Which works when you live in normal civil times, when you live in jungle times people and robots will do whatever they want and the most powerful will get their way.

The more I hear about companies shifting to focus on AI the more it makes me want to start a direct "successor"/"competitor" company that does what the original company did without shifting to AI. As a bet on the AI enshittifying the original company so much that they either cannot develop the software any more and have to start anew, or that they create so many errors and chaos that they get fined & sued into oblivion, or both.

I think you're on to something here. For a multi-product dev company, they could (if domain still available) brand as 'without.ai' or 'no.ai' or 'sans.ai' and do 'taxware.sans.ai', 'todo-mvc.sans.ai', 'basecampclone.sans.ai' etc..

Do you mean because more people are vibe coding, trusting the models' output, and putting code directly into production, so there are more security vulnerabilities created?

Or because there are more source code scanners which end up finding more vulnerabilities?

But what that because their search was so bad that it took you that long to find the sources?

No, it's usually because it finds sources that I would not have even thought to search for in the first place.

Agentic AI has its faults, but one thing I've found it to be very good at is surfacing the "unknown unknowns": things I didn't know I should have searched for but that are directly relevant to my problem.

More likely you're going to get a search engine which returns results as short 5 second AI generated video clips with an infinite scroll.

(Torment Nexus rules apply here)

As it turns out I found out some people use tiktok as a search engine. How exactly, I am not sure.

You search for a term and then you watch videos until you're satisfied. I don't think it's a very good way to learn about a topic, but millions of people seem to disagree with me. It makes more sense when you remember that 21% of the American population is functionally illiterate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

IIRC they're already in the Military Industrial Complex with companies like Palantir, Anduril, and others.

Good point. I guess I feel they're still getting into position there, and haven't really had their opportunity to blossom yet. The average western citizen's experience of war is still just slightly increased food and fuel prices.

This is why nearly all people that write code are not engineers, no "Software Engineer" would be willing to sign off on their code like this, yet this is level of safety guarantees real engineering is about.

So the solution is to wait and not use AI until people have spent all their money and actually figured out what the real use cases are. Good to know.

Is that your approach to unit tests? If so, sure.

Or you know, maybe have public transport that's available so you can easily get it to where you need to go.

Having a city's worth of automated cars driving around all the time sounds like a hellscape.

I'd feel safer with streets populated by fleets of mature autonomous vehicles than the current status quo, even (or especially) when traveling by foot and train (which I do often). Public transit is great, but cars also exist for good reasons.

The streets would be far safer with far fewer cars on the road. Having automated fleets just increases the number of cars on the roads making the streets less safe. This is due to each fleet needing enough capacity on the road at any time to handle the demand and response times expected.