHole for Android)

So I don't *have* to depend upon Google to allow me, anything much really, as all my data *and* apps are available offline without Google's assistance. I actually have almost all of Google's built-in apps either disabled or outright deleted - yes, that's right, I've removed things like Drive, TV, Photos, Meet, One, Pay, News, and many others. Those I could not fully uninstall I've disabled.

Oh, and BTW, I do *not* have my Google account on the phone; no Google sync is possible at all. I've also *removed* all permissions from Google Play Services so it does not have access to my personal data - no access to contacts, images, files, data. I used to keep Google services turned completely off but a few of my apps insist on getting notifications via Play so I, sadly, must keep Play running now (again, just neutered).

Try all that, pretty much excise Apple from your iPhone and personal data. Good luck with that.

Re: Google Play Store locked out

I'm not a zealot - for example, I loathe Samsungs and what they did to their interface.

It's just that [almost] every time I handle an iPhone I just want to throw it against the wall. It's the stupidest UI I can think of, for most of its existence, but then you zealots claim it "Just Works!^tm".

Years of Home screens that you couldn't organize to your preference, they just dropped icons where they wanted (finally fixed); "Done" / "Back" / "OK" etc step-backwards buttons placed left...no, maybe right...no, maybe both on different screens in the same workflow (STILL not fixed); a "Print" button inside the "Share" menu (why? Just, why??); years of a lack of a pull-down tray with a shorfcut access to Settings, the only way to actually *get* to Settings was play Find the Icon in your unsorted Apps drawers; configurations for accounts, data from which are accessed via apps, in the Settings app rather than in the app itself (still not fixed, I hear)...

You really want me to continue? Now, like I said, Samsung picked up some of those bad habits so it's not that iOS is bad, it's that iOS and the other systems that try to mimic the experience have made terrible, faulty UIX choices. The iPhone hardware itself are usually very nice, very very nice actually, sometimes outright beautiful. It's the *stupid* UIX design choices that make me hate the damn thing, **and** add in the Walled Garden choice? No. Just, no.

Re: Android

Since...WHEN? EVERY app on my Android phone is no charge and enables functionality either equivalent or better than Apple's junk.

You're living in your Apple-brainwashed reality. MyPhoneExplorer backs up my phone to *my* home computer with a choice of receiving apps, MPE's built-in organizer or MS Outlook. MyBackuo saves all my downloaded APK application files to allow reloading any damn time I wish via Android sideloading abilities. Total Commander gives me file system access to all saved files *including* LAN, FTP, SFTP *and* FTPS capability (and yes, I use them all, allowing my phone to be part of the office network whilst at work, allowing direct copy access to birth the entire desktop network and NAS backup drives). YouTube Vanced gives me YT Premium advantages with not only viewing without ads (what's a YT ad?? Haven't had to view one in ages!) but auto-skip functionality of lead-in and out trailers. Waterfox, Firefox *and* Tor browsers.

On top of all that, No Root Firewall allowed me to block many app's advertising and telemetry feeds.

All FREE. ALL backed-up LOCALLY and I can reinstall *at any time* or roll back to saved versions.

And your Apple device??

Yeah. Try again. This is why Apple uses are mocked, they live in DeLuLu Land of Jobs' creation and are *happy* to be there.

RE: buy a license

That's very much a thing on Apple. You know, for those Apple suckers faithful.

If I can't get a re-installable executable, I'm just not that interested in owning it. Killed my Adobe Photo subscription and fell back on CS6, even if it Adobe RAW isn't compatible with my latest camera, just no longer care. I'll deal with the DNG converter rather than continue to give those blood suckers even a penny of my money.

"It's never a good look to sneer at another's misfortune."

If that were true then the Germans would have never invented the word "schadenfreude" :p.

Calling out stupidity is a global exercise and always in good taste.

I can't believe that someone (who appears to be) that smart / book learned would actually think that a corporation, any corporation in today's world, has your interests at heart enough to trust them with the ONLY copies your of digital data.

Really? And I'll [have to] say that again, louder: REALLY??

SMH

It just goes to show you that simply because you went to college, and have your fancy degree, doesn't really mean that you are that smart at all. "Common sense is not really that common", as my boss has said.

Oh, and BTW, that boss is also an Apple user :p

Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future

Re: Prediction

"Memory-maker Micron Technology has predicted that (our) RAM shortages prices are here to stay"

Fixed for truth rather than marketing.

New Jolla phone and Sailfish 5 offer a break from iOS-Android monotony

Re: completely avoid NFC and electronic payments

"I do have the apps for checking my balance and so on."

Both clauses are exactly like me, I'm not trusting NFC or tap payments, thank you very much. I can pull out a card when and where I need it.

Speaking of which, one time I was trying to get onto mass transit and needed to find my (paid-for) travel card. I pulled out my wallet and was looking inside for the card...and the electronic turnstile read one of my tap-and-pay physical debit cards and electronically charged me for the fee 'automagically'.

>:/

Boy, was I PISSED!!

So now all my cards are held in RFID-protective shields in my wallet. I suggest you do the same.

Re: Once bitten...

The article didn't mention trying banking apps either.

If Maps doesn't work then it is possible that location services doesn't work in the compatibility layer, damning many apps out there.

Microsoft research shows chatbots seeping into everyday life

Re: Linux

Aaaaand you went there anyway, even though he asked you not to.

Obsessive-compulsive, maybe?

Trump gives state AI regulation the presidential middle finger

Re: Trump's incompetence

Oh, it goes back way before him.. How long have the peons been lied to yet continue to vote the same way??

Corporate profits the highest in history, average income frozen in comparison to inflation for 40 years (our income has only risen $0.12 versus inflationary costs since 1979). But they'll keep voting the same way, lest they fire the politicians before they can DIE in office.

No sympathies. Hopefully I'll be personally extinct soon enough so who can care?

Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11

RE: Electrolux

There's a complete shame in the Electrolux story, a company cheapening its wares so much that they knocked themselves completely out of the market. I have 3 of the last Electrolux vacuums made and while I love my two Silent Performer-series canisters I hate their cheap attachments, which give glass a run for title of "lack of durability". When the motorized power nozzle on one broke while still in warranty...they sent me an ENTIRE new vacuum, packed and sealed in the retail box with all attachments.

Nice way to kill your customer loyalty *and* your bottom line, guys. No wonder you closed up shop and left that market.

RE: profit

I guess when the price of the cheapest colored plastic accents you can buy doubles, your profits halve. Oh well.

Re: Spyware

I personally think it is the cost: Roomba's were high priced, for quite a while, compared to the competition that has come out since iRobot's early years. A few years ago you couldn't really touch a good Roomba for much under $300 while the other Chinese brands were mostly a fraction of that. iRobot has dropped their prices I see, but I don't think that undoes years of damage from overpriced products with, based upon these feedbacks, weren't actually worth that level of investment.

Denmark takes a Viking swing at VPN-enabled piracy

"Was not received warmly"

Because every politician and minister always checks for Reddit posts, don't you know.

Sadly, an ant farting in the breeze. I'm sure that hurts many Redditor's feelings of importance though.

Do something more than post your complaints on Reddit, even if they ignore that too.

Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from US military spending bill

Re: Why do we permit a system

I keep saying on here, we've got the best government corporations have paid for. It's been proven, time and time again, and time-and-time-again the population continues to vote the same way in order to keep it.

Apache warns of 10.0-rated flaw in Tika metadata ingestion tool

Re: TVs are internet of things now...

We're using a pretty cheap 40-inch Vizio as a security monitor and it doesn't complain when using HDMI input and no internet connection.

Re: Swiss-cheesing the infrastructure

"Ten years ago, the "dog toffee" hype bubble forecasted "50bn IoT devices by 2020".

That's fitting, considering (but not mentioned in most articles) that tika-core-1.13 dates back to 2013. Hey, only 12 years vulnerable, they're on top of the problems.

Re: "NIST wants YOU to secure your IoT devices"

And remember: we all should be praising the ability to put our IoT devices, via IPv6, directly on the internet to allow direct access. IPv6, where IPSec is present but not default, not to mention the question of device-level firewall implementation (if necessary for the instance) and the necessity of updating therein.

Server prices set to jump 15% as memory costs spike

Re: Yay!

Couldn't you make decent bank selling the kit on eBay, rather than just binning it?

Re: Yay!

LOL! :D

But in all seriousness, with "AI" NPU's already adding costs to new computers and now this? I expect a PC sales slowdown especially if these price increases hit quickly (in time for Christmas).

Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

Re: WTF?

That might be a bit pessimistic :p For example, IMHO if the financial industry banded together and said "your Windows 11 telemetry is unacceptable for our security operations!", I would think that MS would blink and create a version without the stuff. Losing hundreds of thousands of seats in a major industry would make them reconsider (well, if they had even a single gram of intelligence left in them). After all, MS created locked-down versions of both WinCE and Win7 for the financial industry, it seems the industry has some pulling power.

Re: WTF?

Until the affected businesses united and complain, nothing will change. Hundreds of millions of individual Windows users might do a lot of whinging but very few, percentage-wise, bother to vent their frustrations directly to MS; getting even a few larger corporations together to gripe means thousands of equivalent user voices and, more importantly, lost face and potentially lost commercial income. The corporate Windows users have the power...but will they ever flex it??

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

Re: Fire sales soon?

When the AI crash happens, Micron will be up shite's creek without a paddle. Dropping an entire product line to go all-in on the flavor-of-the-month only shows how incredibly short-sighted modern business is, going for the best quarterly reports rather than thinking long term. When the AI purchasing bubble bursts, then what Micron?? You'll be behind the 8-ball in the storage market, having to redevelop and ramp up production just to get back into a game where you'll be behind and trying to play catch-up.

This is yet another stupid, insipid, money-grabbing-today / the-hell-with-tomorrow business decision just showing end stage capitalism.

Another open source project dies of neglect, leaving thousands scrambling

Re: the heat-death of the Universe and most likely after

I don't know if that is true. FOSS exists off the backs of hard-working programmers of all types, both professional and hobbyist, but to believe that they will *always* be willing to donate their energies and time is rather presumptuous of us all. FOSS lives by their grace and we can never, nor should we ever, take that for granted, lest we see more projects end up like this one as well as the many, many other open source projects now marked 'abandoned'.

Programmers are donating their mental skills and their time to create these works but this is always based on a human factor: that the programmers HAVE both the mental skills and the [willingness of] time to donate, and either can disappear in a whiff of societal economic or political struggles.

Campbell's CISO canned after lawsuit alleges hour-long rant against staff and customers

Re: just a viewpoint

Just recently I bought my first can of soup in a very, very long time: cream of mushroom, to use as a base for a recipe. Campbell's was an option...so I went with Pacific :p 1/3-less sodium and a brand I could trust more in terms of using somewhat better ingredients. Campbell's soups have an old-fashioned rap that is hard to throw off, maybe just update their packaging to make me feel like I'm not buying both the experience & taste of 1950??

Re: just a viewpoint

Actually, no, VicMortimer statement has factual rationale, do the research yourself.

Over the past number of years, Campbell's Soup has seen a decline in sales, starting from at least 2017 (the earliest articles I could find discussing such). And for quite a while now, Campbell's soups have been called out for high sodium content as well (believing to mask them using less than optimum ingredients). Only in these most recent fiscal quarters has Campbell's stated a bit of a sales comeback, they are stating that soup sales are increasing again as families seek to stretch food budgets and cook more at home. Campbell's faces stiff competition from alternative product declaring gourmet recipes, higher quality ingredients, or reduced sodium. Their stock has been down as they struggle against these corporate problems.

Crocs get the Xbox treatment with sole-crushing price of $80

Re: Only 2.5%??

You are being far, far too generous.

Seven years later, Airbus is still trying to kick its Microsoft habit

Re: MS to Google

I don't understand why Airbus would do such a thing. Take Google, add in the U.S. Cloud Act, stir in data outages due to anything from data center power outages to ISP connectivity issues, add in a pinch of questionable cloud security including factors of industrial espionage to criminal blackmail, and finally top with a thick & healthy glaze of always-increasing annual service costs as data volumes increases...

and you get a ticking time clock on a data disaster. It's only a matter of time before one of those events, maybe even several of them or one I didn't even name, happens to them.

Vibe coding: What is it good for? Absolutely nothing (Sorry, Linus)

Re: RE: can do it

No, I see *arrogance*. I see you people believing that you are irreplaceable inside an artificial construct. I see vibe coding existing, TODAY, in an imperfect error-prone form, and you believing that it *won't* be improved upon because you believe that you are so important, that the "art" of coding is soooooooo beyond any machine's ability to understand, that you won't ever be replaced in that work field.

It is YOU that has flimsy arguments, attempting to gaslight yourself into believing your status. In your blind ambitions to paint yourselves as kings of the realm, that nobody and nothing else can do what you do. I mean, you've all been gaslighting yourselves so far that you even think this of Rust, that no language with built-in guardrails can possibly justify the replacement of your knowledge [in C / C++]. You even know better than this, because "real programmers" don't need guardrails and create perfect, non-vulnerable code, every time.

You don't think I've been around here to personally witness all the hubris?? Years of it. Kings of the Tech Domain, you all paint yourselves as. Even when change is on the horizon, you'll still believe that you are the top dog here and that the tech world will always bow to you. Thousands get laid off in IBM, hundreds laid off here and there, but of course it's the other guy" who isn't needed, a throw-away person who apparently wasn't you guys, the ultra-necessary top dogs. That'll never happen to you. Without you the world would burn.

"Vibe" coding, AI-assisted programming, is here. TODAY. If you don't think that will be improved upon in the following years, instead of assisting and writing low-importance pieces of code, being taught to write major modules, libraries and then even do kernel work, then there's nothing I can say to open your eyes (and your own *ears*, just listen to the AI CEO's and developers in their expectations of what they want their creations to do). This is one of their major goal, they can see the function of it, create machines that can program machines with less errors and less vulnerabilities. They are creating new languages and new compilers to try to assist humans in this endeavor but it will always be limited by the wetware. So why can't we reduce, or eliminate, the wetware problem? Imagine the profits - less workers to pay, more reliable and faster software creation, less long-term maintenance and support overhead, greater profits. You think they're spend tens of billions of dollars on their AI fever dreams to help improve the ability to make fake cat videos and auto-insert replies into emails?? Wow. The end goal of the AI development is to create greater profits by using it to help reduce costs. Coding is just one target, many fields are going to be targeted if the profit motive is there.

Hang on for the ride.

Re: too generalized

Not the coding, no. We can be gaslighted into believing that with coding, but the *code* is codified logic. The development of the *task* to be solved is too generalized and that's why humans will always be involved - the AI has no idea what program is needed, why it is needed, and how it should work to solve these problems.

This is the task of the human operators: identifying a necessity, giving the project scope and envisioning a satisfactory solution. The coding itself is just robotic in nature, currently the humans need to figure out a codified logic path to achieve the goal. This is where AI will be used and will shine, the code is just a "circuit path" to the end. AI will do this well and the humans can then be free to stick to what *they* do well, rather than try to create a logic path that is 100% error-free (which, so far, has never been proven possible). The AI can juggle and test far more vulnerabilities and bugs in a second than a human can do in a week, and that's where its power will be [only] applied.

Re: RE: can do it

Coursework is not the same as "workable implementation", I thought that would be obvious. According to Wiki, 'general-purpose' LLM's were introduced into general consumption in 2018. That's not long, folks.

Listen, I'm not saying I like it or hate it, I am not stating that I have a preference. I'm just stating an obvious fact: vibe coding is already here and will only grow as it gains more experience and corrections. To do otherwise, tell yourselves that AI coding won't be a "thing", is actually denying a version of Moore's Law, believing that the technology won't improve because it doesn't serve your personal best interests or preferences. That hasn't worked before and I very seriously doubt it will work now. AI coding is here and will only become more embedded as time goes on.

Re: RE: can do it

I think the problem is that people are seeing things in black and white - either it's "all AI" or it's "all human". The humans will be like The Matrix "The Architect", the humans must establish the necessity, goals, experience and requirements of a project before an AI will ever be able to program it. The AI will never know what is needed because they do not live in our physically-interactive world, they can not anticipate that which is only a thought process of solving a problem. But to think that only humans can program, which is nothing more than codified logic, is rather silly IMHO - if computers can process the logic to create an output, then computers can duplicate the expected logic paths necessary to create that required output.

You will all simply change your work horizons. You will program less, instead overseeing project identification, project scope, project goals, quality control, testing, implementation, identification of required changes, systems management, etc. You will end up managing more and at the IDE screen less, that's all. The humans will still be required to maintain the systems, as only they can identify the problems and solutions needed. But the AI can do the actual code implementations to get (maybe only partially) to those solutions and the humans will still have to do all their work to make sure it functions as necessary to the required users, and then make sure it continues to do so.

Re: RE: can do it

Of course nothing is 100% guaranteed. But you're being incredibly impatient (how ironic, as I sit on the side of the road waiting for a situation to clear whilst other people complain as i write this) in stating that they've had "years" to fix "AI".

How many years would that be, exactly?? Versus how many years in computer tech to GET here?

AI development, as it stands, is barely a flash on the total computer development timetable. Why are you expecting perfection so soon? The world is still working on polishing the OS cores still out there and how long has that been?

We ALREADY have machines building machines. The motherboard of the computer or phone you are viewing this on was pretty much built by automation - from auto insertion robots to wave soldering, most of the work is done by machines nowadays. Cars are robot welded and robot painted, at the minimum. Machines building machines.

I hate to remind you of this, but programming isn't magic. Every educated society in the world is now doing it, even places we here don't think of: news just came out today that quite a number of the MAGA noise makers are in Nigeria (of all places). North Korea, supposedly isolated, is a major source of industrial web-based attacks. The techies in Big Business believe they are extra-special, the rulers of the tech horizon, but here they are, getting shown up by programmers in sanctioned Russia and N. Korea, just to name a few.

It might not be the "AI" of today, as it stands. But to not believe that, some day, a computer would be able to create the very same code that it is *currently* capable of analyzing is rather foolhardy.

Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain

Re: An Aviation Company Runs Out of Gas?

I would think that this teaches companies to plan mission-critical data centers with diesel fuel *and* access to [natural] gas feeds so that they can have both types of generators available. Even with large fuel supplies, unless you treat diesel fuel it can have problems with long-term stability *and* diesel generators do not like sitting long-term without use (why they have programmed exercise cycles); natural gas-fueled generators are much more tolerant of long-term standby.