I've seen it on Insta as well, but I think the authors use some very clever processing to hide it from the detection algos, and it quickly gets reported and taken down.
It's been about a decade years since many thought full-self-driving cars were "just a couple years away".
Reality is that FSD was/is a "few decades away"
Same for programming. We can take our hands off the steering wheel for longer stretches of time, this is true, but if you have production apps with real users that spend real money then going to sleep at the wheel is far too risky.
Programmers will become the guardians and sentinels of the codebase, and their programming knowledge and debugging skills will still be necessary when the AI corners itself into thorny situations, or is unable to properly test the product.
The profession is changing, no doubt about it. But its obsolescence is probably decades away.
Self-driving cars are a bad example, because we are talking about a heavily regulated industries, with fatal consequences of malpractice, and a tool (the car) that is not easily available to the average person. I'm pretty sure that is the cost of cars would be comparable to what a software engineer pays for claude code, government would relax on the laws, and as a society we would accept a few (tens of) thousands of casualties, self-driving cars would be already here.
You talk about programming that become guardians, but I see two issues with this: (1) you don't need ten guardians, you need 1-2 that know your codebase; and (2) a "guardian" is someone who were junior, turned into senior, if juniors are no longer needed, in X years there will be no guardians to replace the existing ones.
Yes, it is an extreme example, but if your application(s) makes your company millions of dollars or euros, even if you are in a business that is not heavily regulated [1], mistakes or unavailability can cost a lot of money. Even if your company is not that big, mistakes in a crucial application everyone uses can cost time, money, even expose the company to legal trouble. "Self driving" coding in these situations is not ideal.
[1] Even if your domain is not traditionally considered heavily regulated (military, banking,...) there is a surprising amount of "soft law" and "hard law" in everything from privacy to accounting and much more.
A lot of the software produced in big corps is mission-critical. Self-driving cars are an extreme example but I think the same principle applies to banking, infrastructure, even things like maps, since they are used by billions.
Someone smart recently wrote that the key factor is becoming who is responsible for the functionality, not who wrote the code. Who guarantees correctness and takes responsibility when shtf?
I’d add - especially when the codebases are becoming unknowable because of complexity and speed of code generation.
And the code is generated by entities that do not have a distinction of correctness, or reality.
Essentially emergent genies which we know are blind to the world but very capable of putting together well-sounding sentences.
Obsessive Compulsive Personality disorder (OCPD) is actually way more common than people realize, but it barely gets talked about compared to other mental health issues - and it may even be more of a root cause of things like anxiety, depression. and it is often confused with autism.
What’s interesting about this research is that it points to a possible biological reason why something like psilocybin might help, I.e it seems to loosen really rigid brain patterns. That’s basically the core issue in OCPD: being stuck in overcontrol and perfectionism. It’s not a treatment yet, but it does help explain why psychedelics could be useful for this kind of rigidity.
Would love to see more talk about this - OCPD is often overlooked both by the general public and unfortunately by those impacted by it
I believe there master plan foresees a future where batteries are more integrated with a house for decentralized grid storage. But the additional consumer advantage is better hardware - i.e cooking time.
In my experience I have found this to be entirely true.
I find happiness to be "the art of expectation setting", and the "art of reframe".
Mindfulness meditation and introspection help a lot.
But, becoming "good" at this skill comes with a particular loss, of which I have some wistful feelings for.
Life no longer feels like it is happening to me. I do not experience large swings of emotion, great loss, unexpected turns, high highs, low lows. Music doesn't hit like it once did.
I have traded the turbulence of life for predictable, stable growth. It is less exciting, and I have mourned the loss of my previous way of seeing, but I am much happier now.
I relate to this a lot, the unhappiest people I know are the ones who are constantly shocked by obvious events happening in predictable ways. Yes, that car that is itching to get into the lane will, in fact, merge into that lane, why are you losing your shit instead of taking the foot off the gas so they can safely merge in, and instead spend your time honking, yelling, and driving aggressively close to "show them". Weird-ass behavior, and those people never radiate happiness even in a completely unbothered state.
Surprised no mention of space per person.
The sweet spot is not yet fully known to me. But maybe about 8-10 square feet per person.
You want that intoxicating social energy, but people need the space to bop from circle to circle
It’s not doublespeak. Multiple people can share the same role. Downsizing reduces redundancy. The number of roles can remain the same even with a smaller headcount.
I have seen full blown porn on instagram too. Ads. Porn ads. They look exactly like porn ads on porn websites.
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