If you jump on social media these days, there is still a lot of rather uninformed commentary regarding ChatGPT. I also noticed a trend among non-technical people gloating that software engineers will soon be out of work because their job can now be automated as well. I will dispel this notion as it is, quite… Continue reading AI and the Future of Software Engineering
In my last article I wrote about why politicians rather cynically fight climate change than solve real problems. This is not just a problem of politicians but of leadership, or the lack thereof, in general. In this article, I describe some of the nonsense I have witnessed in a supposedly highly objective, technical profession. I… Continue reading The Allure of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
What sometimes baffles me is how little people seem to care about anything. No matter where you look, they are only half-assing it. Phoning it in is absolutely an art form in public administration, industry, education, and everywhere else. When was the last time you had a craftsman come who did not cut some corners?… Continue reading A Lot of People Don’t Make Any Effort (Particularly in Higher Education)
One of the more interesting books I recently read is Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis (2016) by Nicholas Eberstadt who is associated with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). In around 150 pages, Eberstadt thoroughly spreads out what should be a prime issue in US labor policy. Yet, as so often, the fate of men… Continue reading Book Review: Men Without Work by Nicholas Eberstadt
I do not know how authentic Aaron Clarey is. For the following, I therefore take his online videos at face value and assume that he is not deliberately putting up a false front. If you have some familiarity with his work, you may know that he quit a commercial banking gig and since then gets… Continue reading Dealing with Corporate Bullshit the Aaron Clarey Way Versus the Right Way
I wrote two posts on Google on my other blog. One was on the demonetization of my old blog on their Blogger platform, to which I added ads at the very end. It didn’t last long until I was hit with several automated emails because their SJW algorithms came across content they didn’t quite agree… Continue reading James Damore’s Lawsuit Against Google
