A calculator does replace our ability to do math in a certain sense.

At the grocery store there's countless (no pun) opportunities to do math in the sense of comparing prices and calculating unit costs etc, but most people can't do that math easily in their head because the calculator has made that skill less important.

But people also don't pull out the calculator repeatedly to do this in the grocery store, so the math just doesn't get done.

"Why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box???"

I retired due to not only AI, but other reasons this industry has become something I don't like.

I'm fortunate with regards to the timing and being able to do it, but if I could have a job like the one I had ten years ago I'd still be working.

It's a bummer that the rest of us have no choice but to live in the world created by the tyranny of the docile.

What a community of temporarily embarrassed unicorns we have here.

Has a company ever had a greater fiduciary incentive not to finish and release their game?

Will $250 million and 20 wizards squeeze out an MVP in 9 months for MacBook Neo?

Use AI agentic coding amplifier.

The point is that the long-ongoing effort to weaken regulation leads to events like this as predicted, and further steps in that direction are powerfully incompetent.

We used to ridicule "works on my machine" thinking but now we're pivoting the whole field into essentially that, shipping what "sticks" like you said.

We should call this obsession "longest Covid". Certain people will be on this until they die.

Covid already started to create a situation where people get indignant if you expect them to physically show up to places. Like we're in The Naked Sun. We're probably headed towards people feeling the same sort of entitled to respond to you in the medium of least effort, that is, copy/pasting from AI.

It's been decades since I read the Asimov book. I vaguely remember the details. Luckily AI gave me a quick summary to refresh my memory.