Well, I do have MBSE on the brain, but the idea here is more like a low-code/no-code environment with an ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS “pit of success”… so large that even GenAI can reliably fall into it. Numbered tabs, you go left to right answering questions and fiddling with with prompts, paint-by-numbers for working software.
I imagine that it is theoretically possible to successfully vibe-code, but probably not with a conventional project layout nor would it look much like traditional programming. Something like your interaction primarily being a “requirements list”, which gets translated into interfaces and heavy requirements tests against those interfaces, and each implementation file being disposable (regenerated) & super-self-contained, and only being able to “save” (or commit) implementations that pass the tests.
…and if you are building a webapp, it would not be able to touch the API layer except through operational transforms (which trigger new [major] version numbers]. Sorta like MCP.
Said another way, if we could make it more like a “ratchet” incrementing, and less like an out-of-control aircraft… then maybe?!?
A great idea, killed by coordination overhead.
Excuse me, sir. May I have a quart of cat?
IIRC, I had a PC (since sold) that had secure boot permanently enabled from the factory. That is, in spirit, a PC with a “locked bootloader”, but you might not even notice because many Linux distros have that Microsoft-blessed Linux loading shim… but it is still Microsoft inserting themselves between you and your hardware; they could decide in the next few years they no longer “support” Linux, hypothetically.
I would say simply to avoid buying phones from ad-companies, but more generally… if you buy hardware from vendors that respect ownership (i.e. that have user-unlockable bootloaders) then you don’t really have to worry about this kind of thing, as even if the company turns evil later, you can probably flash the phone with a 3rd party rom.
Noticably? I imagine their skin imperfections would be twice as large… or maybe √2 as large?
I don’t know if this is what you mean, but I find that “Westworld” hits a lot harder post-ChatGPT.
I remember it taking a lot more suspension of disbelief on release, but now much of it falls into the realm of plausible.
Maybe not the “computable consciousness”, but the glitchy hand-wavy “we don’t know how it works either” aspect… at the time it seemed like a mcguffin cop-out, and now that’s like all the new business models.
There is no cat in the void…
I found the structural engineer!
No, seriously though… I’m shocked at how many people don’t recall “building block” level logic (as in the toys for babies). I even find contractors willing to make structural modifications to homes, bluffing their way through absurd structure ideas (where my roof would have to magically be floating in the air) where the consequences include human life.
IMO, we should all see the image on the right as wrong, as the entire surface payload (whatever you place on top of it) is resting on the four fasteners (and a shearing force on a tiny bit of the particle-board wood).
Destroyed by mold. Could not afford to fix the roof leak above it.
Less fluid intake? Then your body will take moisture from the poo.
That thumbnail image reminds me of hovercat: https://youtu.be/p1u-R4RVL70
IIRC, it opens a gui modal asking if you want to give the terminal permission to read the folder. Not quite the same, but still weird and jarring.
Imagine holding a null in your hand… hopefully they sent you only one, and not zero nulls, or worse… -1… and don’t even get be started on imaginary nulls.
When you’re stressing about an opponent, remember that you’re hurting yourself and giving them an advantage. Don’t do that.
There’s some strangely backwards science in there for a website with such a prominent domain, I wonder if it was AI generated.
It’s not safe to feel safe.