Coding is NOT solved
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/36071801
This author trieds hard to do a pragmatic view. He does not mention ethical or ecological concerns (which should matter far more and subject to legal regulation IMO).
Instead, he focuses on the quality topic. His thinking is that companies are doing now a kind of quality arbitrage: Companies can make low-quality code at far cheaper costs, and sellthe result still at human-made prices. Which will only work for so long, he thinks: Customers will demand lower prices. (Easy to imagine a quality downward spiral.)
Which invokes the question: What has happened that people accept lower and lower quality? Is new software nowadays still really useful?
#technology
7668 posts · Last used 17m
Nvidia Adds Record $150 Billion to Stock Buyback
Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days
Discord's PC system resource-hogging days are numbered-- a new 'Game Mode' is coming to reduce CPU and GPU usage while gaming
Creative Industries Have Been Eviscerated by AI, Data Shows: "One of the worst stretches for media employment in modern US history."
How many products does Microsoft have named ‘Copilot’? This is a map with all of them
Phony security rules will make India’s phones less safe
The Indian government has introduced countless rules supposedly to make smartphone safer. In reality, the rules will make phones less safe, and enable further mass surveillance and authoritarianism.
McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
McDonald’s has been using artificial intelligence to dynamically price menu items in the US and some global markets, according to a report by Reuters. This involves finding the “optimal price” to match what a particular store’s patrons would be willing to pay.
This fluctuates according to location, and even stores in the same city can have different cost amounts for the same exact items, according to information reviewed by Reuters. This is basically surge pricing, like with ride-share platforms, but for hockey puck burgers that have been sitting under a hot lamp.
Reuters got a look at the interface that franchisees use to access this technology and it’s pretty creepy. Messages show stuff like “your restaurant is showing MEDIUM SENSITIVITY to price” based on “customer willingness to pay in your area.” Cost differences at nearby locations can be stark. Researchers found that a Bic Mac at a Fresno, California store cost $5.69, but the same burger cost $6.89 at another branch two miles down the road. That’s a 21 percent difference.
Trump and major AI executives sign "morally binding" voluntary controls: "It's almost like a constitution"
Apple’s New CEO Seeks to Make Company Run Faster and Leaner
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS-based software ecosystem
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts
Australia's social media ban for under-16s comes with a "try again" button
Nine months in, the only thing anyone has counted is accounts, and accounts aren’t kids. Australia’s regulator found platforms letting under-16s retry the age check until they passed. France voted a similar ban this summer and its Constitutional Council struck it down: to check the kids you have to check everyone, and the law had no privacy guarantees for the adults. Meanwhile the two big US reviews of the evidence disagree on whether social media causes harm at all.
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts: It’s no secret that one of the things that AI users love using chatbots for is cranking out smut.
Esos Rings CEO Michelle Bisnoff Convicted of Nearly $2 Million Ponzi Scheme
German Court Reportedly Finds Micron Infringed Two YMTC NAND Patents, Grants Injunctions
FBI reportedly declares 'cyber security incident' after hackers steal agents' personal data
Google removes Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store
Google has removed popular psychological horror game Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store. According to Dan Salvato, who led its development team, and publisher Serenity Forge, Google told them the visual novel was removed because it violated its Terms of Service in its depiction of sensitive themes. The game is “widely celebrated for portraying mental health in a way that meaningfully connects deeply with players around the world,” they said in their announcement. Its free version, which came out first, has been downloaded at least 30 million times, while the paid “Plus” version has had at least one million downloads. The visual novel has repeatedly made Engadget’s lists of favorite games over the years.
**alternative download link you can download it from …en.uptodown.com/…/download
Don’t know if it is trustworthy though.
You play download the PC version officially from steam, only android was removed: …steampowered.com/…/Doki_Doki_Literature_Club/ **
