I wonder if Sam Altman has thought about this, or is too busy fighting rape alligations?

You going to prevent people from downloading open-source, noncompliant Linux from Asia or Europe?

That’s the real plan, I suspect.

Will the sysadmins in Congress need to verify their age to use a server?

Yes. Yes, they will.

The mechanical turk, the robot maids of the 70s, etc.

Yes.

But I’m a little sad that I still can’t buy a robot maid or butler.

I figured they would exist by now, for about the price of a vacuum.

I’m not demanding that they actually be any good. We could just program them to quote “The Jetsons” and do some simple vacuum pathing, or deliver a tray full of drinks.

Why doesn’t it just edit files like it normally does?

Haha. Yes.

But it does everything the most probable way, according to all the stack overflow it has swallowed.

Sometimes that way makes sense. Sometimes not.

Yes! This is legitimately one of the ways the bubble may burst. Particularly if the AI gets substantially smarter, and just starts recommending full switches to existing libraries, at a cost of one token, instead of churning out thousands of lines of slop code that require ongoing tokens to maintain.

It’s an infinite amount of money from every customer!

But it’s okay, because there’s infinite money to be saved by laying off technical expert staff.

Probably same thing with Starcraft, but I’ve never tried it.

Oof. Yes. I recall Starcraft II’s tutorial requiring what felt like South Korean world champion commands-per-minute play to get through maybe the third level of the tutorial.

just wish I could play and experience it all at my pace - family life currently precludes me from being able to invest sufficient time to play an MMO.

Wayfinder does this pretty well. There’s some rough edges from where they pivoted in the design, but I got it on sale for less than a single month of WoW, and have been playing through it at my own pace ever since.

I haven’t seen this exact screen, but since there’s very little help in this thread so far, I’ll speculate.

I’ve seen plenty of single solid color screens that turned out to be “fuck you i didn’t like something, have a plain color instead of your image” from some piece of Digital Rights Management software.

If it is DRM, the two approaches I’m aware of are:

• Try to guess what pissed off the DRM, while being treated as an enemy at every level and step of logging and debugging.
• Turn to the clear, communicative, well documented piracy community for help. Note that their solutions may not be strictly legal, but they tend to actually get me access to the thing i already paid for.

“Why is no one having a good time? I specifically requested it.”

So many great lines, and his delivery was perfect.

Yes! His early death was tragic.

We could have had several more Dirk Gently mysteries, and the Guide Trilogy could have been even more inaccurately counted, by now. RIP Adams.

Yes. If steam shuts down, I’ll probably just stop purchasing games entirely.

I am unconvinced that Zuckerberg isn’t personally searching Meta messages to select future Epstein Island 2.0 victims.

“almost right, but critically broken in subtle ways” turns out to actually be more than good enough for many people and many purposes. You’re describing the “success” state.

Exactly. The consequences are at worst a problem for “future me”, and at best “somebody else’s problem”.

AI didn’t create this reality, but it’s certainly moved it into the spotlight and to “center stage.”

Yes. Exactly. In my experience, there’s more code shops that ship shit than that catch their mistakes.

They get a lot of things wrong but there’s so much usable that you can save a ton of time over doing everything yourself from scratch.

Your experience with Junior devs has been quite different from mine.

I work with Junior devs because someday they will be senior devs who owe me a favon, even though they’ve always only costed me time.

Edit: I also work with junior devs because sometimes a tiny corner of my job is both mind-numbingly boring, and also weirdly difficult to automate away.

I assign that work to junior devs because I don’t want to do it.

In doing so, I am wasting the boss’s money, since I could do it faster.

But I consider it but just another part of the price of hiring me, because it keeps me happy.

Can’t have eggs, bacon, Spam and sauage without tbe Spam - it wouldn’t be eggs, bacon, Spam and sausage, then!

Sneakers is the best hacker movie ever made.

Correct.

If the customer isn’t running the same debugger i am, i have no sympathy for them. (I’m joking!)