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If more and more control is handed over to AI driven systems - there won't be much time for reflection with systems reacting instantly or agents prompting humans with "just say the word".

It is hard to imagine - which is precisely how these things become possible because no one will think to put safeguards against such scenarios.

But it seems we as a species cannot control ourselves - the race to dominate is on and it will happen at any cost.

I can see parallels between this race to push AI everywhere and nuclear energy. Parallels in the regret humanity will experience. It's all well and good until things go wrong, and then they go spectacularly wrong - such as in Fukushima.

With hindsight we can all see what should have been done better. At least with nuclear power plants, there was a number of safeguards and it took a sequence of improbable events for things to go badly wrong. Given the lackadaisical approach to "AI safety", I suspect things will start going badly wrong very soon. Time will tell how bad this will get.

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> In the Middle East and Africa, where utility-scale solar already leads at $37/MWh, four-hour storage is forecast to fall a further 33% to $80/MWh by 2035

I'm struggling to understand the numbers here. How does a fall of 33% on $37 make it $80?

This seems like a lazy snipe. They clearly state that they receive only an age verification result and none of the personal data. It would take collusion from both sides to silently enable transfer of user data while publicly stating that they don't.

I have used these KYC services before. There is the option to get access to all user data - but unless there is evidence to the contrary, we have to take their word for it, for now.

As much as I hate the cookie banner, it is this requirement that forced companies to disclose the massive amounts of tracking they are using when anyone visits their site.

ha ha - how do people write these sort of blog posts in all seriousness. Are they perpetually high?

Hmm...how do you stop private thoughts from reaching the LLM? Suddenly you can be prosecuted for thinking the "wrong" thoughts?

Terms of Service with no specified legal entity behind it. But yeah, they'll take payment through Stripe for their vibecoded slop.

Are AI firms going to charge us to write code, and then charge us even more to secure it?!

> We should be more tired than the model

I understand the rationale behind this, but can't help feeling that this is a downward spiral. The software industry has always been a hard place to build and sustain a career because of the pace of change. With these tools, the pressure to increase output is going to grow, jobs are going to be axed - so software devs need to work harder to stay relevant. Weren't these tools supposed to make our lives easier?!

Yeah, I get that, but if you were going to edit some AI slop and pass it off as some high brow opinion piece, at least ensure it makes some sense? WTF is this crap?

According to the article, isn't it the "measurers" that are getting fired? So what is the "Revenge of the Measurers"?