dtcwee: The Value of Nothing

My browser-based flight simulator now has clouds. Soarer Home Page (GitHub) Soarer Project Page (GitHub) 2016: I code in Notepad, host on a small Adelaide ISP's free web space, and duct-tape together esoteric (to me) mathematical concepts into code. 2026: An AI code assistant, integrated into my IDE churns out code and helps debug it. Playing flight sims as a kid didn't make me want to fly IRL. It made me want to make a better flight sim. Clouds are the final major feature. I'm just going to enjoy flying from now on.  (But it sure makes me feel small.)

Versus robots. 🤖 The flood of low cost Chinese labour will ebb, according to Goodhart and Pradhan in "The Great Demographic Reversal", leading to: higher inflation. manufacturing elsewhere becoming more competitive. ( un-paywalled from Nikkei Shimbun ) Apparently good news for those in developed nations who have long clamoured for fair prices and fair wages, and who blame globalisation for undercutting them. But when? And for how long?