marcus_holmes

This. I've experienced the same. And I haven't met anyone who just sits around doing nothing, given the opportunity.

It sounds amazing if you're being forced to work for a living. But actually experiencing it, it gets really boring and you start looking around for something to do.

Fair questions.

But we answer those at the moment with equally inadequate answers: your parents owned the nice mansion, so you get it (though that also includes "so your older brother gets it" just to be really unfair). Also on the other end of the spectrum: your parents messed up your education and traumatised you, so no mansion for you.

It would be good to work out some system that could answer these questions on a better basis than that.

So you spend time fitting the cartwheel you had handy to their 18-wheel truck?

We have different wheels for different use cases. You can't use the same wheel for all of them.

Everyone always ends up fighting the framework. Work on a project long enough and it happens every time. It's understandable because the framework wasn't designed with your project in mind.

But developers tell the company to use it because they need it on their resume for the next gig.

I've seen sssoooo many startups use tech stacks that are completely unsuitable for their use case, but the developers are keen to use that stack because it's the latest hotness and it looks good on their resume.

The average software product is worse. Lots worse.

And half the software products are worse than that.

Any organisation that said "let's move fast and break things" is now busy finding out what's actually broken.

maybe it's more like banning smoking - stopping a smoker for 8 hours a day would definitely positively impact their health, even if they find it incredibly annoying.

yeah, that makes sense. Be interesting to see how that study goes.

And ofc AI is busy messing all of this up.

I think the point is all the "kids are getting damaged by phone use" talking points. It's using the school bans as a useful study; we can see what happens to kids if they're not allowed to use phones here.

iirc a similar study on the Aussie age ban is finding similar results; basically no difference. Some kids benefit, others suffer.

Agree that a study on grades would be useful too

I've seen no evidence that they favour making the right things at all ;)

Lots of evidence that they favour making the thing that the executive wants made, regardless of what the nerds pushing the nerd-buttons think is the right thing.

So can we conclude that if the AIs break out of their sandboxes and take over the internet, they'll probably sit in little committees working out which one of them should allocate IP addresses and generally be extremely bureaucratic and ineffective?

Google's UI is always bafflingly overcomplicated and opaque. I never understand why such a large bunch of very intelligent people cannot create a useful UI

Isn't this the original point? The workplace is getting AI-ified, so there are lots of people who are unwilling/unable/uncomfortable changing the way they work to deal with it.

I don't know why you're being downvoted, this is absolutely true.

I had a boss early in my career (around 1990) who considered typing effeminate and was mildly horrified at what the world was coming to with all us guys who were cheerfully using a keyboard. He had a secretary who did all his typing. This was ~5 years before email became common, but I'm sure he would have had all his emails printed so he could read them properly.

meh, they had cavalry and muskets before, and most of us couldn't read. Still lost.