Not the EU, but I once accidentally entered Switzerland in the Zürich airport. The passport counter was unmanned and the doorway next to it was open, so I assumed there is another checkpoint somewhere further.
When a guy started chasing after me 30 seconds later I realized my assumption was wrong. But there really wasn't a way to know.
Russia's goal is direct annexation of about quarter of the Ukrainian territory and installing a lifelong puppet regime to control the other three quarters. Ukrainians stand to lose not just their voice and any semblance of economic prosperity, but also their very identity.
With the exception of extreme cases like Gaza, it doesn't get more binary than that.
The LLM might change the economy of this, but I doubt it.
I tend to believe that the engineering culture you describe will end up producing similar or, as Joel postulates, an even worse result, just dressed up in a modern stack.
If the technical leadership remains the very same one that enabled such a culture, I don't see them being able to suddenly produce a genuinely better software product only because an LLM is in a picture - especially considering how easy it is to convince an LLM that your idea is the best one.
> and that got me thinking that there's potentially a different type of gambling app that ignores the money and is more of a social/prediction-making platform
We have that in the Netherlands and we do it massively for every World Cup and Euro. The app my friend groups are on, Scorito, has 1.5 million competitors for the current WC, in the country of 18 million, and that's not the only app.
Normally a group would make a small buy in, like €5, where the winner takes all, but this year the legal department at work forbade that, se that sort of gambling Is actual illegal.
Same here. I'll be in a market soon and I had my eyes on a VW i4 or a Škoda Enyaq, but this makes me seriously reconsider. I really wanted to support local industry and buy a European product this time, but they are making it seriously difficult (no, don't get me even started on Stellantis).
As someone who's pro-EU, I'd also really like to see major reforms within the organization.
While it contributes enormously to the welfare of the continent, the EU is by design dysfunctional and toothless.
I'm a pessimist, there is so much money behind the forces that want to see the EU fall apart because small individual countries are easier to buy off, I don't see how we can defend against that.
We'll only know what we lost when it's gone, but then it'll be too late.
When a guy started chasing after me 30 seconds later I realized my assumption was wrong. But there really wasn't a way to know.