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From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: kids these days
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 20:20:21 -0400
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"john larkin" <jl@glen--canyon.com> wrote in message news:rb5ufj1pc4uk139u9n0rljvrliqacpllq3@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:03:24 +0100, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:53:49 -0700, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:45:37 +0100, Clive Arthur
>>><clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 30/09/2024 19:11, john larkin wrote:
>>>><snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> If they get the DC part about right, I ask them for any other
>>>>> comments. All sorts of things could be mentioned.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the base looking at 5K, it's unlikley to oscillate. It would be a
>>>>> miracle if any kid even mentioned emitter follower oscillation. Or
>>>>> noise, or tempcos, or anything else.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Along with a colleague, I interviewed someone for a repair technician's
>>>>job a few years back.  Among the questions was a simple common emitter
>>>>single transistor stage which we asked him to explain.
>>>>
>>>>He blew us away.  He knew *far* more detail than either of us.  Turned
>>>>out he was a shit-hot analog designer looking for a less stressful job
>>>>as he wound down to retirement.  He turned out to be brilliant at his
>>>>new job, and mentored a lot of younger people.  He left when the company
>>>>was bought by a large US corporation with the concomitant mind-numbing
>>>>treacle-wading bullshit. [Me too!]
>>>
>>>I see the trend, good circuit designers retiring and not being
>>>replaced.
>>
>>Maybe not yet, but pretty soon AI will do it better than humans.
>
> Don't see how a simple quesion has enough information to generate a
> complex design.
>
> https://www.flux.ai/
>
> Why do we have garbage like Windows and Outlook if AI is available?

Because garbage made money and closed source meant no-one else could laugh at the code.

If Windows is ever rewritten by AI then it's likely to be in a way which does whatever is necessary to make more money.

>