Huh. I never really thought about what you wrote about airbnb, but it hit me hard now. My partner actually works for an Airbnb and they have an enormous amount of property and apartments in rural areas which could’ve housed families. And to think there are many more of these businesses doing the same thing.

I rarely use airbnbs, I prefer hotels, so I haven’t done a lot of contribution there but still, this has convinced me to never use one. Unless, the stay is in their house, or in a small house in their garden etc, which I actually have been in some years ago.

I hope I live long enough to experience this scenario.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll add this to my reading list. I’m currently reading through “the rust book” right now, seems this will be the ideal followup. Also got through a book on data-oriented design recently, then I need to finish reading the book on Bevy, and then I think I’ll be ready to switch to Rust and the Bevy engine. A lot of reading this year, but I can tell I’ll be happy with rust and ECS before long.

We’ve all had our fun now with watching companies and investors throwing billions on these LLMs but after all that we have something which does not solve billion dollar problems… They’ve already scrubbed all the data out there and let’s be frank here, the LLMs still suck. It feels like chatting with these LLMs is like overcoming an obstacle, I end up doing web searches myself most of the time anyway. These LLMs can’t think or reason, let’s stop trying to fake it and start using these models for something useful. Medical is the obvious one. Surveillance and military will probably be where the shift will be to primarily. There will be interesting things with pattern recognition for sound and images, but that’s about it.