It's not the whole story. The biggest change is actually the internal rules for how downtime was reported, it wasn't actually such a large change in the actual reliability then.
Isn’t the whole point that they don’t want you to use the website - they want you to install the app. Why would they make the website an enjoyable experience?
That would require consiousness and intent on part of the AI but we can have highly autonomous agents with no consiousness and intent as well and most likely that's what we will get. It still cannot just magically get free will, intent, and the ability to "eliminate humanity".
Wouldn't need any of that. An AI agent setup to "Do the best for the world" or some other broad claim, and with enough power to say crash the stock market, disrupt power supply, delivery, etc etc after reasoning that it's all for the best.
If people start giving enough power to AI, with ill thought out goals, and no human in charge, don't be surprised...
Why would it need "free will" or "consciousness" whatever that means?
A concrete example might be putting an AI in charge of health policy, and telling it to "eliminate suffering" without any human to check and push back. Well, the best way to eliminate suffering is...
In your concerete example, how does the AI eliminate suffering? It has access to tools that let it kill people? If it has no intention and will, it means it will be provided with a charter or some rules to follow which it has to always. Why would humans put an LLM in a system that can eliminate suffering by genocide or whatever? And even if it did, if the AI is a complaint system, why will it not shut down when it has to follow its charter?
I get AI can be misaligned but that doesn't mean it gets the ability to crash the stock market lol or super powers like that. Life is not a sci fi movie
You can make them output what you would've written yourself, but that would be slower than writing it yourself, so no one does that - but it’s trivially true.
Skilled engineers may still vibe and not care. Beginners may be thorough and experiment and ask till they get the design right even if they don't spot it immediately, just caring does a lot.
Incidentally I’ve always thought that about working on cars, but more like skilled mechanics may still vibe and not care. Amateurs may be thorough but much slower, may need to do a lot of research before every step. Just caring does a lot.
I agree with you about “thoroughness” being key here, but I’d additionally advocate that we need to leave room for people to make some slop learn it.
Part of the learning process, whether you’re a “skilled” or “unskilled” engineer (or not an engineer at all, and noting that going from one to the other is just a matter of learning), is being able to “vibe and not care.” Yes, it’s also helpful to identify things that might not work out theoretically in advance, using the things we learn in our CS programs. But coding with LLMs is a brand new modality, and we are all indeed just learning to work with them.
I think alternating vibe coding with vibe-assisted DRYing/cleaning is ultimately a workflow enhancer that can make better software faster. But engineers have to be allowed to make some slop to learn it.
> Over the same period, total population growth in the UK has been approximately 20%, again close to the cross-country average in our sample. Immigration, therefore, accounts for roughly half of the UK’s population growth over the last three decades.
Population growth has nothing to do with price increases? If it does, then half of the increase being due to immigration seems quite significant.
> most credible estimates suggest that a one-percentage-point increase in the immigrant share of the population increases house prices by between 0 and 3%. Rent effects are typically slightly smaller.
> The increase in the immigrant shares since the mid-1990s (around 10 percentage points) and overall population growth are close to OECD averages.
It’s hard to believe a range including “no effect whatsoever” when you add people to a neighborhood. But assuming a more reasonable 2%, that would mean 20% higher prices attributed to immigration alone. Where did you get at most 10%??
> Population growth has nothing to do with price increases?
People don't make prices increase, people times money makes prices increase. They're not entirely without money of course, but I don't think it's boat people outbidding you for the homes you want.
It’s almost free money! Migrants may not have money (refugees to be clearer, the UK receives a lot of migrants who come as highly skilled workers and those do have money) but they don’t need to pay for the rent, the Government does it for them in case you didn’t know. If you have a few houses to rent it’s really easy money.
Not sure why the need for immediate attack, another thing that happened literally everywhere is - there are way more people in big towns, which have extremely limited and sort of static supply even while continuously growing on outskirts.
Guess what - almost all folks complaining (also here seen on many occasions) want short commute to their well paid work, nobody ain't commute for 2h every day. Those few places are even more limited. Guess where most immigrants go to and stay there - its not your backwardish xenophobic bucolic little villages in the middle of nowhere with old empty houses breaking down. You won't hear folks living there complaining old properties nobody wants are too expensive.
I can go on and on and on, making stats like that beyond useless. We all see actual effects. All is connected and continuously influencing other parts of whole, including immigration and other stuff. Current situation on any market is the living proof of that.
You're citing a government report to support their position on why we need infinity immigration? Seriously?
The UK population grew from about 58.9 million in 2000 to 69 million in 2025 - an increase of roughly 10 million people. The large majority of that came from immigration.
And you don't think having to house an extra 10 million people is a reason for the housing crisis?
I would suggest you do your own research, and use your own logic and reason rather than blindly accepting government reports into why what they're doing is brilliant.
The problem with right wing populist parties isn't just that they don't adhere to some "woke" abstract moral concepts, but they are just terrible at governing. They are not serious in understanding the causes of any problem.
That, and the green belts suffocating the cities where people can have jobs, and the passive money accumulated in funds seeking reliable place to park. Some others too, anyhow, better not to pick a single one.
UK needs foreigners just to maintain population. It needs population growth to keep house prices rising. It needs rising house prices to prop up it's economy because it has no industry or export. It has no industry or export because it existed by invading and stealing from other countries as an empire, which is finished now
Maybe you want to byte align some data, or pack to a certain size but keep compat. I think they're going to be rare cases, but I can see it being used.
Thanks, I actually concentrated on improving code quality, the patterns I flagged are poor design choices that humans wouldn’t write. Examples are duplicated functions doing same thing, dead or redundant codes etc. These builds up and degrade the codebase over time.
I'm interpreting this not as a "catch ai submissions gotcha" tool, but as a "last pass in review catch mistakes AI made that i may have missed" tool. Having more linters is a good thing IMO (I say this as someone who doesn't use AI to generate code, but works with people who do and has to review a lot of AI generated code)
Seems pretty conclusive. Very similar story when they bought skype.