This is how others feel as well and how software engineering will feel for new generations

How can you make such universal statements? This is not true at all. There are plenty of people who find vibe coding mentally exhausting (not everyone wants to be a manager) and who think LLMs suck that joy that was left in programming.

What if Elon Musk had been born in a much poorer region/family instead?

Then we would have missed out on a great man (for a precondition to being a billionaire is obviously to be a great man, better than your fellows) and the world would have been a much poorer, grimmer place.

greatness is working illegally, tax evasion, defrauding consumers, and refusing to pay child support for all of your children.

I like your comment I think this is a pragmatic way to see oneself

I don't know if consuming world news makes you ethically better. That sounds a bit much and yes you can make something better in your society by what ever ... opening a hacker space in your village... I just do not get the relation between scrolling through news and affecting fellow human beings

You may be right. I just wanted to add that there are probably people stranded in Dubai right now because they booked a Berlin–Sydney flight with a stopover six months ago. Sometimes you simply can’t predict these things.

Yes, staying informed can help in some cases. But there are also many situations where it wouldn’t have made a difference. The amount of noise you have to sift through to “stay updated” is huge. At some point, it becomes a trade-off: consume a constant stream of news to maybe avoid a rare edge case — or tune it out and accept that very occasionally you might get unlucky.

sounds unrealistic to me. For military and industrial use cases yes but I think we are at least 5 probably 10 and more years away from that moment. I think there is not enough data, and hardware is not software so the scaling will be more difficult and use cases are so wide that I can not imagine a humanoid cooking and mowing the lawn and repairing the roof. Look how long the autonomous driving takes and this is just moving a car.

I wouldn't see it positive that we just need to rethink and offer platforms. As this platforms already exist Azure, AWS, GCP

I think this guy is a marketing genius!

dang on position 4

every day waking up, reading hn and thinking "This new AI xy is insane - it will change everything" then start my daily work in low code integration and thinking "How long will this last?