You could also have it write your tests first from the requirements and use red green tdd as you write.

The companies will react by increasing the goals to make it impossible without AI, especially as the hardware and models improve. They could also shit on the environmental impact reason by showing that the internet and computers alone are bad for the environment and exempt the employee from using those so that they fall behind.

The real answer is decoupling the need to work and survivability and access.

It's being put into anything using pattern recognition. If you use electronic banking or payments such as credit cards, you're definitely using AI. In the electric grid analogy, you don't have to physically interact with the transformers to use it, you only need to flip the light switch it's connected to.

The point was that AI can use playwright and write in C# just fine. Tests was an example of that.

We can achieve purpose without production, but nobody understands what that looks like and they want to hold onto their roles in production until they feel secure about not needing to produce for society to survive.

I'm hopeful that humans won't need to trade their lives to make others rich. AI and Robotics might be a path toward that if the people are the benefactors.

Then your input is wrong. I mainly work in .net c# and playwright and I have agents building my e2e tests in playwright with just test cases and test steps. These are custom agents I built myself that have the guardrails in place for the agent to stay in bounds.

It worked for George W. Bush

It will not be soon. Not with all the money going into Nuclear energy sites to support AI and the rapid growth of China's capabilities. Society is pot committed.

I have a raspberry pi I keep at my mom's house and it's completely managed by me. We live in different states. Would you classify the services on it as self hosted or no? I do not have immediate access to the physical hardware, I am at the mercy of my mom's power and internet. When it's all working I can access my services and data on it. Is she hosting or am I hosting it from her place?

If I rent rack space and install my servers in a data center and have physical access and ownership of the server but not the data center infrastructure. Am I hosting or is the data center hosting?

My point is that "self hosting" seems to have many different forms and there must be some minimal classification that allows inclusion without being overly strict.

For the record I practice all forms with servers at home and elsewhere.

The logic seemed sound to me. If you have to go home to access then you are no longer hosting it if hosting means to serve to the outside. If you are dependent on an ISP or power company to host then an argument can be made that either youre not self hosting or that self hosting allows the inclusion of a third party. If you are giving a pass to include a third party, then having a cloud provider could be seen as a third party to self hosting.

If making the service accessible from the outside is not a consideration for self hosting, then is running a desktop application considered to be self hosting if youre sitting at the computer it's running on?

What's UpDog?

We could have consumer protection laws that mandate when a service that a consumer product relies on is no longer being served by the company, they must release the source code as FOSS for the community to carry it on if they so chose. This could apply to video game servers as well as robot vacuums.