With every respect to your niece, and all software programmers, they often are not aware of what they don't know. One of the biggest mistakes I've seen many companies make, and been called in to fix, as a Systems Engineering consultant, is to leave the systems Engineering up to programmers, who might never have had the hands on experience of trashing an awful lot of expensive hardware, on route to electronics and electromechanical hardware that actually works.

Well designed modern vehicles including aircraft, submarines, and spacecraft are usually the product of model based systems Engineering nowadays, along with the systems they are intended to work in. They will be pre-simulated "To death", before committing anything to hardware, and the hardware is usually protected now with things like DRM, which makes them virtually tamper proof, so that only the manufacturer can make modifications or repairs to it - the system will simply refuse to work, if all parameters do not fit, when the system starts up - its so that lifetimes can be decided on the system, nobody is supposed to have the resources to be able to make their product work for a second longer than it is designed to work - this is modern profit driven manufacturing, unfortunately.

Anyhow, I love ChatGPT too, it is on course to really upset the applecart. I can't wait to see it pan out.

I don't know if you've seen me mention this elsewhere; it has fixed my Ubuntu PC three times now, after rogue v23.04 development Ubuntu updates borking the graphics driver configuration. It fixes thes problems by asking for the log files it needs to check for error messages, telling me what to download from the Ubuntu repository, and what configuration changes I need to make, to get it working again, and it works. This is beyond what I was ever able to do before with Ubuntu. By now if it hadn't been fixed by ChatGPT I might have given up and just stuck Windows back on the machine to get it working properly again. Notice 23.04 is way after the data ChatGPT says it was programmed with. On another occasion I found out by trial and error that it can actually create interfaces between itself and any environment we want it to, just by asking it how, it spits out the code meeting our specification.

Now imagine I created an interface to it, allowing it to automatically fix my machine, rather than be having to ask it, and someone at the Ubuntu repository realises they can get it to automatically update their part of the Ubuntu repository, and maybe you see where that goes - fully automated Ubuntu. From that point on, ChatGPT would not only be able to make sure everyone's hardware works with every update, but also it could create the code on the Ubuntu repository, meeting the specifications of anyone looking for new functionality on their machine.

Notice how quickly operating systems can swallow up apps, becoming part of the OS.

How would Windows be able to compete with that?

They must be shaking in their boots, I think, the writing is surely on the wall for them :)

It might sound callous of me to say that, but I would also say it could do my job too, it is the best Systems Engineer I ever met.

Hence why I think this is all part of a grand plan, much bigger than we can know, to put everyone out of the old jobs we did for profit, because we have to stop working for profit, to fix the global energy problem.

It all fits perfectly as far as I can see. The only question is how much pain are we going to be put through, in the death throes of the old all for profit system.

That part I don't know, but I hope its sorted before too much of gen Z's prospects for life are removed. It's for them I hope most it is fixed soon.