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Based on the tone of their reveal, I'm not having high hopes for towing. Which would be a shame as I was hoping for a 4,000 pound towing capacity. Clearly targeted at city drivers that aren't doing a lot of real truck stuff.

Their emphasis on surfboard in the bed tells me they will at least do midgate for more workable bed... At least in fair weather conditions. That might make it ok at hauling wood from the store for projects.

On the carfront, would love for something like a miata, even with a short range.

Well they have been stuffing their covers to obscure the shape, so dont know for sure. Given their bragging about aero, it likely is not as bad as it looks.

One thing I will say is I wager they will have a midgate option, which could promote the bed to vaguely serious compared to a Maverick, in some situations. They have a few times mentioned surfboard in the bed, and double downed in their sort of reveal trailer, where they clearly show it laying down with tailgate up.

May be a decent compromise in a truck market obsessed with crew cabs.

So they directly announced a few features, but nothing people couldn't have guessed based on what had basically already been said, They did confirm that it was about the same size as a maverick. Most notably they still aren't saying bed size.

Their flipbook additionally shows a hairdryer plugged into the bed, so a fairly decent wattage out of an outlet back there.

They also show and highlighted surf board in the bed. In a maverick footprint with crew cab this is pretty much absolutely impossible without a midgate, so seems like there will be a midgate option. Midgate would go a long way to making it a more practical truck.

I've had what was described above, like once every 3 to 5 years. Terrible pain lying on the floor in the middle of the night hoping for relief with each attempt. Then a generally miserable day and then all good for the next few years.

By the time I'm at the doctor, nothing is wrong, so they just kind of shrug. Best they can do is guess that either it's some random bad luck with some food or some stress reaction (half the time it's at a place like a hotel, and I almost never go to hotels).

65k without even Inflation adjustment could be rough...

But this is at 47, much depends on what happened up to this point. For example if you had a very strong run and had 2 mil on a 401k already.. I might be tempted to ride it out. I actually kind of like the idea of taking classes that I just feel like taking. Also depends on the family situation.

I've actually been imagining this sort of scenario for finishing out my career. I keep imagining my luck running out and needing to find something, anything to bridge me to retirement. Ideally with less office politics. Working at a university for access to classes has been on the list of fallback careers, under the hope that my 401k can largely take care of itself now.

Yes, technically the truth. In practice the vast vast majority of consumers bought from a business that imported the item. So it's good to highlight people have options, but the broad point of the post stands, that the businesses have the option of pocketing the difference and most of them seem to be taking that option.

As little as possible of my work is boilerplate, but some times there will be something like "I want to take width,height, and depth as arguments from the command as variables", and poof, all the argv tedium is done.

This is a point that really sticks with me. Using it for the sometimes spot on cakewalk segments is a fairly productive win. By the time you stubbornly insist on driving it entirely blackbox with chat and trying to get the right results without actually touching code... Well, even when it works, it's often more work than just doing it yourself.

Someone rebased a UI I worked on in a new version of the UI framework. As a result, there was this one odd gap in the UI in one specific place. A vibe coder spent 3 hours back and forth with the AI trying to get it to correct the gap and finally submitted their merge request. Hundreds and hundreds of lines of CSS. So I declined the merge request, open the gui, looked at the gap, hit f12, adjusted a single padding statement, and it was all good. People are struggling with defining all sorts of criteria and rigging it to let it try and try and try again and hopefully laid out every contingency, every corner case, and spent hours laying the ground work and could have done similar in a more straightforward way.

You are right, but right now we are living in a very messy reality where it's hard to know who's being stupid and who is using it well. One person I know that, well, I was never a huge fan of his work but at least it was somewhat serviceable is now all-in on AI and his code has been rewritten in a similar manner as the parent poster comments. He's got no idea how it works or how it should worked, the AI decided to rewrite it in an entirely different language, and it's a buggy mess and it never fixes the bugs without making new bugs. Then he hit his token quota 3 weeks early and basically said he was going to stop working on it because he no longer could manually work the codebase. He didn't ask for a rewrite, but AI advised him that his language choice was a poor fit and reworked things in another language, one that none of us use to that level of seriousness. It also made it largely based on super convoluted regular expressions.

The problem is that the leadership is singing the praises of these people, they were on their 'leaderboards' of AI adoption and much like the craze of praising "lines of codes", we are neck deep in the most stupid non-technical evaluation of technical work you could imagine.

A key word in that sentence is "if", it is a rhetorical example, that's probably pretty much correct at this point. It's not a recommended course of action, it's a declaration that it contrary to crazed hype, it isn't currently as core to everything as would be befitting the current hype level.

I would argue that the CEOs aren't on the correct track, they aren't really in a particularly specific trajectory. I just had a debate with someone on this and their stance was "well in a hundred years do you expect things to be like they are". My response "I cannot possibly speak to that, but we need to speak to today instead of pretending we know how things will be in a hundred years and pretending they are already at that level". The "imagine a hundred years from now" by a relative outsider to the tech is dominating CEO mindset, and that's problematic.

Once the bubble pops, we will almost certainly see a more durable and sane adoption for these technologies. For now, the hype is a problem as it enables some of the worst possible stewards of the technology and favors grift over progress.

I think it's a worthy simplification that sums up the current state of things well. We have AI that broadly has different uses and then we have the ChatBot/ChatBot derived AI applications. The market is not going insane over the broader AI category. Executives are not tripping over themselves to say things like machine vision is going to replace all labor, or at least all white collar labor. The chatbot is the only thing in the conversation of consequence.

All the "everyone says AI is the reality, so everyone feels like they must say AI is the reality" refers to this specific category. It might be veering towards being oversimplified, but it's trying to balance a perspective that is also oversimplified. Generally, we aren't good at weighing simple straightforward takes against complex nuanced takes, so you have to "net it out" to have any hope of the point landing.