This is one thing I definitely find with AI coding. I'm building all kinds of software not that I couldn't have built before, but I couldn't justify the effort before.
For an alternate perspective on these drones, see this interview with rapper "DreamLife Rizzy" where he talks about how these technologies have made it impossible for him and his associates to do crimes in San Francisco
Sounds like a horrible idea since the insurance pool is limited to the size of the ship. Hopefully at least it’s averaged by value rather than number of containers so that if someone is shipping corn and a container of iPhones gets jettisoned they don’t get a bill for their life savings.
Going “obsolete” isn’t uniform. A product can go obsolete for your use case without going obsolete for mine. An audiophile might consider a platform that doesn’t support the latest surround sound protocol as “obsolete” while I would not even notice.
“easy deployment” makes bug fixes fast, and the subscription business model gives the developer a financial incentive to make those fixes. I’d say the average Web app is more robust than the average desktop app... even small one-person web apps are usually pretty good. At the very high end from the huge companies like Apple, Microsoft, Spotify, Adobe, Autodesk, etc. the desktop apps are better.
That’s like saying “learn to drive a Formula One car if you want to feel safe driving at 65 miles an hour.” Sure, it works, but it’s impractical and unnecessary for everyone to do this.
This is why we need an actual competent politician who takes China seriously and is willing to use a lot of American resources to fight things like abuse of IP law, etc.
