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That saves a lot of money, and despite complaining people seem to accept the tradeoff of cheaper flights for an unpleasant experience. That comes from using basically the same technology as a half-century ago, with more customers.
Not to mention airframe improvements in both aerodynamics and materials.
Air travel (thanks to efficiencies) costs a fraction of what it used to, look up what % of people have traveled by air and compare that to previous decades.
Cars are safer than ever, per mile driven, for their occupants and substantially more comfortable. They're also more efficient, but we've consciously traded that for heavier cars for crash safety.
Lossless audio codecs are ubiquitous, and there are low-loss low-latency wireless audio codecs deployed to billions of devices.
Agree with the AI statement, though.
Someone elsewhere in the thread said this is how F-Droid works, but I can't confirm firsthand.
Who are these two voices? Well, we've got fragmede, who, looking through their HN profile, works at NVIDIA as a "senior AI infrastructure engineer", and we've got mh-, who, looking through their HN profile, works at Wunderkind, which is "pioneering a new category of AI agentic marketing".
So, the two people in here pushing messaging about how great and valuable AI is, and how it'll continue to get better, have their jobs/livelihood tied to AI and people continuing to pour money into AI.
It almost always turns out that way. The people protesting the loudest for some idea universally are somehow tied to profiting by convincing people of that idea. Not that that means they're wrong, of course. Just providing context.
My opinion was simply in reaction to an, IMO, nonsensical claim:
> AI is now as good as it's going to get
And it would have been the same no matter what* technology we're discussing.
* Ok, someone commented NFTs. But I never considered that a technology.
(Since it's in the thread now: my opinions are mine, not my employer's.)
It's been two years now since such commonly agreed upon signs appeared yet by and large they're still just as present to this day.