Management is always managed by the Peter Principle.

But it’s pretty fun when the customer says your program does it wrong and you pull out that old Excel, plug in the data and their Excel does exactly the same as your program. It makes the discussion about billable hours a lot easier.

Dump to an Excel sheet and ask them to make a formula for “active”. A client that can’t use Excel deserves to be teased and be charged extra.

Even SQL was originally called SEQUEL, Structured English QUEry Language. They got sued for the name and changed it to SQL. It was also pitched to retrieve data with plain language.

It’s very common. Every few years there is some no-code platform claiming no developers are needed anymore in any sector, not just web dev. Invariably these only work if you stay on the narrow path and of course the customer asks something outside of the easy path after the first demo so a lot of work by devs are needed to make of happen.

AI is just one more like that, but with hype on steroids.

They really want to force gamers to buy their new games which are pretty much like the old games but now with extra helpings of ads, gambling mechanics and micro transactions on top

In this instance he is marketing what the final product is meant to do

He’s been doing that with full self driving for the last decade and the event showed it might be a decade more. It doesn’t give much confidence.

Ah yes, the “when brute force isn’t working you ain’t using enough of it” approach to AI.

It’s not such as impressive amount of power compared to existing installations. Say 75 kWh battery. 80% of that would be 60 kWh, charged over 9 minutes. That’s a 400 kW charger. Meanwhile 300 kW are reasonable common and there are a few 500 kW chargers out there. A 500 kW charger would charge the car to 80% in 7 minutes.

Camera pans down to the lower levels. Dark illuminated streets are visible, illuminated by sparse sunlight that manages to find cracks in the starship like road above. Flickering mismatched neon signs offer work, with long lines of broken humans waiting to find any job not taken over by AI and Optimus robots.

Where I live, there is a bus driver shortage leading to cancelled buses and limited service. Cyber cab, van or bus that runs the route outside of peak hours to give 24/7 service and monitor routes would be a big help. And it’s a fixed route so the system can be optimized for those.

Normally it’s always promised next year, so a 2 year deadline means the project is in serious trouble.

Now he can finally automate the Vegas loop. It would be not that more difficult then this demo, with nice open tunnels, no traffic, no pedestrians. Let’s first see how this thing handles a city with busy traffic.

20-30k for an Optimus robot. Yeah, and the cyber truck was also 10-20k more expensive than promised so doubts about that price.

Israeli parts

Put an iPhone against his head,

pulled my trigger

Now he’s dead

The front fell off.

It’s an advanced AI. Surely it can do an Israel and remotely detonate the smartphones of the people it doesn’t need anymore.

Perhaps a daisy wheel printer is an acceptable middle ground

Almost everything tech bros say is to boost short term share prices. Any resemblance to the truth is coincidental.

Now we just need to use the user information to check their net worth, and if it’s above a certain amount it needs to hover a quest marker above that person. I’m curious to see how long before privacy laws get stronger.