Honor among thieves!

Hey, there are rules to split the loot honorably. This is totally unacceptable!

Digging a well using manual tools is a skill. Using a machine to dig is also a skill. They are distinct skills. So if people change the way work is done, skills themselves shift.

Using AI appropriately and efficiently and safely is a skill. Similar to using a mechanized excavator. It can do the work 10x faster but it can also do a lot of damage quickly as well.

Those who don't realize this and not adapt to the new skill set required by the industry will lose their jobs. It will cause a loss/atrophy of prior skills and development of new skills but that is inevitable.

Those who have the prior set of skills do have an advantage over those who don't have them. But the new set of required skills can be developed without having the earlier ones too. The most proficient in the new set of skills may or may not be the ones that were most proficient in the old skills.

I am in a similar situation but I have a different take. Skills themselves are shifting. Where the world is going, professional skills will be closer to what you are doing now. In my view, the valuable part will be to become the person who is responsible. How you do your work, in terms of how much AI you use, will likely become less and less material (in the sense that it will not be an issue if you use a lot of AI to achieve your goals).

Obviously, those who use little or no AI will not be able to deliver as much as those who do. But as long as you become the person who is responsible and show a track record off mitigating things quickly and professionally and able to take responsibility, it will accelerate career progression really fast.

There will be exceptions, of course, like in systems/software where lives are dependent on it or laws are super strict on the software working exactly as expected, but those are going to be exceptions that prove the general rule.

Only when one party does it. See how quickly this will be ruled/interpreted the other way if a Dem admin does it next time.

I admire the optimism; but unfortunately it benefits ANY party in power, so there's little incentive to ignore or overrule. The gauntlet is thrown.

You say this as if Trump cares about a law passed by the congress. If congress had passed this law, Trump would still face no consequences. Courts will take many years to process it and then the Supreme court will dismiss it anyway as some sort of official action etc. Note that the Supreme Court will rule in a way that it can be reversed in case a similar case arises for a Dem admin.

Everyone important/rich/connected will be pardoned. Peons will be left holding the bag, as always.

Those peons deserve to go to jail just as much as the ringleaders do. Perhaps they can get reduced sentences by testifying against the higher level criminals.

You are forgetting the trump card of Supreme Court. They will block any change or effort by Democrats no matter how many seats dems win.

Mitch McConnell holding the seat then railroading in a judge is bad faith cheating and we can't be constrained by procedure and let bad faith actors get away with cheating.

Revoke the appointments and change the rules. SCOTUS isn't some unquestionable papal position with divine right.

The wild corruption of accepting gifts from groups arguing on the court and then using Galaxy brain weasel language to claim it doesn't count. No. Every person in prison has a reason why the law shouldn't have applied to them.

Are we a nation of rules or aren't we?

You follow the rules and maintain integrity of your oath or you're kicked to the curb.

And calling this a both sides political thing is the most tired dodge I've seen. I'm tired of the bullshit excuses why someone with a Trump has can rob bank

Supreme court is the ultimate layer of protection and these criminals know it.

Impeachment doesn't accomplish much anyway. Conviction in the senate requires 75% votes and that is not happening even if this admin starts concentration camps for opposition.

One way to think about it is that visible corruption is a constant fraction of invisible corruption in the system. Like a fixed fraction of an iceberg that is visible. One can estimate total corruption in the system by what is visible/flagrant. Based on this, the order of magnitude of corruption being done by this admin is orders of magnitude more than prior ones.

Given that about a third of the voters are fully in support of this, and likely about similar numbers are oblivious, I expect that nothing will be done about it once this admin goes out of power.

Maybe a few people will be made scapegoats to pacify the third that want justice (likely low level/weak ones), but the top level of perpetrators will be untouched and keep most of the loot.