General Discussion

... have the airplane I'm flying in miss the runway, or have my house lit on fire by a "smart" clothes dryer.

Code written scattershot with AI assistance is much harder to maintain than well structured code written by thoughtful humans using well established libraries.

I'll confess to be a Luddite. New high tech consumer products rarely impress me.

I drive an old pickup truck and it's a tossup between the fuel injection / emission control system and the AM/FM radio as to which has the more complex electronics.

I use the oldest 4GLTE flip phone I could find a replacement battery for. It's small, it's rugged, and it doesn't have to be recharged every day. Mostly I use it as a phone, sometimes for texts, rarely as a camera.

I'm a Linux guy and the way I use Linux is very similar to the way I used BSD in the late 'seventies and early 'eighties.

What sorts of technology have actually made the world a better place?

Just the thought of being tethered to an iPhone horrifies me. This Halloween a young teen came to our door dressed as a KPop Demon Hunter ( my best guess ) and simply held up her trick-or-treat bag without a word, her eyes glued to her cell phone.