Interesting. I hid the Ask Leo button eons ago when it showed up, so I never feel an "AI encroach."
That being said, I've used "Ask Leo" a handful of time, with mixed results. It's really good for "Give me the TLDR" or "Find the part of the page that talks about X".
In a hierarchical organization, there's a lot less room at the top: There's only one CEO, only a handful of executive positions, ect. Not everyone needs to be a leader to be successful.
> Agentic tools collapsed one of those paths and not the other. The engineer’s advantage, the ability to translate a domain model into working code, is now cheap. The domain expert’s advantage, knowing what right looks like, is not.
Not yet.
We won't be there until AI is more like a virtual person, where the domain expert trains the AI in a similar manner to training a real person.
At this point, agentic coding only eliminates the engineer when creating very simple applications. Once the application gets complex, either the domain expert needs to become an engineer, or an engineer is needed.
I suspect it is impractical to refrigerate a large volume of water in short order. Heck, if I take 2-3 glasses of water out of my refrigerator's water dispenser, it's at tap temperature.
To put it differently, think through what it would take to refrigerate the volume of water that they are spraying. Can someone pull that together in a matter of minutes or hours?
Yeah that's fair. It does make me wonder what there is that would allow this. Maybe importing some snow machines from Tahoe? :-)
I'm actually a little surprised that a quick search for "refrigerated liquid transport" didn't turn up anything. I would have sort of thought this was something that would exist (just because there are so many random things that are necessary for _some purpose_).
> Maybe importing some snow machines from Tahoe? :-)
That's not even funny:
1: Snowmaking equipment doesn't involve any chillers, they work by spraying a fine mist when the temperature is below freezing.
2: (Unless something changed in the last decade), the vast majority of snow in Tahoe is natural, not man-made.
3: There are closer ski areas than Tahoe. Mountain High, Mammoth...
4: Even if snowmaking involved chilling, (which it doesn't), it requires a significant amount of water and pressurized air, which requires specialized equipment and access to an energy source. It's assembled in the off season. Is it even practical to assemble all that in a matter of hours? Heck, is it even practical to disassemble it at a ski area's snowmaking equipment, truck it, and then re-assemble it?
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Lesson for you: Keep your assumptions in check. You keep coming up with very creative, but highly impractical, solutions.
If you're on an engineering team, bring your suggestions with a dose of humility, learn to listen, and see how more experienced people solve problems.
Furthermore, in a time-sensitive situation, constantly explaining to someone why their creative ideas are impractical takes precious time away from solving the real problem.
Snow machines are just big spray nozzles. They don't chill the water the way you might be thinking. There's some adiabatic cooling from the expansion of compressed air, but that's about it.
Refrigerated liquid transport absolutely exists. Milk trucks is an example off the top of my head. Liquified natural gas is another.
Well, "Ice Cold" water is ice and ice trucks are a thing - not to mention for fast substantive cooling 0 Celsius ice blocks on top of the tank would soak up far more heat energy than the same weight of 0 Celsius water.
As for the transportation of cold liquids, there are many LNG / Propane trucks about - pressurised containers for Liquefied Natural Gas.
> It tells Usa based org got grant to research Coronaviruses.
Yes, because coronaviruses are one of the largest and most common family of viruses, that cause everything from the common cold to SARS and MERS. Researching coronaviruses was important long before COVID-19.
Educating yourself is a good antidote to irrational conspiracy theories.
That being said, I've used "Ask Leo" a handful of time, with mixed results. It's really good for "Give me the TLDR" or "Find the part of the page that talks about X".
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