The M24 was the first computer my family purchased. My dad worked for a bank and in the mid eighties they were modernising that bank and offered employees an option to buy a PC. Since contract went to Olivetti, we got the M24. I remember the evening we picked it up and installed it on the living room table, but I can't clearly remember what year that was, I think it was 1986. My first explorations into programming were on that thing. I must have spent countless of hours with it. An 8086, 640kb of RAM and two floppy drives. Good memories.
I am starting to believe that this might actually be the objective. There is no other logical reason for the US to act this way (not that anything under Trump is logical anyway). They already have full access to Greenland for defence purposes (or pretty much any other purpose) under NATO. It's no secret that Trump is Russian aligned and that he has a intolerance (hatred?) for Europe.
There is no mystery here. Trump clearly explained his motivation in a recent interview:
"Donald Trump Says He Wants 'Ownership' of Greenland Because It's 'Psychologically Important for Me'"
He’a a rapist and does not take no for an answer. That’s it. That’s *really* it. It’s yet another score to be settled from his first term in office. Same with his Nobel Prize fixation.
I think a lot of people are having a really hard time grappling with the fact that the leader of a superpower is a literal maniac.
If you're into this sort of stuff then I highly recommend Adrian's Digital Basement on YouTube. There is a large back catalogue of videos that go in-depth on this very topic.
What do we think the future is going to looks like?
"I need a caching component in my stack. Oh, I just let AI create it from scratch, so AI can also run it, maintain it etc."
or
"I need a caching component in my stack. Oh, let me just grab an existing, well maintained and supported cache component and let AI write the glue logic to run it, maintain it etc."
Personally I think it will be the second one. There definitely is a case for generating one off tools but I don't think AI will replace established, well written and maintained software (being it open-source or not).
Not all software is equal. I can get 80% of my new SaaS to be generated by AI as it's mostly considered boilerplate and mostly the same as any other SaaS. It's the 20% that makes it unique OR something that AI can't touch like a special relationship with a supplier or a first to market position etc.
Since Denmark and Greenland are already NATO allies, the US has pretty much full access to Greenland. The Trump admin says they need it for defence purposes, well, there already is a US base in Greenland and I'm sure the other NATO allies would happily allow the US to expand their presence for defence purposes. Re. the minerals and what's not, also here, the US has pretty much full access. However, there is no company that's interested since digging out those minerals is very difficult and not really worth the investment at this point in time. So, the "I need it" argument is really weak as they already pretty much have it for the purposes they say they want it for.
What is really happening here is part of the Monroe Doctrine [1]. Trump is trying to consolidate the Western Hemisphere. Remember Canada being the 51st state?
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