Efficacy plays a role in this effect, but so does unintuitive connections between search terms and results. "Google-fu" used to be a somewhat solid "science" but now small query differences can yield unpredictable effects on results, and the likelihood of remembering the exact query that yielded the desired result is low.
Tangent, I was searching for 3mm spherical magnets last night and literally every retailer's search is total garbage and delivered any kind of magnet you can imagine while occasionally sprinkling in things that were vaguely related to "3mm spherical magnets"
I don't understand how it's useful to anyone, even the companies. I just leave without buying things so why would their searches not just search for the specific thing that I ask for?
> Restrict data collection? It would kill all startups and firmly entrance a terrible provider monopoly who can comply.
That's a terrible argument for allowing our data to be sprayed everywhere. How about regulations with teeth that prohibit "dragons" from hoarding data about us? I do not care what the impact is on the "economy". That ship sailed with the current government in the US.
Or, both more and less likely, cut us in on the revenue. That will at least help some of the time we have to waste doing a bunch of work every time some company "loses" our data.
I'm tired of subsidizing the wealth and capital class. Pay us for holding our data or make our data toxic.
Obviously my health provider and my bank need my data. But no one else does. And if my bank or health provider need to share my data with a third party it should be anonymized and tokenized.
None of this is hard, we simply lack will (and most consumers, like voters are pretty ignorant).
In Canada (on many mortgages) you are only allowed to prepay a percentage per year, if you pay off your mortgage in a shorter window the financer claws back interest they would have made within that term.
I find this interesting - before we switched from 5/4 aspect ratio, it was hard to find the puck because the camera was always chasing - but if you know hockey (e.g., watch enough of it) there are a lot of cues about where the puck is or will be, now that we have a wider aspect ratio.
> If that happens, hardware trust becomes non-verifiable.
Unfortunately I already have to run a binary blob just to play fps games from 10 years ago. I can't even load a new OS onto my phone anymore.
Ultimately I'm not sure hardware sourced from China changes the trust equation very much, at least for me individually. I have much more concern about the FBI, which has recently decided to ramp up investigations into queer people [0][1][2], than I do about foreign powers - at least as long as it's not actively destructive malware or something.
> We will also see talent pipeline erosion.
We absolutely will, and to some degree I wonder if we aren't already with how popular tablets and phones are. I've noticed many young people these days don't really know how to interact with anything on a computer that isn't an app. GPUs and RAM becoming more significantly more expensive will take a huge chunk out of the hobby market and in doing so they will intensify the pipeline erosion.
Modern GPU's often have on device firmware, secure boot chains, microcontrollers, etc. If you don't control silicon design, firmware signing and update pipelines you can't meaningfully attest to what the advice is doing.
For the average paranoid person who is wasting their life on it, sure
But large organizations like defense are all about distributed trust anyway - even if you could verify the hardware, the guy you order to do it is going to be a whole command chain removed and likely a contractor with a clearance in the civilian world.
Whereas your high level political and military leadership having direct contact with managers and designers in production facilities is extremely valuable.
You're screwed. An individual is completely powerless against the combined might of the entire country they live in. Nothing you touch and nobody you talk to can be trusted.
But realistically, they'll just bring out the wrench[0].
plenty of tickets are never written because they dont seem worth tracking. an llm speeding up development can have the opposite effect - increasing the amount of tickets because more fixes look possible than before
When I was first learning Perl after being a shell scripter/sysadmin I produced a lot of code. 2-3 years later the same tasks would be way less code. So is more code good?
Also, my anecdotal experience is that LLM code is flat wrong sometimes. Like a significant percentage. I can't quote a number really, because I rarely do the same thing/similar thing twice. But it's a double digit percentage.
I guess I am luddite-ish in that I think people still need to decide what must always be true in a system. Tests should exist to check those rules.
AI can help write test code and suggest edge cases, but it shouldn’t be trusted to decide whether behavior is correct.
When software is hard to test, that’s usually a sign the design is too tightly coupled or full of side effects, or that the architecture is unnecessarily complicated. Not that the testing tools are bad.
It's also related to the fact that since ~2010, the quality/efficacy of "search" has gone downhill and you'll never find anything again.
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