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I think the reason is much more simple.

It's very hard to improve something that you don't understand yourself. All the tiny decisions you make as you create a product are informed by the experience you have.

So it's seems obvious to me that a product created by software engineers would be better at software engineering. A programmer knows what a programmer needs.

To improve another industry successfully, you would really need people from that industry to be involved in a deep level in the design of the product.


Well for AI it's more like training than product design. I have switched from software engineering to AI training for software engineering (partly because honestly it is just much easier now to get that kind of gig work versus the programming contracts I was getting before).

They have a ton of tasks that pop up on my dashboard for all sorts of industries that I know nothing about. I think they are ramping up in non-software areas.


And if you thought that was ridiculous, consider that the "best" implementation is the SQL database it wrote in PHP.


All that info is out there. The one that thrusts backwards is 200 litres at 10,000 PSI and takes up all your boot space.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/691843612950003743/15...

The one that thrusts downwards removes the front passenger seat for another 400 litre tank. I don't think there are any pictures of that though.

I personally would find it scary sitting next to a huge 10,000 PSI pressure vessel but there you go.

They will not attempt to make it legal to use on normal roads, but intend to try and certify it to be in a road legal car but only usable while not on the road.

It also takes like 6 hours to fill and can be used one time per fill for a single use. It's a party trick for sure.


yeah... I want to see the crash test videos. If someone is driving around with this in their trunk I'm staying away.


Just look at crash test footage of LPG or hydrogen powered cars.


Oh wow, do they have 200 litre tanks capable of generating 10,000 psi?


The H70 standard for hydrogen cars is 10k psi and the tanks for it are usually ~140 liters (depending on the particular model), so very comparable in that aspect. They don't generate the pressure, something has to have pumped it into the tank as seen here, and keep in mind they are hydrogen rather than air.

LPG, no - the pressures are much lower (but also still pumped in and significantly reactive).


You can’t just yolo an MMO with unreal engines server. Not unless you want your MMO to have a max of about 60 players in the world.

You need to write you own version of all that stuff and effectively just use UE as the graphics engine.


It depends on what style of mmo want. Sure a full WoW one wont work out of the box, but a sharded/Guild Wars/Destiny style one would work


People may be different, but that doesn’t mean we should accept it all the time.

I hate exercise. Like I really really really hate it.

Should I just accept this and live a life without it?

I don’t think it’s such a stretch to say that socialisation is similar.


> I hate exercise. Like I really really really hate it. > Should I just accept this and live a life without it?

That is entirely up to you. It's your personal life and your time. No one has the right to say what you should or must do with your time.

Just like socialization, it's up to you on how much you do or don't do. Pretending everyone needs to because you like to is stupid.

Socialization is exhausting, I have to do enough of that working. I am not going to on my personal time. I really don't care what other people think of it, or what justification they use to try and make it some sort of requirement, or how much finger waving they're going to do.


You might have delivered 10x more code, but did you deliver 10x more value?

Or put another way, are you making 10x more money?

It's easy to spend excess productivity effectively wasting time. Most companies did it before AI, and will continue doing it after.

It's easy to believe you are not wasting time because you have more bugs fixed or more features delivered, but if it doesn't move the bottom line, what is the point?


I mean it doesn't have to bring 10x more value, but it can be a 10x better experience for existing users. There have been so many niche bugs that were never ever fixed because there's more important things to do, but because fixing a niche bug is now 1 click away that really changes the economics quite a bit especially for small teams.

I'm personally working on a product solo that would not be possible without a team of 3-4 people that are all knowledgeable in that field and would take at least 1 year to get it started. It only took me 3 months to get a fully working solution with $1200 worth of AI subscriptions, the value multiplication is nearly x100 here.


With all due respect when you strip away the noise - unless it shows up in the financials it hasn’t done anything for the firm.

This is something many firms are struggling to grasp.


The world does not revolve around money, specifically non profits come to mind where this can be a huge boost in quality for everyone involved.


I suspect that the conditions the textile workers lived in when western countries were creating textiles is not so different in absolute terms from the condition that they live in now.

It's just that the western world moved on.

Almost all economies that have developed have started with textiles. This is the starting point on the ladder. Eventually, we will run out of poor countries that haven't had a textile industry yet, and at that point, either it will be entirely automated, or we will no longer have cheap textiles!

But I'm betting on the automation.


Textile manufacturing was dominated by Western countries until the 60s/70s btw. Berkshire Hathaway was a textile mill when Warren Buffet bought it.

Besides, if people are living in the same conditions today as the presumably Dickensian ones you were imagining, that alone suggests that the benefits of automation might not be widely distributed...


I'm really bothered by the mindset of the people against this. People act like induced demand is evil.

In reality, if more people were able to go wherever they wanted to go, that's actually a good thing regardless of if the existing people didn't get to go somewhere faster.


Most people use roads to get to work. It's definitely not where they want to go.


It’s NIMBY in another form


If you look at the actual source linked in the article it contridicts you.

"Other" in that document means custom game engines.


From the source: 'Vast majority of “other” engines are custom game engines'. They don't justify that claim. They just assert other ~= custom.


These categories add up to 100%. Where do the engines that are not "custom" (e.g. by the developer who made the game), or the major ones listed fit in?


This is not what the “exception that proves the rule” means.

If a sign says “No parking on saturdays”, that is an exception that can be used to infer the rule “parking here is okay the rest of the time”.


Both usages are common, and Wikipedia references both of them. But in the sense that it was being used, "rules can have exceptions, therefore this exception 'proves' the rule rather than falsifying it" is not valid, and is not consistent with either usage.


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