You could not pay me to use such a stupid device. No clue why people invest in or purchase such a product.

On the parking enforcement side of things: maybe you could argue that it's surveillance? It depends on what you mean by surveillance, a term that I think is easily overloaded so as to conflate different things. Depending on the definition, that's also how retailers detect and mitigate shoplifting, and it's also how the barista knows that I'm ready to place an order, and myriad other things that could potentially qualify as "surveillance".

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SQLite also has a very good reputation. I vaguely recall hearing about one SQLite vulnerability discovered via AI, but I thought it turned out to be a nothingburger. A quick search turned up CVE-2025-6965[0,1], published on 2025-07-15, which affects SQLite < 3.50.2 (versions published before 2025-05-29[2]).

I'm not much of a security nerd, but my naive reading of this implies that it was already known and fixed as of the time of the CVE; in other words, the AI discovery didn't seem particularly helpful (though one could argue that it did successfully discover a CVE).

Has AI found many/any other vulnerabilities in SQLite?

[0] https://cybersecuritynews.com/sqlite-0-day-vulnerability/

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-6965

[2] https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_50_2.html

I didn't downvote you - and I agree with the sentiment that Whole Foods is also Amazon - but the meta complaining isn't beneficial to the conversation.

[0] https://www.greyblake.com/blog/vim-preview-plugin/

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220516225844/https://www.greyb...

Maybe it's well-known, but I read the starvation response Wikipedia page[0] and didn't grok it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_response

I knew that enums were really just named integer values and nothing more, but I had forgotten than you can build a perfectly legal enum from an integer out of the bounds of the enum's range. And a switch statement is non-exhaustive. (As I said, it had been a while since I used C# extensively.) What would have been a few lines of code in Rust turned into dozens to try to exhaustively protect against invalid input.

I know C# is a mature language that has been around for decades, but how janky everything feels comparatively really shocked me. I only very briefly played with F# about a decade ago, but my guess is that I could try to pick that up and call F# from C#, getting much better ergonomics with a combination of the two.

> HSBC Global Investment Research projects that OpenAI still won’t be profitable by 2030, even though its consumer base will grow by that point to comprise some 44% of the world’s adult population (up from 10% in 2025). Beyond that, it will need at least another $207 billion of compute to keep up with its growth plans.

This article is from six months ago. Was HSBC wrong; did something dramatically change in the last six months; is OpenAI not, in fact, profitable?, or are they in fact doing well but doing a huge investment (as was the case with Amazon 25ish years ago)?

I genuinely do not know, but my impression is that they're burning investment capital trying to compete with others' investment capital and Google's bottomless pockets.

[0] https://fortune.com/2025/11/26/is-openai-profitable-forecast...

Amazon was unprofitable because they poured their revenue into growth. On paper, they were in the red, but everyone - especially investors - saw what was going to happen, given their trajectory.

Is it the case that any of these AI companies are actually making a ton of money and growing accordingly? AFAICT, we've just got [a] big players like Google that can subsidize AI in the hopes of waiting everyone else out and [b] private companies raising capital in the hopes that when the market returns to rationality, they may be solvent.

That's it? I've seen people that are consistently putting out four PRs per day. I don't/can't even code review them. So much of what we do is now just rubber-stamping PRs. We were even told that we shouldn't be writing code by hand anymore.

What is even more frustrating is that the teacher knows this and does nothing about it. Maybe one could argue that, in the end, these students fail to learn and will get their just rewards. But it seems to me that the lack of immediate corrective action (eg, an F on an assignment) is a failing of the system.

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