It does. The article clearly says that if you have a paid support contract they will be on-call as per usual.

Never mind cooldowns for dependencies, we need cooldowns for these adhd vibe projects.

But let's be clear about this - 50% of the voting population of the United States have been giving him their support for a decade now.

His conviction for sexual assault, attracted the votes of 43 million female voters. Just the facts...

First principles?

That would be nice, but the emergent properties of LLMs defy any kind of first-principles reasoning if you ask me.

I love this. Thank you for making it.

This. It doesn't really look like Tesla is doing anything rn but selling old cars. They don't appear to be the future any more.

It doesn't look like they are developing self-driving?

What other company is developing self-driving at a level of sophistication as Tesla that you can actually buy in a consumer vehicle?

The companies that have real boards would never take the risk.

Once Elon’s air cover is blown, the government is going the dissect Tesla. Once someone gets the injunction to stop deletion of crash data and allow for inspection, they are cooked.

I don't think self-driving is remotely close to working at any scale. I also don't think it's the killer-app. Right now, cheap electrics and moreso cheap hybrids are the killer.

I don’t know if you’ve tried Tesla FSD, but I use it almost every day. It is not perfect, but it is amazing.

Waymo, of course, is everywhere here in the Bay Area. The tech works at scale today.

it works in the west. In specific areas and under specific conditions.

Driving data is cultural data.

This is one of the many blind spots from commenters, when they think about their own experience and generalize it to the larger global market.

It works "at scale" if you have no idea what "at scale" actually means and have never left the Bay Area or NYC. Or if you like, don't believe weather exists.

I ride in my friends Model Y Performance with HW 4.5 from time to time and it always gets us from point A to point B without any interventions that I have seen yet and this is in Wisconsin, and yes it was working well with some snow and ice conditions this past winter. It seems really impressive to me at least.

Okay, but do you admit it (self-driving, either Tesla or Waymo) works in the Bay Area? Because the OP said self-driving is not remotely working "at any scale".

I suppose, if you live in a jurisdiction/insurance regime where it's usable.

But people like buying new cars, new models, new designs. Not just features - those are just options.

The reality is huge swathes of the middle of large organisations are paid to take the blame for the layer above them. AI wont solve that.

Betteridge's law at play. If they genuinely had a story, there'd be no question mark at the end of the headline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Good work everyone. We gave our labour freely and see how we all profited!

> I'm in the "haven't written any code in a while" boat ATM

How long do you think it will be before you can't write any code because you're out of practice?

One of the dangers of engineering management is that it can turn you into a person that can no longer do the thing.

Does that even matter?

How long will it be until you can't spin the thread and fabricate your clothes stitch by stitch because you're out of practice?

Precisely my point.

That's fair. In all honesty I'm already feeling challenged but given how much time I save I can set aside some time to keep myself sharp. I can learn more languages. Additionally, as pointed out by others, I'm trading coding effort for design and and strategy, which generally control business outcomes a lot more.

Having said that, I won't use AI for production system if I don't understand the programming constructs in enough detail.

How many more languages have you learnt, and how much time have you spent keeping yourself sharp? 99% of your work time, right?

> In all honesty I'm already feeling challenged but given how much time I save

And how much is that?

Easily 99 percent on most tasks. As an example, for a Python project with a dozen modules and ~50 files,a simple instruction like "Design a config file backed by Pydantic to store the project's settings. Keep the models modular" sets up nested Pydantic models, moves the settings to sensibly named JSON fields and updates the code to use Pydantic classes everywhere. Takes a few minutes maybe. Manually done the same task would take me half a few hours in the best case and a day in the worst case.

AI: I would urge you to reconsider, this is a multi week project.

Me: Do it anyway

10 minutes later

AI: Perfect!

The ability to read code doesn’t decay at nearly the same rate. Neither does your experience.

I read plenty of books, but I'd struggle to write one because that's a different skill that I don't have.

I’m not entirely convinced that’s true. Is there evidence that someone well-read would also be a bad writer?

I review every diff the clanker makes.

After a few hours of this I still look at the codebase and think "wtf is this?".

I think writing the code is a very important part of understanding it. LLM driven development is like doing maintenance programming from day one.

I've used that as well, it's like starting with a legacy app every time.