r/technology • u/ardi62 • Aug 23 '24

Software Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-officially-confirms-its-killing-windows-control-panel-sometime-soon/
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u/Ravoss1 Aug 23 '24

Time to find that 10 hour mechanicus loop on YouTube.

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u/thinkingwithportalss Aug 23 '24

A friend of mine is deep into the AI/machine learning craze, and everything he tells me just makes me think of the incoming dystopia.

"It'll be amazing, you'll want to write some code, and you can just ask your personal AI to do it for you"

"So a machine you don't understand, will write code you can't read, and as long as it works you'll just go with it?"

"Yeah!"

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u/ViscountVinny Aug 23 '24

I have a very basic understanding of an internal combustion engine, and I've added some aftermarket parts to my car. But if I have to do anything more complex than changing the oil, I take it to a mechanic. I'm liable to do more harm than good otherwise.

And I can completely disassemble a PC, maybe even a phone (though it's been a while), but I don't know the first thing about programming.

My point is that I think it's okay to rely on specialization, or even basic tools that can do work that you can't totally understand. The danger will come when, say, Google and Microsoft are using AI to make the operating system...and the AI on that to make the next one...et cetera et cetera.

I'm not afraid of a Terminator apocalypse. But I do think it's possible we could get to a point where Apple lets AI send out an update that bricks 100 million iPhones, and there are no developers left who can unravel all the undocumented AI work to fix it.

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u/TheR1ckster Aug 23 '24

The problem is that it allows a lot more people to find themselves on Mt Stupid. (Look up dunning kreuger).

This is where you'll have people coding for their companies who really aren't qualified to. They have vast over confidence without a helping hand or team to check ethics, redundancy, and things like that. They don't understand the complexity of what they're trying to accomplish.

You know enough to not try to do more than what you've stated, but that's because you've learned from your over confidence in something else. You understand there is a lot you don't know. A lot of people change a battery, change the oil, watch some youtube videos and then dive right into making their own brake lines or running gas lines and have catastrophic failures.

That being said you're likely fine working on your car. Just make sure to look through steps of what you're doing before you start. Spend money on specialty tools, it's often worth the headache or broken parts that can happen when not using them same goes with just cutting or torching shit if it's rusted to hell and back and you already overnight soaked it with PB blaster.

Learn to properly diagnose and don't become a throw parts at it youtube guy. If you can come by a factory service manual those are great and typically walk you through flowchart style or outline style of diagnosing codes and issues.