I highly doubt the best solution to this sort of problem is one size fits all.

Based on any evidence or just going with your gut on this one?

"The entire economy" here being a pseudonym for marketing and advertising?

Casually waiting for a legislative body to muster the courage of their convictions and just ban social media outright.

Dude reinvented Power Wheels from first principles and you're over there claiming a death trap? Questionable premise is questionable. Anyway keeping kids perfectly safe is how you raise high anxiety incompetents. Learning to assess and manage simple risks is a fundamental part of childhood development.

We are profoundly fucked.

We always are. And yet, number go up.

Tell that to Adolf Merckle.

Making it slightly more involved for randos to show up at your literal doorstep hardly seems like hiding from one's constituency.

I mean I could hire someone to continuously dig and refill the a hole in the ground. That would certainly be them doing a thing, but it would also definitely be fake work. There's been plenty of rhetoric thrown around but no real evidence has been produced that suggests the TSA isn't engaging in a bit of circular digging at the taxpayer's expense with this.

Ah, digging holes and refilling them - that'd be literally the NREGA program in India

Uh, no. The main reason the software sector grew in the 90s was a particularly potent combination of FOMO, kickbacks, and strategically deployed cocaine.

Do you forget how much different offices looked back in the 90s?

No, no I don't. I also remember what tech sales looked like in the 90s and aughts. Jokes about strippers and blow were a cliche for a reason.

Yeah, because they were in popular TV shows and movies.

And why was that, exactly?

I also have pretty hefty skepticism that AI is going to magically account for the kinds of weird-ass edge cases that one encounters during a large data migration.

I was interviewing with a company that has done ETL migration, interop and management tools for the healthcare space, and is just dipping their toes in the "Could AI do this for us or help us?"

Their initial answer/efforts seem to be a qualified but very qualified "Possibly" (hah).

They talked of pattern matching and recognition being a very strong point, but yeah, the edge cases tripping things up, whether corrupt data or something very obscure.

Somewhat like the study of MRIs and CTs of people who had no cancer diagnosis but would later go on to develop cancer (i.e. they were sick enough that imaging and testing was being ordered but there were no/insufficient markers for a radiologist/oncologist to make the diagnosis, but in short order they did develop those markers). AI was very good at analyzing the data set and with high accuracy saying "this person likely went on to have cancer", but couldn't tell you why or what it found.

It's not that AI is magically going to do it, it's that the human running the migration now has better tools to generate code that does account for those one-off edge cases.

Just like coding the AI can reach out to a human for clarification on what to do.

yeah but it doesn't :)

How much time have you spent around developers?

I got my first tech job in 1998. Some of the most sarcastic people I’ve ever met.