Kind of a compromise for smaller countries that want to have a standing army. And some countries offer alternatives like civil service or paying additional taxes instead for those that don’t want to serve in the military.

The US having expensive higher education driving poorer people to join the military to afford it is bleaker honestly.

Michelle Obama tried tackling this and fast-food PR destroyed her with claims she was “fat shaming”.

There’s a huuuuuge lobby to fight in order to solve this and it should be tackled. But again, profits will be put before people’s health and lives.

The obesity problem in the US is so bad, the Army is facing issues finding enough recruits fit for service. There’s even a program to get people back into shape just so they can try to get into the Army.

Let’s suppose they somehow perfect LLMs to write code.

So now we can tell in plain English what our applications need to do! But English (and most human languages) are open to interpretation so our prompts need to be really detailed and unequivocal. Hum, wasn’t that the reason we made programming languages in the first place? In order to provide concise and unequivocal instructions to computers?

And as you say, LLMs don’t think, don’t have domain-specific knowledge they can apply, and don’t ask questions where things are unclear or problematic.

Crappy copy/pasta jobs for crappy applications will suffer but there will always be a place for talented programmers.

With Trump in office soon you can forget about regulation.

And in any case, it’s tech-adjacent so legislators have zero idea how any of this works.

Especially not a lot of influencers willing to bite the hand that feeds them. That’s 23k going bye bye because they’re opted to give us a honest look at this abusive model instead.

As usual, GN willing to get in there and dig things out.