I'd like to say yes, but it's not likely. What will probably happen is that software development will change. New high-level development paradigms will appear where AI and humans will be able to develop software that's closer to putting together a puzzle than writing code line by line. Keep in mind, it's only been a few years since the current crop of AIs appeared. There's much more innovation coming.

All that 100x code will be thrown out rather than debugged. What's more likely to come is the age of disposable code.

I agree. It's hard to foresee exactly where this settles, if it settles.

My sentiment is more of a hope than a prediction. The way I see this is - even if AI gets stronger from here, assuming business continue to exist - what will they compete on exactly if all businesses have access to the same level of intelligence? It would again boil down to who is able to harness the power of AI better and that again would require understanding and controlling system complexity i.e. "desloping".

What I observe is that what people don’t seem to grasp is that Zitron isn’t an AI sage. He’s simply someone who figured out that he can get a lot of attention by taking a contrarian stance when it comes to AI.

He can be 100% wrong about AI, but people will still read or listen to his next prediction. At this point, it’s mostly entertainment rather than a source of solid predictions.

He has one primary objective and that's to keep Ed Zitron in people’s minds by any means necessary.

It happens in sports, politics and, with Ed Zitron, AI.

No, don't ditch the water bottle.

"That leaves roughly two liters of fluids daily for women and three for men, says Kavouras. That translates to about 68 ounces and 101 ounces from beverages. "

Even the article points out what research points to for the amount of fluids we need.

I bet most people don't drink what they need on a daily basis.

Also, there are people like me that like the "taste" of water. I wasn't always a fan but once I started I acquired a liking for it.

Your body has an excellent mechanism for keeping you hydrated, which is thirst. If you drink water (not soda, coffee, tea, or anything else) when you’re thirsty, you’ll be fine.

Most people don’t drink 68-101 oz of liquid a day, but you also get a surprising amount of water from food. Cooked chicken breast is 65% water, for example. Fruit and many vegetables are even more.

Eating water is also better for overall hydration. Drinking more than you need just results in peeing it out and possibly unbalancing electrolytes.

MLMs have to be up there with the biggest scams, ever. My mother was scammed over and over under the guise of friendship. As a kid I remember there was very little money but there was always enough to buy another order of whatever. The ugliest part is that once you become a member you fall into the trap, you become part of the scam and become a scammer too. It's ultimately very sad once you learn it's a legal pyramid that eventually collapses and you're left holding the bag. And your "friends" led you to it.

Since we run a deficit and aren't paying any of it, in less than 14 yrs the debt will double just because of interest accumulated. I think I'm being generous. It will probably take way less time. This can't continue.

That's a hair over 5% interest. As long as the US is also printing enough money to keep inflation at that level, it's not costing anything.

That alone can't cause an economic collapse, but sure can make one much worse.

The costs are still there, with the printer you just change who foots the bill.

With inflation everyone pays including the kids with lemonaid stands simply because the things we all buy get more expensive. I much rather have a fair tax system where those who have more pay a bit more. But that's not how people think so I think we'll see inflation contine plus whatever issues come with that.

My guess is that we'll eventually elect a populist liberal government similar to what happened after the great depression and FDR was elected. Simply because the lower and middle class will be so stressed trying to keep up with inflation that they/we will want a fix where the harder edges of capitalism are soften by government. It going to be interesting

401k's and company's being able to buy their own stock has been a game changer for the stock market. You can't compare the pre 1980 data to today's stock market. As long as money flows into the stock market via 401k's and companies buying their own stock the s&p 500 will continue to flow upwards. There will be panic selling but the market will recover since index funds have to use what money investor's give them no matter which way the market is going. There will be a time when that won't be the case since more people will start to retire and will start to sell but for now the flow is up- in my opinion.

Networking, some people hate it but it makes careers so learn to do it.

I didn't see it until after the fact but preventing burn out. I was tech 100% and loved every bit. Eventually I burned out and it severely impacted my ability to stay up to date with new tech.

I have to point out that anyone that would have taken over a multibillion dollar company and trashed it, would be in the poor house looking at his best days in the back mirror plus they would have to deal with a truckload of lawsuits. Yet, he's still thriving. It seems that all of his business could do better if he was not leading them but they are all in positive light with their investors. Also, I'm pretty sure that Tesla and SpaceX would have died a long time ago but they are alive and kicking. Why is that?

Theranos was "thriving" until it wasn't. If by thriving you mean not in a cash crisis right today, then OK, there's only a handful of unpaid suppliers and contractors that I've heard of so far. Let's see if Elon ransoms the cybertruck tooling.

Twitter's acquisition seems to me like an attempt to acquire the most efficient propaganda tool on the planet.

This brings up the question of why some experts in their field become public icons while other fade away. I believe it comes down to relentless self promotion. Some people have that ability while at the same time not overdoing it. Albert Einstein was brilliant. But he became a public icon because of his ability to promot himself. He was able to make the most out of the publicity he received. Which made him so famous that decades after he died we all know who he was. Many of us don't really know why, other than he was smart, but we know him. There have been many really smart people but we don't know them as much as Einstein. Where ever you look you will see examples like him.