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I think another example of the second kind is Tesla. Most (all?) of the board is loyal to Musk and not Tesla, as far as I understand it.

The general problem I have with this is that I think those C-level executive should be doing C-level stuff and not programmer stuff. If you're using AI to help with your main job, great! If you're using AI to do someone else's work, then I think maybe you should change jobs. If you want to be a programmer, go for it! But not at the expense of your "real" job.

I'm pretty sure the C-level people don't want us programmers faffing around with their roles. Why are they encroaching into ours? Don't they already have enough to do; setting the direction of the company, making sure it's profitable, selling things to people, etc.?

Yes, gmail filters are VERY good.

This is pretty cool. I recently purchased some used rims for my car and they have some pretty bad road rash (scratches). I've been playing with TinkerCAD for a bit trying to create a sanding block that would conform to the rim and the bead but it's been harder than expected. Printytron knocked something out in 3 requests and I think it will work pretty well. So, thanks for this project.

If these models can be converted to a parameterized FreeCAD model (or something similar) then it would be cool to be able to download them and change them dynamically. Say, I want to sand down my 22" rims. I wouldn't have to rerun Printytron, I could just change the parameter in the FreeCAD model. Of course, this could be a paid option.

Wow, that’s a great idea! I loved keybase back in the day and really thought it solved a real world problem in a unique and interesting way. Then Zoom bought it (for some reason) and left it to rot.

All of this secret back and forth with pricing and models and such is really giving me the willies. I'm very much not on the AI bandwagon but I can see that it has it's uses. However, I'm starting to think that maybe it's all just a smokescreen to allow these big companies to do something more ... nefarious.

Are they just playing with parameters or are they doing something more? Is this really like a JVM, where there are thousands of knobs to turn and buttons to push and is' nearly impossible to make the right choice? Are they capturing our data and thoughts and dreams only to turn them back on us in the future?

I think every day that passes causes me to trust "AI", and the companies behind it, less and less.

I haven't upgraded to WiFi 5 yet and it looks like being cheap|lazy is paying off.

Seriously though, this is some pretty interesting|scary stuff. This new technique doesn't require any modifications to the WiFi network at all and can even be done without authenticating. It looks like someone could just sit outside the building and track people's movement through the walls.

I can see AI being a problem and a solution in this case. My view is that most "corporate" coding is not developer bound but PM bound. So, AI doesn't really accelerate development that much. However, in something like the Linux kernel we have lots of people working on lots of little things all over the place and I can see AI allowing a lot more code to be written.

Of course, the downside is that the maintainers have to wade through all the code and not all of it is going to be great stuff. In fact, the easier it is to generate the code the worse the quality will be, I think. So, just like everything else, this is a double edged sword.