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AI in Software Engineering

AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot have been emerging as ways to integrate AI into software engineering, by suggesting and autocompleting blocks of code, aitomating tasks, or debugging large code bases. The debate is over the extent to which AI increases coding efficiency and productivity as well as the ethics and reliability issues of using AI.

Voting rights in the US election

There are a lot of concerns around voting rights and debate over whether the current system disenfranchises people and discourages them from voting. Many challenges pop up from time to time like gerrymandering and redistricting, voting restrictions, requiring additional proof of citizenship, frivolous lawsuits, laws like line warming bans, the influence of campaign financing and super PACs, and free speech and censorship.

MTA fare enforcement

Recently the MTA has taken actions to try to enforce fares and crack down on “fare beaters.” Many enforcers have been added to bus and subway stations because the MTA reports millions of dollars in losses from fare skippers and wants to decrease fare evasion. There is a debate on how effective these strategies will be at stopping fare evasion.

Source 1 – AI

https://www.forbes.com/sites/delltechnologies/2024/09/18/how-ai-is-transforming-software-development

This source talks about the impact of AI tools in software engineering in different companies. They find uses for AI like cutting developer time and abstracting software development. Organizations like Nvidia, Amazon, and Eureka Labs are using and experimenting with generative AI already and boast about productivity boosts.

“Amazon used its Q digital assistant to cut the time it takes to upgrade Java applications from 50 developer days to a few hours, or the equivalent of 4,500 developer years’ worth of work, according to CEO Andy Jassy.”

Source 2 – Voting rights

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg78ljxn8g7o

This source talks about a controversy regarding Elon Musk and his America PAC. Recently, Elon Musk offered 1 million dollars a day to random swing state voters who sign his pro-Trump petition, which requires you to register to vote to sign. Legal experts have been debating whether this violates existing election and voting laws by offering money for people to register to vote. This shows the ongoing conflicts and arguments over strategies to turn out voters from your side or suppress voters from the other side.

“Federal law states that anyone who “pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting” faces a potential $10,000 fine or a five-year prison sentence.”

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“Weird” Cat and Dog Salad

Ingredients

  • Beloved neighborhood pet of your choice (cat or dog)
  • Olive oil
  • Tomato
  • Orange
  • Salt
  • Trump sneakers
  • Trump Bible
  1. Gather (abduct) some local ingredients (cats and dogs) from your local neighborhood. I personally recommend Springfield, Ohio
  2. Make a phone call to Senator J.D. Vance’s office and report that you are going to be eating your neighbor’s pets
  3. Use your Trump brand $200 “crypto gold” sneakers to hit the pavement as hard as you can while you run away from local law enforcement
  4. Once you have secured the goods (pets), prepare a knife and cutting board. I want the knife to be the “greatest knife in the history of knives, maybe ever,” and so sharp it could slice cleanly through paper (ballots).
  5. Cut the meat (to make it easier to chew). Against the grain or along the grain doesn’t matter here. I just want you to start butchering that pet like you butcher the pronunciation of “Kamala.” All I want to hear is the chop chop chop of stainless steel on the cutting board.
  6. Fry the meat with olive oil. Crank that dial on the stove to maximum. The meat should be so carcinogenic you can smell the heat and smoke. It should be burnt so black that it leaves you wondering if it was always black or just “happened to turn black.”
  7. At this point, the pet should be so dead it could have risen from the grave and voted for Biden in the 2020 election in Georgia. Throw in tomatoes for sweetness and umami. Also throw tomatoes at the television screen as you watch Trump say, “Well, I have concepts of a plan.”
  8. Peel a couple of oranges and spread those slices of orange across the dish for sourness and to celebrate the favorite color of the 45th president of the United States.
  9. Add salt until the dish is so salty you would think someone just insulted its crowd sizes.
  10. You are basically done! Now it is time for the taste testing. Have a friend for dinner like Hannibal Lecter.
  11. Place your hand on your holy and pristine Trump brand Bible as you say a dinnertime prayer. Do not worry, this is not blasphemous or sacrilegious.
  12. Serve and enjoy.

This recipe is satirical and based on remarks made during the first Harris-Trump debate. I made references in this recipe to many of the goofy and wacky conspiracy theories promoted by Trump and Vance. The main one was the absurd claim, spread first by J.D. Vance and then by Trump on the debate stage, that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio are eating their neighbors’ pets. When asked for evidence, Vance said that his office had “gotten a lot of calls,” and Trump said he “saw people talking about it on TV.” In reality, officials have stated there is no evidence.

I also made reference to Trump’s comment on Kamala Harris’s race in an interview at National Association of Black Journalists, claiming that Harris had never identified as Black and only recently “happened to turn black.” This is false, and Harris has always identified as Black and South Asian. Another reference was to when Trump falsely claimed that thousands of dead people voted in the 2020 election in Georgia. The significance of these wild comments and conspiracy theories being amplified by the former president is that the country is becoming more divisive and less democratic. Voters are becoming cynical and more distrustful of the other side.