- The problem dimension is hard to visualize for most people. Similar to space distances are hard to understand.

- There's nothing an individual can do about it other than trusting their local institutions and voting. Recycling, being a rational consumer, choosing greener options have negligible impact and it's main benefit is making people feel good.

- The consequences are slow to materialize. Sure, it's a bit hotter or more rainy in some places. It'll take a few more of these for population as a whole to feel inclined to become more involved in the matter. Which might be too late.

Either way, not much to do about it.

The majority of the content on the internet is supported by ads with the expectation that you, a human that has money, will consume something and spend money on them.

If people are replaced by some synthetic representation of themselves, what is the incentive to sell advertisements on the internet if there are no humans?

Fake/artificial traffic is a big problem today, it will be harder and harder to detect but its presence will be more and more obvious.

I'm skeptical the extent to which people publishing articles like this use AI to build non-trivial software, and by non-trivial I mean _imperfect_ codebases that have existed for a few years, battle tested, with scars from hotfixes to deal with fires and compromises to handle weird edge cases/workarounds and especially a codebase where many developers have contributed to it over time.

Just this morning I was using Gemini 3 Pro working on some trivial feature, I asked it about how to go about solving an issue and it completely hallucinated a solution suggesting to use a non-existing function that was supposedly exposed by a library. This situation has been the norm in my experience for years now and, while this has improved over time, it's still very, very common occurrence. If it can't get these use cases down to an acceptable successful degree, I just don't see how much I can trust it to take the reins and do it all with an agentic approach.

And this is just a pure usability perspective. If we consider the economics aspect, none of the AI services are profitable, they are all heavily subsidized by investor cash. Is it sustainable long term? Today it seems as if there is an infinite amount of cash but my bet is that this will give in before the cost of building software drops by 90%.

I likely did something wrong but according to my hastily put calculations, Stripe has to improve favorable dispute result chance by 40% for this option to begin making sense. Or it could be lower but the value proposition of producing the evidence to dispute must cover for the gap.

It cost around 10 pesos (50 cents) to fill a 19 liter (5 gallon) jug. That’s cheaper than a single 12oz can of coca cola

I wonder how he felt after writing those words. I wonder if that beautiful ability to write what he feels so that many can feel a tiny glimpse of what he felt, helps to keep moving forward, even if a little bit.

I never understood where it came from but it probably came from some English label translation perhaps? Where the distinction and labeling where the disambiguation of the word "Lead" made more sense and the label was simply translated at face value on a Spanish speaking market.