As a fellow European I'm quite happy that these driverless POS's are not here. I can't even understand how int the hell are they legal over there.

The use case: you are a talent-less idiot who wants to call yourself a musician whit these generated shit.

In Hungary by law every seller that has a cash register also has to accept cards. So I guess you were here some years ago.

And those same providers are burning how much money each day with this shit?

And carbon. Not just money. There's more externalities to it than just burning money.

Because they want to control as much of the market as possible, everyone and their dog is using LLMs for work and mails and groceries.

That doesn't change their usefulness, if tomorrow they all increase the price x10 it will remain useful for many use cases. Not to mention than in a year or two the costs might go down an order of magnitude for the same accuracy.

In an older blog post he said that he will block some browser agents because AI scrappers are using them to identify themselves.

I guess compared to a "high end" pen its crap, but its like saying that the Citroen 2cv is crap compared to a semi truck if we talk about cargo capacity.

For now...

Not everyone wants to code for hobby, so if their work not uses git then they too will not use it.

Not everyone _can_ code as a hobby. Some of us are old and have families and other commitments

That's when you can only hope that your workplace is one that trains - so the investment isn't one sided.

Agreed. In my professional career, the vast majority of devs I've worked with never wrote a single line of code outside of the office.

Trump isn't smart, he is an idiot, but an useful tool to others so they made sure he gets elected a second time.

Yep, people behind Trump are the ones we should pay attention to. They are the ones with long term plans.

A casino? Didn't he bankrupt like 3 casinos?

It was four.

Look at Atlantic City. Trump (among others) did that to that city. That is what the US will become. It is heart breaking.