You must be a bot. Only a bot could deliver those contradictions in one message.

Are you expecting parents ro tag along when their kid geso over to a friends house as a low tech solution?

And you highlighted that chat didn’t have any controls… but now imagine a parent who doesn’t even know what steam is. They likely also don’t know it even has a chat feature.

Then let’s add that many middle schoolers and up are handed a chromebook at school that they get to take home. And it’s protections are pretty weak. But the kid needs it to do homework. So you are saying that parents should be sitting with them every second they are on any device. Sorry son, you can’t do your homework right now because I have to make dinner. That’s unreasonable.

I don’t understand why some of you want to give corporations a pass, and put all the blame on the parents.

Um, me. No internet until I got to college. And even then, I was one of the early ones to get into it. It technically existed before that, but it wasn’t much of a thing. If we got stuck on a game on our Commodore 64s we had to buy a magazine or order a hint book. I have two kids who I still need to manage parental controls for. And most of the people I grew up with still have kids at home. Same for the ones I went to college with. And I’m not even 50 yet.

Most parents have a list a mile long of things they have to learn to raise their kids. There is only so much effort to go around. Most of the ones I know have tried to manage these things, but not only are there so many different sets of controls, but they are always changing. And of course what if the kid is at a friends house. Do you expect mom and dad to tag along so they can supervise? And when does the kid learn to be independent. You can’t win as a parent. You are either accused of helicopter parenting or not putting in enough effort. And really, these companies have teams of specialist trying to make their product as addictive and enticing to kids as possible. You expect parents to be able to fight that on hundreds of fronts a day. Kids will find a way no matter what parents do.

Oh I get it, you somehow know what everyone can do. And you get to say who should and shouldn’t have kids. Wait, are you God? No. Okay then, get off your soapbox and live in the real world. Can’t believe you think knowing what DNS is should be a requirement for having kids.

Debit cards make sense. Though I would expect those to be usable as CCs for the verification part.

Id checks don’t do anything. They are a joke to fake. I was just responding to all the people who think it’s so easy to “just supervise” your kids. They probably don’t have kids.

Yeah. No. Not everyone has the ability to be tech savvy.
On top of that, the controls are very weak. I’m very tech savvy, and there are things I can’t stop my kids from doing on their devices. Mainly because the device maker isn’t incentivized to make it possible for the control software to stop those things. It always sounds good on paper, but when you try to actually use it, you find out how bad it really is. Plus, each game has it’s own set of controls, and then each device…

You do realize plenty of them were born and raised without the internet, right? There is a big difference between people raised with the internet and those not. Plus, parental controls are not even an after thought for must companies. They are a “we need something to claim we have parental controls”. Most of them just plain suck. Then you have different controls for different games, and different devices… even the tech savvy struggle. Plus the controls often have easy workarounds.

Okay so… all the people who are saying “supervise your kid”. Keep in mind that a lot of parents aren’t tech savvy. So often they don’t know the difference from a basic single player no online game and something where you interact with strangers. And the parental controls on every system are different. So it ends up being an all or nothing choice for these parents.

Add to that, kids these days socialize online a lot. My teen plays lots of teamwork games with her irl friends. And that is great for the development of social skills.

I happen to work from home, and in tech, so I am usually in the same room on a computer. Easy supervision. But other parents don’t have it so easy.

Total tangent here… austrailians don’t have credit cards? Tell me more, I am very curious.

When you say “the big argument”… you are mainly talking about the CEOs. They are just auxiliary marketing personnel these days.

AI is changing the world, and will continue. But the ways it does that are drastically different than those CEOs say. I don’t need it to think or innovate. I need it to follow the instructions left for it in the repo and just do the things I ask it to. It’s getting decent at that. And it really does save me time. Soo much time in tech work is wasted having to go ask 6 people how a thing is done. And everyone comllains that noone write documentation. So now here comes AI. It can write the documentation and follow it. That is a big change. Myself… I used it to fix two bugs in some project that my work was dependent on. I wouldn’t have even tried that without AI because I don’t know the language, I don’t know the many ways the project is used, none of that. I would have been stuck waiting for the team that owns it to fix it. Which surely would have meant escalating to management and all that BS. But AI helped me make the changes and lowered the burden for the owning team so they could actually release the fix. I got unblocked with 10x less effort. That’s a big deal. Just don’t ask it to think. There is plenty of dumb work to go around.

Sounds like it learned from humans alright.

What we really need is an open source platform that host tools as plugins that do as many of the privacy and tracking blocking for us. Cause as one person pointed out, those of us who do it are just a drop in the bucket. It needs to be so simple my mom can do it. And then it needs to be popular to do it. But since there is no money in it, it won’t happen. Thats just the human way.

You do have to keep some tests for yourself, and don’t let claude touch those (or even see them ideally).
Though I have been reading that you can actually have a second agent manage tests. That way it’s motivation is to find bugs. So if anything it will hallucinate failures.
That said… if corp is pushing AI, then they get the result. Most of the time it will be fine. When it isn’t it’s the AI we have been encoraged to use’s fault.

I love the idea of two AIs working against each other. One with the instruction to attempt to deny the claim, the other instructed to get the claim approved. In the end it is just a battle of who will pay more money to keep trying. And then, we can setup rogue bots they file random claims with some cheap opensource model just to burn the insurance companies tokens.

If they can perfect the saftey switch they talk about in the article. Then maybe stem cells for the brain will be like vitamins. Cause damage to like the blood brain barrier is hard to detect, but seems to be present in a decent number of “syndromes”. Like autism for one. It would be nice if they understood the why and how’s, but that could be decades away.

One… use --dangerously… they asked for speed, thats how you get it. Two… if you have great tests, you don’t really need to know every detail of the code. The risk just shifts from a dev designing bad code, to a dev designing bad tests.