Worked for a much lesser international company and it was exactly the same minus the politeness. I had to find a quiet corner to get some work done.

<cynic>Yeah React is already so last year.</cynic>

Only read the transcript but I'm not getting most of it. I mean it starts with a bunch of aphorisms we all agree with but when it should be getting more concrete it goes on with statements that are kind of vague.

E.g. what exactly does it mean to: >> Don’t use an object to handle information. That’s not what objects were meant for. We need to create generic constructs that manipulate information. You build them once and reuse them. Objects raise complexity in that area.

What kind of generic constructs?

How do I know whether this thing isn't already here "commending" in this very thread?

I wouldn't be so sure. Programmers (and drivers and cashiers) can "survive" in poverty like millions others already do. This transformation is coming in waves that keep the proverbial frog in the pan.

Does it need to solve original problems? Most of the code we write is dealing with the same problems in a slightly different context each time.

As others say in commends it might be the case where we meet in the middle. Us writing some form of tests for AI-produced code to pass.

>> There’ll be several new career paths made possible by this technology as greater worker productivity makes possible greater specialization.

Can you list a few?

The same Ginni who walked away with a huge bonus?

I think this is the new normal. Either open/close as soon as a more dangerous variant comes along (can happen with most of the Earth population unvaccinated). Or just let it be and get used to health system being on its knees on peak seasons and more vulnerable/unvaccinated dying of.

Also accept the reality that hospitals being at capacity is the normal and not a anomaly. Just part of our hyper-optimized JIT economy. Near 100% utilization rate has been reality at flu-seasons for long time. And economically it is just not realistic in general to keep excess capacity.

Yeah according to news headlines health care have been overwhelmed for as long as I can remember. Population increases as well. Obviously the solution is to increase capacity, not to ban dancing, lol

It's much easier to introduce restrictions than train medical staff in a week.

Also capacity has been increasing year on year for the past 100 years in the EU, USA and the UK . Faster than population actually.

Also there is cyclical and situational capacity management. For e.g.: flu waves, new year and now covid waves.

I only know about those regions

If it where sterile then we wouldn't test it in medical tests.

Whether or not it's sterile seems to me a completely independent variable from whether or not it's useful to test. Seeing as how it's not completely water, but rather water with various things dissolved in it, the relative levels of those dissolved compounds would something that could be worth knowing.