All governed by Moore's Law, what happened then seems extremely unlikely to happen again, the curve is a sigmoid and we're much closer to the flat end now.

In the case of the well known FAANG and other similarly structured large software companies, everyone working there or having approached them know how bloated and inefficient they are.

What is happening is likely a long-term plan to completely restructure themselves, progressively shedding headcount while using it as a disciplinary tactic.

I am sure they understand the cost and the effect on morale.

But they are foreseeing radical changes and they want to be ready and slim before the storm.

Airbus is using Palantir services. The competition between Boeing and Airbus has often be brutal and dirty, and considered significant at the state level.

The fact that a company like Palantir be allowed to insert themselves in the software infrastructure of a critical company that is often working against the interest of the US seems very weird to me.

Nothing new here.

What I find surprising with the anti-AI sentiment is that it seems to be a lot more prevalent among the younger generation.

I am not sure why or if this is a new pattern.

But I don't think I ever seen any insiders comments here, even anonymously.

Complete BS in my opinion.

Yes, the standard library is bad. This is by far the worst part of the C legacy. But it is not that hard to write your own.

String functions like this are not difficult at all, and you can use better naming and semantics, write faster code etc.

C is not the C standard library, ffs.

But Tesla has been promising full self-driving "next year" for quite a long time now, and it seems they are stuck at the "95% there" stage basically forever.

Leaving OpenAI to work for Elon Musk was a poor move, and AFAIK his work on CV at Tesla did not bring anything groundbreaking, unfortunately probably the opposite (the bet on camera-only driven system did not pay off) and his talks about the approach would indicate that his whole idea to make it work was nothing more than hill-climbing.

Also, his over-reaction to the whole Claw thing was a bit ridiculous, in my opinion.

I don't see him as a Scientist in the field, but more as an efficient tinkerer.

A collective punishment, 10% of the soldiers killed by their peers, randomly choosen.

I don't really understand the rationale otherwise, hiring is hard, and they are not forced to reduce cost now.

This seems like a colossal mistake. Not the first of course.

In the beginning, they are irrelevant, but at some point, edge cases are everything you have to deal with.

I would have been happy writting z80 and 68000 assembly code for an entire career.

The bad UX is really what irks me. Enough that I may entirely opt-out of the Apple ecosystem forever, and I don't think I am the only one feeling that way.

The whole innovation was about making the jobs as simple and repetitive as possible so humans would basically work like robots.

Once you're there, having removed any agency and freedom, pushing the hours to the limits of human exhaustion is just one logical step.