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.”