“The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason.”

Guess where AI Coding entered the picture

Worked for famous Japanese data platform for a few years. The Japanese engineers were collegial but some who didn't come in to the office were actually Hikikomori focused on very narrow things and were very nitpicky about details that wouldn't have ultimately mattered. Those that came into the Tokyo office lived to work and I saw people regularly sleeping at their desk after having stayed out all night for obligatory whiskey outing with colleagues and arriving at the office at 6 am as expected. The San Fran office was the opposite, very sloppy standards people, getting in at noon and staying up late to meet deadlines. The impedence mismatch between the two environments was almost unbearable.

So is this a backtrack or clarification on their original stance? Do I need to be worried about skynet killing grandma?

You are citing negative metrics. The reality is that companies only care about positive metrics: increase marginal revenue by 30%

That's regardless of the lip service they pay to cost cutting or risk reduction. It will only get worse, in the AI economy it's all about growth.

This would just record a lot of me cursing at and calling the AI an idiot.

"Power doesn’t corrupt. It reveals." — Robert Caro

Great follow up, i agree

If ever I saw something that made me want to move to a log cabin the woods and never touch a computer again, this is it

Lol, does any of this matter anymore with AI coding? It was hard to get people to care about this sort of thing before ai coding, now its impossible. People in a few years will be coding without even knowing what unix is.

Ok, why don't you work on getting 3.0 out of preview first? 10 min response time is pretty heinous

I agree, according to Googles terms you are not allowed to use the preview model for production use cases. And 3.0 has been in preview for a loooong time now :(