He did try to warn us: /s

For anyone else it's unproductive rubber necking

Thermodynamics is like that.

And the rest of us would rather deal with our own lives than your preference to sit about reflecting

That's why I am all about robots doing the work; at least up to filling stores with textiles, food, building materials, and leaving everyone's "day job" to staying out the way of others who just want to experience consciousness and die.

Have worked among the people for 30ish years; started on farms, got degrees in EE/CE, worked in hardware/software; we are going in circles so drop the rhetorical pretense.

It's western vanity fueled by old allegory of religion about forever life and prosperity; my decades of experience studying applied physics and watching software engineers circumlocutions but now using fancy new JS lib! are little more than a scratched record jumping backwards to the previous groove

Let go of software dev; as is a mechanical task from the 60s-70s

Cultural memory begets cultural conservatism

This is why there's such an issue with holding power to account nowadays.

To really fuck up, you need a computer.

-- some clever person whose name I do not know

"Realistically you want fewer, higher-quality engineers who are educated in these tools and treat them with respect and caution. These tools are dangerous and you can’t play around. All it takes is one mistake and the blast radius is way, way larger. One mistake can do so much damage it undos all value of an entire year. Before downloading a malicious dependency was limited to deterministic behavior and could be scanned for. Now, you run a MCP server locally, it can prompt inject (in many different ways), and now your super powerful AI buddy is hacking you in ways a deterministic piece of malware could never. You could cripple entire companies through negligent use." And "And now we are controlling models that can be hacked in so many different ways and literally blow up companies. It used to be accountability the software wouldn’t break. Now it’s accountability that in creating the software we don’t ruin the business."

Not saying this was caused by malicious actors or negligent AI agent usage nor am I saying was the previous Microsoft outage either the above references but it doesn't look great. If our technology is really so brittle, we might be looking at a return to way slower world to put it simply. Maybe no remote work because it gets hacked too easy!