Of course if your answer is “people should just stop using cookies” then I have bad news for you.

Explain how you'd do that without a banner or similarly annoying UX

But why? This is EU Cookies Banner level of state interference making UX worse for everyone just because some lawmaker doesn't like something.

At the VERY least, the road blockers should be fined the cost they caused to society.

Block Golden gate bridge for 1h30min for 10,000 people (Avg salary $50/h)? That will be 1.5 * 10,000 * 50 = $750,000 damage.

Skydio is the leading U.S. drone company and world leader in autonomous flight. Our drones are used for inspecting the energy grid, de-escalating life and death scenarios in public safety, inspecting bridges, giving soldiers better situational awareness on the battlefield, search and rescue missions, and more. We serve the core industries that our civilization runs on and have life-saving impact.

If you’re interested in being a core member of a 250+ person world-class engineering and research team that is defining the future of a major emerging industry,

We’re looking for a diverse combination of engineers, researchers, and managers with strong SW skills and experience across complex products. We’re particularly interested in people with robotics, web, deep learning, game dev, streaming or cloud experience.

I am a Senior Director of Engineering there and a YC S18 alumni, we're looking at all applications from the careers page. https://www.skydio.com/careers#job-listing

No one cares, there are millions of users, no one is going to look at your data, and even less be able to actually know which person a given user is.

We legit just want to know aggregated and objective information about how people use our products so we can make it better for you.

"Why do all corporate try to spy on our usage patterns?" Because the ones who don't have a crap product and all died long ago.

In a sane engineering culture, actual customer-visible impact is what is measured, and AI is just a tool to improve that metric, but to improve it massively.

True but my point is that people vastly underestimate what is one-shottable.

In my experience, 80% of the times an average "non-believer" SW engineer with 7 years experience says something is not one-shottable, I, with my 15 years of experience, think it is fact one-shottable. And 20% of the time, I do verify that by one-shotting it on my free time.

1. I am also on the receiving end of this. My boss often codes and vibecodes, and no one feels like they have to merge their stuff. We only merge it if it meets the high quality standard we have. And there is no drama for blocking a PR in our culture. 2. I am fairly deep in the trenches myself and I know when my PRs are high quality and when they are not. And that does not correlate with use of AI in my experience.

A lot of what non-believers say matches "enthusiasm on the ground is lacking as results rarely live up to the extremely rosy promises". They would then say they need 2 weeks to work on a specific project, the good old way, maybe with some light AI use along the way.

But then I'm like "hmm actually let me try this real quick" and I prompt Claude for 3 minutes, and 30 minutes later it has one-shotted the whole "two weeks project". It then gets reviewed and merged by the "non-believers". This happens repeatedly.

So overall, I think the lack of enthusiasm is largely a skill issue. Not having the skill is fine, but not being willing to learn the skill is the real issue.

I see things changing, as "non-believers" eventually start to realize that they need to evolve or be toast. But it's slower than I imagined.

Skydio is the leading U.S. drone company and world leader in autonomous flight. Our drones are used for inspecting the energy grid, de-escalating life and death scenarios in public safety, inspecting bridges, giving soldiers better situational awareness on the battlefield, search and rescue missions, and more. We serve the core industries that our civilization runs on and have life-saving impact.

If you’re interested in being a core member of a 200+ person world-class engineering and research team that is defining the future of a major emerging industry,

We’re looking for a diverse combination of engineers, researchers, and managers with strong SW skills and experience across complex products. We’re particularly interested in people with robotics, web, deep learning, game dev, streaming or cloud experience.

Autonomy Engineer, Fixed Wing Planning & Controls https://www.skydio.com/jobs/20754382-05e7-4cb6-a0f9-0daf9338...

Autonomy Engineer, Deep Learning Model Acceleration https://www.skydio.com/jobs/cd6d8410-419b-4713-8d4d-7eb72b13...

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack https://www.skydio.com/jobs/5655fbe3-66b0-4951-afdc-3b67f71e...

I am a Senior Director of Engineering there and a YC S18 alumni, you can reach me at { vincent dot lecrubier at skydio dot com } but please apply online first!