sdeframond

After 15 years on the field, I still lack a lot of expertise. Many teams do, as you say.

LLM can save hours of doc reading for non-critical tools that I would otherwise not use. Its also pretty good at "hacking a bash script" in order to test things out. Not everyone is confortable writing bash scripts.

For all the talk about AI making teams super productive, I don't see much talk about AI improving software quality.

It's a shame, though, because I believe there is a lot of potential there.

I mean, quality is easier with the right tooling (monitoring, linters, property-based tests, theorem prover...). But, given limited resources, it can feel difficult to prioritize investing in quality when business is pressing devs to ship, ship, ship.

But now the cost of writing custom tooling has changed. These custom tools might be sloppy because vibe-coded but we wouldn't have them otherwise! Or we might finally have decided to make that investment after too much time suffering from their absence. Now the cost/benefit changed, so why not invest now?

Hmm, what does "civilization" mean actually?

And driver's license

> to set a 20 year expiration on laws

Wait, do we need to pass a law for this?

Developing with LLMs is somewhat more expensive than without. That must be a blocker for many hobbyist.

On the other hand, corporations don't spend much on open source.

It is always difficult to justify a 2h30m commute, isn't it ?

Many people do it. I did it myself for a few years. It sucks.

I agree with your sentiment about bike trails!

> Cars scale, because if on one day for some reason only a single person wants to go anywhere, only a single car will be deployed.

They downscale pretty well, although the roads and parking space are still there. In practice downscaling does not happen much, though.

> If you need to take a bike or walk, then why not just go to your destination that way?

Because it would take me a whole day walking and only an hour walking + train ? Also, not every passenger needs a bicycle.

As for carrying stuff, I do have a small car. I still mostly move by bycicle and public transportation because it is often faster, easier, cheaper and I dont have to bring a metric ton a metal to carry my 80kg of body meat.

The car is for visiting remote places with the kids, for example. Public transportation just doesn't work there, agreed.

For the record I never had any real issue with anyone in trains or buses.

I did have to wait for 2h occasionally when there some accident on the line but I also got stuck in jams for hours because of some accident downstream. So it's a tie for me. This said, I never had to wait for 2h because I missed a bus in a well deserved area.

I believe it depends heavily on the place we live in. FWIW I'm in a second tier French city, about 200k inhabitants.

Where are you?

A strange game. The most likely winning move is... not to play.

Out of order:

4. Most cars move around nearly empty. When there are too many people (often 1 per car), you get stuck in jams. So cars do not scale either. In this regard public transportation arguably scale better.

1. Bicycles, electric scooters or even walking answer 90% of that concern unless your city is designed against its users.

3. When you need to carry lotta stuff then yes, use a car (either yours or rental). Does it justify bringing your whole car when you do not need to carry anything?

5. True, but I am concerned about what that means about your relationship with society. Or the society you live in.

2. You would NOT wait up to 2 hours in any decent public transportation system.

So yes, cars are still the best solution in some cases. No one argues against that. It is just a poor default.

"This is not a safety-optimized car"

Indeed, even for the demo they did not put a human inside.

IRL I can think of so many failure modes it makes this "car" unpractical for anything but a tech demo.