Well... It's got that potential, that's for sure. It could pretty easily be pushed straight past that line into "awesome" if not for those absolute clowns "at the top" holding it all back decades behind where it should be, all to play their little game of "He who dies with the most money wins" at the eventual expense of all life on Earth (at the rate they're going). It's just so sad the petty misuse and waste of resources the ultra-richest of the rich are choosing to be. Actively working against the betterment of themselves and the world around them, for the most insane reasons, when they could be using all this amazing tech to build a genuinely better world for themselves and everyone else.

Honestly, I look at where technology's gone since my early days (300baud acoustic phone modems, 64kilobytes of RAM, 1Mhz 8bit CPU days) being utterly fascinated by how actual science was so quickly catching up with science fiction (Star Trek being one of my bigger influences in that area of interest), and I see so many truly amazing things that we've invented / built along the way; if we were a more cooperative society instead of "Law of the Jungle" hostile greed-driven society, we'd already pretty much have that Star Trek reality today (minus the faster than light travel bit, as that's apparently "impossible" according to current theory and math AFAIK).

We've already got a bunch of Star Trek level tech, and we could have most of it I suspect. 3D printing? Not terribly far off from ST: TNG "replicators". LLMs? Not too far off from the Star Trek computer interface. Smart Phone? Pretty much a Star Trek PADD (tablet computer). Tricorder? Well... Smart Phones are gettin' pretty close. A few more fancy sensors would pretty much do it. Holodeck? Well, that one's a bit more tricky, but who knows where VR would be today in a society that wasn't totally 100% beholden to the cult of money?

I'm personally amazed by what "A.I." is actually capable of, but I have a fairly solid understanding of what's going on "under the hood" of it, and therefore have somewhat realistic expectations of it. Then I see folks go overhyping it's capabilities because they've drunk themselves stupid on the lies they've been told about what it is and what it's capable of (and it's simply not capable of what the liars at the top of the A.I. corporations are telling everyone). Just try to temper their enthusiasm with a bit of reality and you're instantly "anti-AI" or "doomer" or some other just completely wrong characterization. At this point I'm convinced that for a lotta folks, A.I. is just another literal cult just like politics these days, or crypto-coins not that long ago... Drink that kool-aid, I guess... ~shrug~

I also don't think that many of the so-called "anti-AI" folks are so much against AI itself, as they're against the unethical ways that certain folks "at the top" are using it to do massive harm in an attempt to try to satisfy their bottomless greed and lust for power, and against the ways that some other folks are using it to basically escape the need to think at all, even when their job requires actual thinking.

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-move-up-one-url-level-in-chrom... *shrug*

Hence why traditionally farmers either had large families, hired outside workers, or most often did both.

(Source: I grew up in rancher/farmer territory and earned some of my earliest "spending money" working for local farmers or ranchers during harvest season.)

You can't until the overlord(s) you've delegated all your thinking to tells you what you saw.

Several folks here suggest doing exactly what I did back then, and truth be told, it'll likely work today just as well as it did back then. Tell the customer straight up why it's a bad idea (just be honest and forthright here), and make clear that you'll be charging extra for the very much different skill of cleanup and debugging the "tag soup" garbage that DreamWeaver (or in this case "vibe coding") will produce when it inevitably fails to deliver the result they'd hoped for.

Then step back and find other work while you wait for the windfall as your prediction plays out exactly as you warned them it would. If it doesn't, then "good for them". Be happy for them that they're happy, and be happy for yourself that you found other (less stressful) work. Win-win, either way? Either way, you're working, they're happy with (or at least getting) their hoped-for result, and nobody's stuck with something they didn't really want (other than perhaps your inflated rate for blithely altering the scope of your task).

Fact is that they're paying you for your expertise, and if they choose to ignore that expertise when it really matters, it should cost them to access more valuable expertise when it comes time.

Doesn't it though? Especially when your profession involves the security of a nation and you can't even secure your own personal email account successfully?

Already in the act of being done; Just not in a way that's friendly to life... :(

I really liked the old original iPod Nano myself. Had one for years that I was triple-booting RockBox (for extended media formats support and fancier interface), iPodLinux (for playing Doom and other toys), and the original iPod OS (just in case). Still haven't yet owned another device in that size / form factor that can do as much as that little thing did. Apple really did make some sweet devices back in the day... :)

You're (probably) not going insane. Much of humanity's leadership is going insane, and their cult-like worshippers are right there with them. You're just bein' the "odd man out" tryin' to stay sane in a crazy world ruled by crazy people with way too much money and power.

> "Some part of the story are clear failures of the system."

I think in some sense, this is a bit of a "failure of the system" if one considers that healthy foods (regardless of vegan or not) ought to be just as readily available as the ultra-cheap (ultra-processed) unhealthy stuff, and should maybe be at a similar enough price point as to not deny even the poorest in a properly civilized society at least the option to eat healthy if that's what they want, but somehow we've decided that maximizing for profit above all other things (including health) is the way to go for everything in society, including our food system. Fail.

... in the same sense as the two sides of a coin are separate sides maybe.

I recently saw a comic where the machines took over and "that guy" (you) in the comic was the one the machines allowed to live because "he was always polite". ;)

[1]: https://alienencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Genuine_People_Per...

In my experience, sorta kinda for certain uses but not entirely replacing other options. Marimo is great for when you want to build a more "app-like" notebook that does a task repeatably (it really beats Jupyter at this, even given JupyerWidgets), but for pure experimentation and playing with code, Jupyter Labs still rules the roost for me. I keep both installed for the different purposes that each excels at. This one may fill yet another need. Dunno yet until I give it some play-time.

... and is continuing to move further still ...

And to sing hymns loudly together in that enclosed space (which almost certainly helps spread a respiratory disease just that much more easily).