I don’t understand the jargon. They’re were using cruise missles decades ago, so why weren’t they kamikaze? Because they were self directed? Could not jam them as they didn’t communicate and didn’t have to use gps.

It likely has more to do with the air foils (wings) which are required to keep it aloft? Same for quad prop drones

Versus missile that just goes balls to the walls and only needs air foils for steering, if I venture an educated guess

Perun talked about this in one of his videos in the last year or so

Tomahawks are subsonic and long-range, so I assume they're flying with a ramjet or other small jet engine. The anti-ship kinds seem to be (far?) shorter ranged and they can really boogie. Speed there to avoid the defensive missles.

I see this as a very frustrating move by the PM, undercutting much of what got him elected. But what do I know.

How do they know the replacement isn’t worse? Religious organizations have all sorts of potential successors, and there’s nothing stopping a secular reaction to religion from occurring as well. None of these will be favourable to those bombing the shit out of Iran. Remember Ataturk.

I guess they can try to claim it's an order making them open to court-martial if they're attending?

This suggests that Trump and Netanyahu are also fair game. Or is everything one-sided?

What’s wrong with you?

Nothing. Just pointing out the symmetry that results when decapitwting regimes is considered in play. Works both way. Don’t follow the rules of war and things can get messy.

Have they downgraded the plan to "avoids explosive disassembly" yet? Or are they going to stop at "makes it back in one piece with containment intact"?

Perhaps on dry roads in clear weather on well-mapped terrain. I suspect when the snow/fog/glop hits or it's off California freeways there's going to be a step-function re: performance. I've seen this with human drivers who are/aren't experienced in northern-bad-weather, so why should AI be any different as it reflects its training set.

Developers are “unwanted overhead” until the customer money threatens to walk out the door. They’re going to damage their future products and probably reduce their customer base (fewer consumers) and then sit there looking like gaffed fish when the budget ink turns red. “Who would have thought…”

Don’t facilitate losing your job.

Funny part is we've already had this exact thing happen with outsourcing. It sure looked like a bargain until you got to such pesky details as correctness and maintainability.

I am starting to think it is a part of the management cycle. They new batch feels confident they can do X so they have to re-learn, while inflicting ridiculous amount of pain the process.

Two years ago, one former exec at my place was perfectly happy to throw resources ( his word ) from India at a problem, while unwilling to pay the vendor for the same thing. I voiced my objection once, but after it was dismissed I just watched the thing blow up.

I am not saying current situation is the same. It is not. But, it is the same hubris, which means miscalculations will happen ( like with Dorsey's Block mass firing ).

History truly repeats itself. C-suites will forever be the source of stupid decisions in our profession.

C-suites are the source of all the important decisions, both the great ones and the stupid ones. The great people in the C-suite have figured out how to get advice from people who are below them and not "yes-men" to tell them what to decide - but right or wrong the buck stops there.

For quite a while i was thinking how we're in the phase one: mountains of unmaintainable garbage code being generated... and once the shit hits the fan, some maintainability ceiling gets reached - "the real programmers" will be summoned to clean up and deal with this shit.

Now I've come to realize the error in my ways, this is probably not going to happen. What will happen is instead is that the ones doing the "shuffling of shit" is just going to also be agents themselves. Prompted by a more senior slop-grammer specialized in orchestrating "shuffling of shit".

You still have to ship a product though.

This task was famously incredibly difficult back when we had people producing unmaintainable mountains of millions of lines of code, to the point where shipping anything sizable in a working state on time without last minute scope reductions is nearly unheard of.

I can't imagine using AI to add another one to two zeroes to the lines of code counter would help reach the goal post.

Testing to ensure the product works as expected is more than half of the product development labor if you want a quality product. This includes time spends on things like the mandatory "anti-harassment" training any competent HR is forcing you to once in a while even though not related to product delivery (or so I hope - some should be fired for the problems you are causing by not living that training)

LLMs can write a lot of code. they can even write a comprehensive test suite for that code. However they can't tell you if it doesn't work because of some interaction with something else you didn't think about. They can't tell you that all race conditions are really fixed (despite being somewhat good at tracking them down when known). They can't tell you that the program doesn't work because it doesn't do something critical that nobody thought to write into the requirements until you noticed it was missing.

SOS.. i just got it.

AI and RTO are wonderful tools to get rid of workers with little short-term hassle or expense. If things go pear shaped in 6 months, it’ll be somebody else’s fault…. Going to suck being in a world of brittle, bloated software that few (if any) know how to fix without regenerating entirely new code by asking with a changed prompt.

Save your old machines that run old software. Use them to debug virtual machines that will let you continue. Or, reduce the software overhand of your business as much as possible to minimize damage.

Start with “they probably violate the UN Charter, along with international law”. But such concepts and arguments seem so quaint anymore.

Well Iran recently slaughtered tens of thousands of peaceful protesters. And guards from the islamic republic of Iran went as far as going into hospitals to find wound protesters and execute them.

A few concepts may be quaint but I guarantee you that they're even quainter when a country is ruled by sharia law, like Iran.

If you invade countries that mistreat their citizens, the US is the big, loud one over there near Mexico and Canada. Have fun.