The bad news for them is that AI is terrible at getting it ‘right’ the first time, so they have to do things over and over again guessing until it works. So the AI-heavy user pretty much has to just let the commands run to get any benefit since otherwise it’s spending 95% of its time waiting on user to approve commands. Further, it’s likely commands the user doesn’t understand, because they are asking AI to do it in the first place frequently because they don’t know themselves.

I’m with you, but as a result other people proclaim to be ‘better’ AI users largely because they trust the AI. Their stuff is crap and once in a while one of them blows themselves up, but in the short term they are getting praise from management.

Man I can’t wait for the bubble to pop and management no longer being hyped for the sake of hype over it.

Note that thanks to AI upscaling, real photos end up looking a bit AI even right in the phone, particularly if you ‘digital zoom’ hard enough.

Ok, I find this very bizarre. You lament that neoliberal economics is bad but should not be considered disadvantaged?

There’s a reason I explicitly mentioned state aid as an option. So it’s a fair argument because currently they are disadvantaged. Advocating for equivalent state aid wild be on the table

Now McConnell will make a mysterious recovery.

He got to hell and made a deal.

A fair argument can be made that the Chinese government considers EV an imperative and interferes and subsidizes, so it’s not fully free market. Thus any country with industry competing with China needs to decide if they care and if they care, how to respond to advantage conferred by China government policies. Whether that’s similar incentives for their domestic industry and/or tariffs to try to level the playing field.

Broadly speaking people following memorized or planned routes had some clearly dangerous stuff.

Like “I’m nowhere near the correct lane but that’s the exit I know to take so I’m going to get over there no matter what”. Sure I still see it happen, but people that feel good about the backup plan feel better that it’ll get them on track in a reasonably ok way. Yes, presumably the next exit you can turn around, but in some places that could be quite a distance and the gps is likely to sort out a less punishing route.

On the unusual circumstances, practically speaking that’s usually an accident or traffic. However plenty of times you have construction not announced in any way you are likely to know. If they are going to work on a major interstate then if possible they put up a big sign. If they are emergency repairing a pothole, you won’t have warning. Here the most recent parade was due to a celebration about three days after something happened to celebrate. Very little warning and I only knew if that because of listening to local news.

But how wild that confrontation realistically materialize?

A sternly worded letter? That has been so effective in the past.

Punitive tariffs? Trump administration would love an excuse to levy retaliatory tariffs. Remember the nature of the administration is isolationist.

Sanctions? Maybe you get some more pressure, but again the administration trends towards isolationist authoritarian, and has already openly said they didn’t care about the economic problems the people have compared to Iran.

Military confrontation? There no way any of those parties stick their neck out that much for Iran. Similar story for any clandestine operation to take out the administration.

The economic harm I suppose could inspire an assassination attempt by folks resourceful enough to make it happen… But it is a longshot.

Unless those groups agree to potentially face off directly with US and Israel military, there is relatively little they can do to change current US and Israel behavior.

One would think sanctions, but Trump has effectively been doing his best to self impose sanction-like results already.

But your username…

Even as they gripe about terrible GOP behavior, they usually say “but at least they aren’t Democrats”.

Well then you can change the sound of the car. You might have to bypass or add your own equipment, but you can do it.

Doesn’t mean the manufacturer should reasonably be expected to make it even easier.

I can remove the exhaust (on an old car) and drive without it. It’s not efficient and not legal but I can do it.

Then you “can’t” do it by the same logic. Because it’s not legal.

Guess how that plays out insurance wise. Whatever liability coverage you think you have, forget it if you willfully disabled legally mandated safety features. Even if it’s a motor vehicle accident where the noise wouldn’t have realistically made a difference, even if the other party is at fault in practical terms, if they find out your car safety features were tampered with you could be on the hook without help of insurance.

Which is why it can’t happen for a safety mandated feature.

Since the sounds are to meet regulatory requirements, I doubt you’ll see ability to use arbitrary noises, at least for the exterior noise.

After being called on it, he even hired a PI to try to find proof that the guy he randomly called a pedophile happened to be coincidentally a pedophile. He just had a dude investigated based on nothing to blindly hope his insult was somehow prescient.

Well, it wasn’t a rocket, it was at least not as crazy as that, it was some more vaguely credible looking mini-sub enclosure.

It was still stupid, as the diver explained manipulating a still-big, inflexible mini sub through the cave system was not going to work nearly as well as just having scuba gear.

Elon wanted to save the day and got all pissy that his idea was rightly called out as stupid, even if folks were willing to risk waiting for SpaceX to come save the day.

garbage code that people submit and demand I fix because “Claude said it should work”

Man, feel that in my soul. Someone had an issue and instead of asking for help they just sicked Claude on it. Claude replaced an error handling that induced a failure if it didn’t recognize data for management with code that just assigned random meaning to the data and mangled it. But the user insisted it was the right fix because it seemed to work in the moment. Still trying to get a look at the data they have that is causing the issue as they keep insisting the problem is ‘fixed’ instead of the silent data corruption I know it to be. Every freaking day I get AI slop suggestions from people who are unable to assess the slop and asking me to “just fix it, AI did most of the work already”. People who think I can’t ask Copilot or ChatGPT or Claude myself if I wanted, and think their slop to expound upon their point helps me, when I would rather just be fed the same thing they fed to a prompt instead. I’ll AI it up if it will help me, but all they did was bury their point in a bunch of obnoxious fluff.

fix it by abandoning the digital wherever possible and living in the real world. Touching grass, talking face to face with real human beings

Fun fact, an organization around me has started doing in person “job fairs” again, after years of saying “just apply online”, precisely because the online model of engagement has just become useless noisy.

It’s less about the AI and more about how the AI is used by folks. It all boils down to how it lets people who don’t care about the quality produce way more than it lets people who care about quality produce, even as it helps both.

My experience browsing video content to discover new stuff is pretty much ruined. Folks that really don’t have a good idea prompt up crap. AI speeds up folks that don’t care about quality orders of magnitude more than it speeds up people that care about quality, so the flood favors low quality. Then there’s the knockoffs. Something looks like a creator that I liked and I’m not paying much attention and then 30 seconds in I’m wondering why the hell it’s so soul meltingly hollow, then I catch on it’s an AI knock-off riding the wave of a more popular channel.

In software development, folks that formerly trusted in the developers to do the job as they see fit now think themselves experts on software development. They prompted up “hello world” type fodder and now they are micromanaging folks with decades of experience. This happens to some extent with every tech fad, but this one is just way worse. Then there are people who have basically been pundits, high on opinion, low on actionable anything. They’ve always been annoying and pretty much wrong, but you could pretty much tune them out because everything they said amounted to nothing. Yeah, it’s annoying that they get paid to basically talk the way executives like, but at least they didn’t actually impact anything. Now they prompt up their bad ideas into pretty bad concepts, and there’s increased demand to pay attention to “almost realized concepts” that they convinced their executive friend looks good.

In terms of what to change, basically I don’t see a good way other than going back and just not figuring out this tech in the first place. I don’t see a path for leveling the playing field to penalize slop, for the narcissistic know-it-alls to go back to being on the sidelines.