Unless it’s Transformers, where every movie has Prime.

Though pre-DVR TV and especially a household too poor for cable the television was… a bit less continuously interesting. Having even a VCR was just amazing and that was a royal pain meaning you really had to pick and choose what to record. Most of the time you didn’t even have anything you wanted to watch that happened to be playing right then. Even when you did want to watch, good chance it is a rerun and you only half paid attention if you bothered at all.

The on-demand nature of it and the volume of it are really what makes it just constant.

Exactly, my generation grew up with the good brain rot, we all knew the same marketing jingles and all made our parents spend their money on the same toys the cartoons told us to get.

Which brings us to why Ford doesn’t want to do cars, because the standards give them a break if it is a “truck”.

Complication is, broadly speaking, much of the decision making only thinks to when their current bonus stock vests. So long term thinking is not well rewarded. If you think long term, then your short term thinking competitor screws you up long enough anyway.

I strongly suspect the next step is for a dramatic reduction in the compensation for software development. If it’s not really significantly any more profitable than another trade, then you won’t see as many people who seem to actively hate it trying to do it anyway.

Reminds me of a conversation I overhead, a guy trying to impress a girl with how much money he was going to get back in college. He was going into software development to make big money. Girl asks “but I thought you were majoring in communications, why do that if you want to do software?”. “Oh, well, I tried but I couldn’t understand the course work, so dropped it, figured I’d just get some degree, and then just get some certification and do software development for the money without the dumb coursework”. Basically since the late 90s we’ve had a flood of those types, and this phenomenon just exacerbates the problem.

To the extent they “suffer”, maybe some of them go from billionaire to merely hundreds of millions.

Provlem being is that it is not an equal amplifier.

Good engineer spends a morning going back and forth and maybe gets something done that wild have taken them all day.

Bad engineer puts first draft slop in production in a couple of minutes.

Bad engineer gets to put out something every few minutes, good engineer works too make it actually right instead of merely looking specifically right.

Yeah, my manager expressed satisfication with me being one of the people using my quota of tokens.

I have generated so much throwaway content that never gets used and only gets deleted to burn the tokens to avoid getting the “you aren’t using AI enough” talk. The fact they can see my actual productive output and believe AI is involved shows how utterly disconnected the metric is from reality.

Which is insane, as the OS doesn’t have any way to authoritatively measure the user’s age and so they have to be ‘honor system’ where the age is whatever the user says the age is, or require some online account with identity validation, which is what facebook tries to do anyway.