well, maybe you should own your agent and fund a cooperative for that purpose?

so: where do you go and what do you do? All your land and food is subject to property laws and the way things are going the owners will be allowed violence to enforce their rights. Essentially you'll be a serf again just like 99% of other people and 95% on this site (which sadly has owners very much intent to become our lords)

>so: where do you go and what do you do?

Literally anywhere else where a house doesn't cost 7 figures? I think you're missing the point of the OP, which is that nobody is going to want to buy overpriced houses in superstar cities, and that bodes badly for real estate agents.

Private equity will buy them all up and rent them out.

We will own nothing and be told to be happy or else.

look at grist! I played around with it and it seemed quite awesome.

Not even remotely near Access 2.0 from 1994.

TIL hn will tell me about archeology just a bikeride from my office.

very fun!

probably the likes of Enics and GPV - nowadays this is likely a field overrun by military demand and private equity squeezing the supply side... Also I doubt that they can/want to compete with jlcpcb et al.

Good to see that hands are still not solved...

> It also strikes me as a uniquely difficult challenge to track down the decision maker who is willing to take the risk on revamping these systems (AI or not).

here that person is a manager which got demoted from ~500 reports to ~40 and then convinced his new boss that it's good to reuse his team for his personal AI strategy which will make him great again.

I work at a shop (a specialized provider for finance in your eyes) which still has the "transaction" workload on IBM z/OS (IMS/DB2). The parts we manage (in Openshift) interface with that (as well as other systems) and I have heard of people/seen the commits moving PL/I to Cobol. In 2021. Given Cobol's nature, those apps have more than 1k LoC easily.

We also sublease our mainframes to at least 3 other ventures; one of which is very outspoken they have left the mainframe behind. I guess that's true if you view outsourcing as (literally) leaving it behind with the competitor of your new system... It seems to be the same for most banks, none of which are having mainframes anymore publicly, but for weird reasons they still hire people for it offshore.

Given that our (and IBM's!) services are not cheap I think either a) our customers are horribly dysfunctional in anything but earning money slow and steady (...) and b) they actually might depend on those mainframe jobs. So if you are IBM or a startup adding AI to IBM I guess the numbers might add up to the claims.

how large are the clusters then?

we have on-prem with heavy spikes (our batch workload can utilize the 20TB of memory in the cluster easily) and we just don't care much and add 10% every year to the hardware requested. Compared to employing people or paying other vendors (relational databases with many TB-sized tables...) this is just irrelevant.

Sadly devs are incentivized by that and going towards the cloud might be a fun story. Given the environment I hope they scrap the effort sooner rather than later, buy some Oxide systems for the people who need to iterate faster than the usual process of getting a VM and replace/reuse the 10% of the company occupied with the cloud (mind you: no real workload runs there yet...) to actually improve local processes...

Somewhat unrelated, but you just tied wasteful software design to high it salaries, and also suggest a reason why Russian programmers might also seem to on the whole be far more effective than we are

I wonder if msft simply cut dev salaries by 50% in the 90s, would it have had any measurable effect on windows quality by today