Hooray! It's good to see another retired dev with 40 years exp respond more eloquently than I ever can to the flood of anti-AI rage. What gets me most about the rage is the absolutism - the flat assumption that anyone who uses AI is either stupid or evil. Period. There's almost no genuine engagement on the topic, mostly just angry shouting. But you see that a lot online - some people think social media is Fight Club.
Oh FFS is that what it is? I watched that lame X-files thing scrolling for a couple minutes without realizing it had anything to do with ICE. Seemed like just more Epstein files distraction.
My friend who uses Claude daily says it saves him a hell of a lot of time doing all the routine work, which he verifies. It's not AI's fault if devs are sloppy, or if non-devs think they can type "Create software" and go get coffee. I still remember some people around 1990 who similarly misunderstood object-oriented programming - like it meant drawing a box labeled "DoAccounting" and magic would happen.
That's what "representative government" is all about. I've never tried to do this but theoretically you could write to your representative or senator and try to impress them with your idea. You'd probably get more traction by starting local with a city or town ordinance, or by creating a campaign on social media and in person - rally an impressive number of people to stand around city hall with signs requesting/demanding this kind of action, get noticed on news media, and build it into a credible movement. In many states citizens who collect enough signatures can place proposed legislation on ballots during regular elections.
Not quite - only the biggest hydro stations can generate a gigawatt or more, and their startup time is like 10 minutes.