Frankly who cares about dildos when your personal freedom and private property of you and your family is at stake.You can buy uncountable dildo models in a shop.
I recently was in Venezuela, I have been in Cuba. I am a native spaniard. There you have a group of people that took control of the weapons in the country and uses it to basically enslave the rest of the country.
When the people in power have automatic weapons and you don't there is basically nothing you can do to defend yourself from the abuses of power.
That is a real thing the people in power have wet dreams and would love to do in any country, including the US.
As an engineer myself working for them 20 years ago, we were certainly not well paid like the article said. Quite the contrary: I was still on University(had not finished the final project) and had to do most of the hard technical work myself for someone else to just overview the results and sign. My salary was miserable.
Once I had finished I could earn 3 to 4 times more on several places.
They were also extremely creative taking foreign systems, studying the patent and modifying it to pay zero to the creators of the patents. This was done with things like the aluminium beams for electricity delivery that I think was developed by Italians, or the tunnelling machines that had all the pieces replicated inhouse.
Every time I see entitled people crying because of the prices of a Rasperry Py I remember my first computer that had hundred of megahertz's speed and megabytes of RAM.
I could do very useful things with that machine. So it is not the end of the world if we have to go back to a world when you merely have thousands of times more memory for 4 times less money.
It could even be positive if it forces people to be more efficient writing code and wasting less resources.
As someone that has done snowboarding and skying in Central Europe, the paradise of snowboarders and have been friend of profesionals, you probably don't want to be one of them.
It is one thing to go carving whenever you want, where you want because you have a good job outside it. Another totally different thing is spending all your time training. Most people will hate that.
Everybody wants to be a tennis player when they see one player raising the cup and earning millions. But a professional player spends most of her life doing extremely boring things. And only a very minority get enough money to live from the sport.
It is kind of ridiculous to link working from home to working alone, specially after the braindead strategy that was applied by politics on COVID, like forbidding going out in controlled groups, like you could do in Japan during COVID without problems.
Going out for a walk alone to the beach or the mountains was forbidden. It was so ridiculous. And of course I went out anyway and it was essential for my health and sanity.
I have been working from home for a long time. It gives me freedom. I don't have to waste hours moving most of the time, and time with friends and family that I choose.
When I worked in an office I had to spend one hour moving in and one moving out each day.
This study is equivalent to the drugs study done on caged rats. The caged rats being humans during pandemic.
It was discovered later that if you let the rats freedom and the ability to socialise they did not get as anxious as when caged and they did not look for drugs for escaping their miserable lives.
The main problem the US has is food. As a Spaniard myself, every time I go to the US it is really hard for me to eat well. Good quality food is extremely expensive and inconvenient (full of friction) compared to Japan or Europe.
The solution are not better Hospitals to deal with your diabetes or cancer after all your food has sugars it should not have like corn syrup because sugar is cheap. You have so much additives in your food for preservation. Meat is full of Hormones.
Antibiotics on your vegetables that destroy your microbiota. Genetically Modified to fill the fields with pesticides.
Now Americans are obese as they process the growth hormones from their meat and their microbiota dies from the antibiotics they eat in their vegetables and their meat.
Waiting until your children has autism or asthma or cancer is not the solution.
I don't thing the problem is AI, but the mindset and trainning. I have probably as many or more AI projects that this man has but they are extremely useful, even if most of them I won't even sell.
This is like a kid playing videogames instead of studying, you take the console away and force the kid in front of a book and the kid will spend most of his time looking at the wall and dreaming.
I am engineer with very deep programming background that have managed people, with real experience in the real world.
One of the best things about AIs is that you can test crazy ideas and create prototypes very fast. Only one in a hundred will work great in the real world, but you have to create the 100 before to know.
Creating the 100 before AI was extremely expensive, and took so much time.
For me it is liberating and gives me focus because I can spend so little time testing prototypes and spend real time in what is really important and works.
This is something I learned from game developers: If you are going to create a game, you spend a weekend testing the dynamics and the gameplay of your prototype to know if is is fun. You use boxes, no textures, no complex sounds of music.
Then if it works and is is so fun, you create the game! You can spend 2 years creating the game after that.
You don't spend two years doing a Game only to realise later that is not fun, and you either spend 3 more years or abandon it at this moment.
Exactly. That is what we do. We do software that can kill people and it is very sophisticated, like controlling robots and we prototype using LLMs and it is amazing.
People believe that you can only use LLMs for sloppy programming. But you can also use it for writing ten times more code of Swiss cheese model tests, and domain specific languages.
You write ten times more code than necessary and all that extra code is testing. Projects like SqlLite do that because they need to be perfect.
Before LLMs we had to use engineers for that and it was a painful and repetitive work, and they were always late and made much more mistakes than LLMs, specially because it was dull and tedious for great engineers to spend their time into.
Now we write tests and when all test pass we write new test for checking the tests.
We divide each complex problem in small subproblems and we warrantee each of them by formal means. We have multiple ways of solving the same problem, usually with one brute force solution that is simple and warranted to work but inefficient, and we can use it to compare with more efficient methods.
Before machines could do that, people doing that were burned down and exhausted, and always leaved pending work to complete.
Actually there are more planes flying today than ever and the number of accidents is very very low, thanks to technological planes and protocols that lean from mistakes.
So low in fact that the majority of the recent "accidents" look like suicides from the pilots. The pilots know exactly what they are doing when crashing the planes.
Please listen to Isaac Moreno Gallo. 99% of the Roman Roads had no big stones on it. Only near big cities you have the stone pavement, basically in the cemetery that was outside town alongside the road.
People with very little idea about engineering wrote the textbooks of the past and some of the wrong ideas are transmitted even today.
For people that have been programming for 20 years, AI is not an issue, on the contrary, it can work for you as you become older. They have trained enough.
For young people, it can destroy them if they stop practicing hours every day, outsourcing all their work to the ai, as they will start losing contact with the reality they are controlling.
But that depends on the personality of people. One of the best uses of LLMs is creating trainers for practicing what you need. For example, I have created programs for practicing my Japanese and Mandarin pronunciation, for practicing chords and note recognition with MIDI, and playing of sheet music, practicing IPA, my handwriting...
Usually I buy some software that does more or less what I want, but them I realise that I need a specific feature the software does not have. So I create the trainer for personalization.
It will be impossible for me to do that without LLMs. There is no time in 5 lifetimes to do that by hand.
Wow. That looks really painful. I have multiple pianos, always used cable because I wanted it to work without problems in Linux and Mac. Also I can't stand delays.
I have created 20 utils or so with the help of Claude, in order to practice multiple things like reading sheet music, or rhythms, or different scales. I never expected it to be that useful as my new Yamaha was bought before Claude existed, and having a cable that just works is so great.
I have spent way less effort doing all my utils than this man into just connecting its machine.
Before using it with Claude I used them a lot with Synthesia and GarageBand, but with Claude is like having a personal trainer.
People are not perfect. I went to Ukraine just days before the invasion. Travel and Hotels in Kiev had become extremely cheap. You asked the Ukrainians about the possible invasion. "Not going to happen" everybody said."Russia talks always aggressively, but never does anything".
They did not properly prepare and as a result lost 20% of its territory in days.
Days after that I was back is Austria and could not stop thinking about some of the people I spoke with being dead.
Since that I have also been in Dubai and Saudi Arabia as an entrepreneur and engineer. "What are you going to do when drones are used against your infrastructure?" If you followed the Russian war and first Iranian strike it was obvious that drones were going to be used against them. "not going to happen" again.
The have lost tens of billions for lacking proper preparation. They could have been protected spending just hundreds of millions of dollars over years.
Are you American? Because if you are from the country that dominated the world since WWII it feels different than being from the rest of the world.
Bretton Woods gave the Americans an "exorbitant privilege" that basically meant the US could live extracting wealth continuously from the rest of the world.
Then later the petrodollar system was established. People needed oil, the US would protect the Arabs with its immense army (financed with the dollar system) and in return the oil had to be sold in dollars, so all the world needed dollars if they wanted energy.
The US could just print dollars, and the rest of the world would suffer inflation.
That was great for the US for sure. Why not continue? Because the rest of the world do not want to continue supporting the US system.
The US was ok with Sadam using chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians until he decided to change the currency for paying the oil to euros.
The US does not want to de-escalate if that means the world stops buying US bonds and suddenly they are bankrupt and can not pay its debts exporting inflation to the rest of the world.
If Americans suddenly lose 50 to 70% of purchasing power then there will be war inside the US, not outside.
I have a different opinion. I had access to real terminals when I was young and they had amazingly sharp fonts. They had hardwired optically etched fonts and were incredible. 100% smooth.
I had to work with DOS screens that were sketched to different aspect ratios and blurred and it was so painful, specially after having seen proper fonts on the screen.
One of the reasons for starting to use Linux was using high quality fonts with the terminal.
The ship has sailed. Vibe coding works. It will only work better in the future.
I have been programming for decades now, I have managed teams of developers. Vibe coding is great, specially in the hands of experts that know what they are doing.
Deal with it because it is not going to stop. In the near future it will be local and 100x faster.
This is not gain at all. At least in theory: You own some tons of gold at the start of the process, you have the same tons of gold at the end of the process.
The only real gain is that you have gold in the US custody and the US can be tempted to just use it without telling you anything.
In other words, you had "paper gold" or "virtual gold" that the US can confiscate anytime, for example after invading Greenland, blackmailing France to do nothing.
If you want to sell your app you will need to explain it for humans, like this guy is doing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROEJe-nBmqQ
You will need to get better at public speaking and telling stories. I recommend going to your closest Toastmasters club.