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Man, if you're going to start gatekeeping about pointless tech than a fitness band is also pointless.

Go out and run til you're tired and eat right and you'll get fit.

I worked at a different MAANG company and saw internal slides showing that they planned on being able to replace junior devs with AI by 2025. I don't think it's going according to plan.

At the end of the day, one thing people forget about with these things is that even once you hit a point where an AI is capable of writing a full piece of software, a lot of businesses will still pay money to have a human read through, validate it, and take ownership of it if something goes wrong. A lot of engineering is not just building something for a customer, but taking ownership of it and providing something they can trust.

I don't doubt that eventually AI will do almost all software writing, but the field of software companies isn't about to be replaced by non software people just blindly trusting an AI to do it right (and in legally compliant ways), anytime soon.

Lmao bruh, that thing is the size of a single screw, you expected them to hold it together with what exactly? Of course it's all glued and soldered up.

You realize that simply because of its size, there's less e-waste here than like an electric toothbrush, right?

That entirely depends on if there's an equivalent developed by not an asshole.

Man I just tried to throw out a Chromium fork that didn't use Manifest v3, I didn't realize Brave went off the deep end. Personally I use Firefox and Edge when I need to use Chromium and for work just because I find it's dev tools nicer.

Stop using Chrome, it is adware at this point. Use Firefox or if that's too different, use ~~Brave~~ or Edge or a different chromium offshoot that isn't going to support manifest v3.

It's wild that Amazon wants RTO so bad when they're famous for a philosophy of not letting teams talk to each other directly, and instead forcing every team to publish APIs for their services that other teams can consume.

I mean, sure you could still be collaborating internally with your team but they seem ideally suited to take advantage of remote work.

My guess is that for a lot of big tech companies, half the RTO push was just because they didn't want to have to look like they overspent so much on super fancy lavish offices now that everyone was suddenly happier at home.

Microsoft posted a revenue of $211.9 billion for 2023. Keeping in mind that the vast majority of the world's population uses Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office and loads of online applications run on Microsoft Azure, the economic impact of Microsoft's products is probably counted in trillions of dollars.

Comparing this to countries with the same ballpark energy consumption, Azerbaijan's GDP was about $78 billion, Slovakia's GDP was around $127 billion, and Iceland's GDP was approximately $30 billion in 2023.

The economic output of Google and Microsoft by far exceeds these countries' GDPs, highlighting the vast financial scale of these tech giants relative to their substantial electricity consumption.

Oh yeah, it's crazy to think that! I don't know where I would have gotten that idea, other than the article that OP linked that we're all discussing.

Yes, training new AI models uses a bunch of power, so does building out any new infrastructure. Atleast Microsoft and Google use a far high percentage of renewable power than most other industries.

Don't buy something, and a factory doesn't need to run to produce it. It's not privilege, it's called following a chain of cause and effect.

It was the Stack Overflow developer survey I believe

As of last year ~70% of software developers were using copilot or a similar AI assistant. The legal field has seen a drop off in junior hires because of AI assistants. Snapchat's AI filters and tools have long been a huge draw for that platform (and then copied by everyone else to avoid bleeding users), and Bing saw massive user growth after integrating OpenAI.

AI has problems and limitations but it's absurd to think there's no demand for it just because it's pushed by annoying people. Everything with hype will get pushed by annoying people.