Readit News> Effort estimation is an important component of any project, software or otherwise.
The most “important component”, what does that even mean? Do they mean task? Isn’t the most important thing to deliver results? Which could mean working software or aborting bad projects
I drive 1000km so rarely I'd be happy to tow a small trailer that's simply an extended range battery that you can hire for the journey.
From "Courage to Create" by Rollo May: "It is said that the novelist Thomas Wolfe, who was one of the highly creative figures of the American scene, that he was a "genius without talent." But he was so creative because he threw himself so completely in the material and the challenge of saying it-he was great because of the intensity of his encounter"
Apologies going philosophical, its the only way to debate such an answer-science has no real answers for this title we call "staff engineer"
No one knows what AGI is. There isn't going to be some switch that flips to take us from AI to AGI. These tools we have today will just keep getting incrementally better, and some new ones will pop up, and at some point we'll have to stop and say "yeah, this is good enough to qualify". And everyone will have their own opinion on what that point is. Plenty of people even think that we are there today, and there's nothing stopping Google or OpenAI from claiming it if they want.
And you can say the exact same for consciousness, sentience, self-awareness etc.
I recently test drove a Mazda, and while I’ve seen people online complain about their “commander knob” and lack of touch screen, I liked it pretty well. Screen up further on the dashboard is nice for glancing at maps.
Also remember - if I am doing repairs for fun, I only count the parts cost.
But if I go to professional mechanic, it's $100/hr in labour. So $1000 might be $300 of parts and a day of labour to restore to safe operation an old motorcycle.
That is quite in line with the amount of work I've seen friends do to bring old bikes back on road (well... my friends would spend weeks and dozens of hours, but we're assuming mechanics are more efficient:)