It's bad because it takes someone's job? However, that job was mundane petty work that seniors didn't want to bother with. Were cars terrible for taking all of those stableboy jobs? Is Excel or data engineering terrible for the obliteration of data entry and low level bookkeeping jobs? Or is it not just a slippery slope argument, when what's happening is IMO evolution of tech? IMO People will adapt. While it's up to any event organizers to decide their rules, AI witch-hunts are a Luddite response. AI/LLM can be major tools in the belt of indies to dethrone AAA. I'd like to be clear that I'm arguing in favor of tooling such as the example of placeholder usage and a pipeline to remove it. I wouldn't defend a scumbag leveraging AI to ripoff another game, artist, or dev. It just seems like the lines are being blurred to justify AI witchhunts.
The game industry, especially AAA, is actually having major identity crisis right now as technology evolves and jobs adapt around the new tool of AI/LLMs. The game awards (not indie) should demonstrate this dolphin committee you fear already exists because the limiting factor in all industries are major resources: time, capital, experience. AI/LLMs will enable far more high skill work to be accomplished with less experience, time, and possibly capital (sidestepping ethics/practicality of data centers).
Pay a bunch of money to Disney+ to watch any popular release and get terrible streaming quality and functionality. It makes complete sense to me why consumers would toss their hands up and find better and more accessible options.
I believe the issue is Visa PayPal, and Mastercard are capitualating to interest groups bombarding them with complaints and then celebrating censorship on social media posts. I agree with your sentiment, it's ridiculous.
Unfortunately, I strongly believe these posts often get scraped by social media aggregators or sentiment analysis platforms. So, when public sentiment appears to have "dropped by X%" because we all chilled out, it becomes a justification for decisions by non-technical program or product leaders even though users actually disliked what was being done. I see the only way forward through continued expression, so I'm assuming our happy compromise would be to have constructive negative feedback and try to hold our peer commenters accountable to quality over "upboat" mentality.
Waymo rides in PHX area were a pleasent surprise. While on our trip, the waymo slammed it's brakes as a precarious event transpired that I'm almost positive if a human was at the wheel, would have resulted in an accident. Very optimistic to see how many lives they can save over the next decade.
Anecdote, but I have to agree with your call-out the author's paragraph about this is detached from the reality I've experienced. I have hired ~45 data roles: ds, de, and analysts. Not once has a PhD been able to outshine any other, less educated, peers. If anything, those that spent excess time in academia enter the roles with a handicap against them, not in favor, for performance. I will admit I've only hired about 3 with PhDs, but each had major soft skill deficiencies. The analogy is honestly quite offensive with hubris and I would encourage the author to not look down on others.It's my opinion you can only make this evaluation on merit of demonstrated skills and academia is an accomplished program. It's supposed to detail skills or assumed expertise, but that's more than ever with the current state of academia : still very assumptive.
>If you can cut off or pull off the parts that are bad, but the rest is good
Isn't this untrue for spores and mold? I'm not making the claim, I'm genuinely unsure and remember stern warnings that unseen spores and mold are a threat with moldy bread and fruits.
Yeah sorry should have been clear that I was thinking about a case where like one or two blueberries in the corner of the package have just started to mold, or where it's a non-mold problem (like maybe an apple bruise has made 1/3 of it mushy, I'll probably still eat the other half). Generally stuff that has a nontrivial amount of mold I'm not trying to save.
Mushy apples are fine. I wouldn't buy them like that. But picking up the half mushy apples that fell from the tree is how we got all our apple sauce made when I was a kid. Dirt cheap. Come to think of it. My mom still does this.
Another poster below mentioned Brother. I second this, I've owned cannon most of my life, but my best friend's parents hp. As the "Rev come fix our x guy", hp troubleshooting has 9 out of 10 times come down to crappy software and post purchase monetization. Both hp and Canon companies have gone the route of requiring nasty software to leverage basic functionality. Canon is way less egregious, but the point I'm getting to is support the company doing things you feel best. Brother printers have become the only choice in my household.
The game industry, especially AAA, is actually having major identity crisis right now as technology evolves and jobs adapt around the new tool of AI/LLMs. The game awards (not indie) should demonstrate this dolphin committee you fear already exists because the limiting factor in all industries are major resources: time, capital, experience. AI/LLMs will enable far more high skill work to be accomplished with less experience, time, and possibly capital (sidestepping ethics/practicality of data centers).