Well from the outside it looks something like a house. It’s only when you go inside you realize it’s all cardboard toothpicks and super glue holding it up. There’s no bathrooms or closets. Just a living room. A single room.

It has no doors, and that brown thing is just a painting of a door in an otherwise solid wall. The windows, too.

For my experience a decent portion of construction workers are on drugs, on and off site, so it doesn't surprise me.

• There seems to be a misconception and what I said. Not suggesting they aren't hurrying and doing a shoddy job. My point is is you can't work solid 18 hours day after day. It's not possible without a recovery. But to avoid that they take drugs.

So you have a whole bunch of sloppy jobs that aren't done properly, by people who need r&r, not meth, cocain or opioids.

That's why it doesn't surprise me

And why AI companies push back hard on regulations and accountability.

I've long said (well before AI) that we must have similar kinds of regulation for software, especially software that is used as infrastructure. This includes ~all social media, operating systems obviously, productivity software, shopping websites/apps... It's all the wild west, with so many dark patterns and predatory tactics, all of which regulation would ban. Software engineers would have to be certified and personally responsible for their design, just like civil engineers.

It would have to be balanced somehow with software freedom. I don't want to add any barriers for hobbyists and bedroom programmers just wanting to play around with code and share it. But at the same time, I see that barriers are sorely needed for everyone else.

I’m guessing most commentary will be about software, but there was an analysis I heard of, claiming that construction is one of very few industries across economic sectors that just hasn’t made any kind of efficiency advancements in decades. Most other systems follow some kind of workflow improvement, or inventions that significantly improve some part of the process. But home building has only gotten harder and more expensive for making the same homes as before.

Maybe we’re seeing the same in game development. You look at what games were made during PS360 on multiple odd architectures, low memory, and comparatively small teams, and see how much things are faltering since then.

Regulations stifle innovation!

/s

Now imagining how it would be if it was expected, perhaps even mandated that every building have cameras and microphones built into the walls. Grand majority of criminals live in buildings after all

But the market will regulate itselt. Right? Right?

They all got laid off so one guy can not watch the work happen.

Lol exactly what I was thinking. And if it were structurally sound, it'd probably actually look pretty cool.

Which one did they turn into an AI?

Spoiler: it won't be, and the proper buildings will cost twice as much because they'll be in demand.

both are real engineers (but no, a simple programmer is not a software engineer), so you can skip the quotes. but yes, CIVIL engineers are licensed, opposed to most other (mechanical, electrical....) engineers