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Maintenance programmers are not likely to be replaced by AI in the next decade. I am given to believe that some organizations are still using IBM 7040 code emulated on ancient IBM 370s. Other organizations are emulating IBM 370 COBOL code on newer machines.
Much of this legacy code is so convoluted and patched, that only a live person can understand it and fix it. The documentation of the original functionality is often lost and, if available, usually has not been updated to reflect the bug fixes, enhancements, and other code changes.
What AI may do, however, is quickly generate new replacement code for the entire package. It will have difficulties in places where the original programmers relied upon a side effect, rather than straight-line code, to accomplish something. Many of these side effects are not well documented.
AI will excel at regression testing.
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© 2009, Rex Hammock
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No matter how advanced technology becomes, there will always be work to do. It might be different from past jobs, but the work will exist.
I'd advise the historically ignorant Gen Z employee to just learn new skills if AI technology makes her old skills obsolete (which won't necessarily happen in the 3 years she predicts because the most technology forecasts are wrong).
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Lunar Lake returns to a more conventional-looking design for Intel. To take a lake of troubles up against ARMs, and by opposing, end them
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Hamlet would be proud!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency's (CISA) Secure Software Development Attestation Form rules come into force on June 11, 2024. 80% of organizations haven't heard there are CISA rules on security
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80% of organizations doesn't even know what is security.
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It's like the inverse of a rising tide lifting all boats though. If everyone is insecure, is the real strategy just not to be one of the juiciest low hanging fruits?
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- Do you think that with that shoes are you going to be faster than the lion?
- I do not need to be faster than the lion, only faster than you.
You meant something like that, didn't you?
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Both activities offer similar rewards. Knowing that, how can developers easily learn new programming skills? Well, perl anyway
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Quote: Both activities offer similar rewards.
Lots of things have similar rewards. 
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Ensuring uniqueness is only the first of many problems with natural keys. This opinion brought to you by Big UUID
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I do prefer natural ones. Metal is better than plastic  
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There was an article that hit a different, more automated, less curated (and inferior, and never having your awesome quips) service.
It was maligning UUID in particular. It was very rightfully skewered, imo.
I have no idea which DBA taught me... But you really want to do both. Space is cheap and if we're talking RDBMS, indexing and normalization strategies are the crux of performance. Part of the reason you want "two ways" is that there are fundamentally two different concerns and having both allows you to address things using either in the appropriate context.
A typical autonumber identity PK (sequence in oracle) combined with either a natural key on the data OR a UUID (and even both!) is just the way you should be doing things. I can maybe explain/rebut particular points of antithesis but laying out all the reasons why is something that belongs in multiple chapters of a database design book.
Totally agree that if you ONLY use natural keys you're basically laying a minefield.
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A group of current and former employees at artificial intelligence (AI) companies, including Microsoft-backed, opens new tab OpenAI and Alphabet's, opens new tab Google DeepMind on Tuesday raised concerns about risks posed by the emerging technology. Yeah, but what do they know about it?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Yeah, but what do they know about it?
But do the ones that matter care about it?
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The founder and CEO of video conferencing company Zoom wants AI avatars to take your place, despite meetings being the entire point of his company. What if they called a meeting, and only the AI show up?
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Can I get an AI avatar to do the rest of my job, too?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Sorry, your avatar gets to go on vacation for all its wonderful input at those meetings. You? get back to work! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Kent Sharkey wrote: What if they called a meeting, and only the AI show up?
Seeing how many meetings go, that could even be an improvement.
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How long till you can homebrew and AI to go to meetings for you?
What if that's how AI really ends up replacing us?
It doesn't, not really, it's just we all have to manage/educate/instruct our AI 'avatars' like tamagachis or w/e.
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Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is. I'm a little shocked that it's taken this long
Hopefully they don't dump this beyond the paywall. It isn't as I post this.
Cheery quote: “The database is unencrypted. It’s all plain text,” Hagenah says.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm a little shocked that it's taken this long
That was my first thought when I saw it in the news here.
My second thought was "What is Ken going to say about it?"
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I just hope that the hackers figure out which service is responsible for taking the screenshots, so that we can disable that one.
The difficult we do right away...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: “The database is unencrypted. It’s all plain text,” Hagenah says.
MS: Using Staples' Easy button option.
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