Samer Bechara 3rd+Finding my voice by being real, so you can fin...2dElon Musk hinted software developers will become jobless soon. He believes software should be built using simple text prompts. Just like we generate images and videos now.He stated this in one of his interviews, and soon enough Grok will have this feature.Elon has it always right. This time I am not sure. As more people start building software, they will create more bugs. Regular users will create software, developers will focus on fixing bugs rather than building new features.This reminds me of when WordPress was released. It created more jobs for developers than it actually took away.
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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Well, reusable rockets are worth it

This was already known, but NASA going through the test phase that involved rockets exploding get very different public push back compared to a private company using government money to do the same thing.

, LEO satellite Internet being worthwhile,

Already known, but the negative side effects that starlink ignores were the reason that didn't take off.

electric cars being a thing.

Electric cars were already a thing. My dad had a home made prototype one based on regular old car batteries with a very limited range in the 80s. What needed to catch up was battery tech, and Tesla was already an electric car company before Musk took over so his involvement has been to get government subsidies for the company to 'innovate' by ignoring laws and make shitty decision like hidden handles or limiting teslas fancy cruise control to cameras that gets people killed.

Other than securing government funding to prop those companies up he hasn't positively contributed to any of those things. All of his other decisions are wrong and he is a dumbass on the technical side who was born into money and knows how to influence people.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    I'm not sure I'd call LEO satellite benefits already known and dismiss them like that.

    People were calling Starlink an impossible business model for years and years and years.... but it was the first one to actually succeed, and provide a rather good service actually.

    If you've used Starlink because there are no better options then you would understand just how good it is for filling in the Internet coverage gaps that will always exist to some extent

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