> We can talk for ages about the quality of the robot's work, the maintainability of the resulting home

All of this stuff is so new, and we're supposed to hand wave away quality and maintainability?

swat535 40 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You're thinking with your engineering brain.

For corporations, sales, probability and feature release cycles take priority over maintainability or code quality. AI is allowing businesses to build features faster than ever, so management is happy.

By the time maintainability issues hit, they've either pivoted, raised more capital or can throw money at the problem.

	▲	timmytokyo 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's a good thing structural and civil engineers don't design infrastructure this way.

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cowlevel 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Almost anyone will accept a 50% quality decrease for a 99% cost decrease. The only reasons I'm not living in a stack of cardboard boxes for $1 rent are that it's illegal, and the police won't protect it from break-ins.

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looseleaftea 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> The only reasons I'm not living in a stack of cardboard boxes for $1 rent are that it's illegal

My initial reaction to reading this is not "oh great analogy", it's "please have higher standards for your quality of living"

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lbrito 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can go and live in cardboard boxes right now for free. Why aren't you? Being technically legal or not is besides the point - there are places where it is tolerated.

	▲	john_strinlai 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>You can go and live in cardboard boxes right now for free. Why aren't you? this is why i try to avoid analogies whenever i can. we've cycled through like 3 different iterations of the analogy in 5 comments, just to land on this question.