Generally agree but they are laying the path to enshitification. You see you can get turn by turn directions on the HUD, but only through their app where they want you to pay $10/mo for the privilege. Same for inputting addresses into their crappy nav system.
So I only use Google maps with Android Auto now, but cannot put the turn by turn display on. Also, who knows what telemetry Mazda is sending home on me without me knowing or wanting them to. Probably selling it to data brokers.
I believe I've heard the newer Mazda 3s have added the navigation into the HUD for Android Auto and Carplay. It's not in my 2020 though which is annoying.
As for selling your data, yes absolutely. It goes to Connected Analytic Services which is an affiliate company of Toyota Insurance. Toyota Insurance Management Solutions (TIMS) is another name to look up. Subaru sells your data to them as well.
Pull down designs via Framelink, optionally enrich with PNG exports of nodes added as image uploads to the prompt, write out the components, test/verify via Playwright MCP.
Gemini has a 1M context size now, so this applies to large mature codebases as well as greenfield. The key thing here is the coding agent being really clever about maintaining its' context; you don't need to fit an entire codebase into a single prompt in the same way that you don't need to fit the entire codebase into your head to make a change, you just need enough context on the structure and form to maintain the correct patterns.
>The designs itself are still done by humans, I presume?
Indeed, in fact design has become the bottleneck now. Figma has really dropped the ball here WRT building out AI assisted (not driven) tooling for designers.
When you're young and not tied down, and also likely lack much money, you prioritize a different lifestyle and are also in college to, presumably, accomplish your goal of getting a degree and learning something.
For many, once they get older and desire a slower, calmer, quieter life, and especially if you want more space with kids, the suburbs start holding more appeal. And that also factors in constraints about job availability.
Suburbs don't need to be car-dependent. The suburban appeal in fact has nothing to do with cars.
In Germany as just one example, there was (when I lived there) excellent, reliable bus service in and between suburbs. And connecting the suburbs to light rail, which connected to the city center.
The big complaint I had in my 20s was that the light rail stopped running before midnight.
Probably true, but unless you have infinite money, building enough housing with expensive rail infrastructure is pretty tough. We can only manage truly world-class(ish) transit in (parts of) one city, NYC, and plenty of people still routinely choose to move out of Manhattan upon having kids instead of staying, either because they can't afford enough space to reasonably make a go of it, or because it's so much easier to do the car-dependent suburb. So, the people themselves are choosing it. Whatever anyone thinks of it, there is plenty of evidence that a lot of people who have a choice choose something other than the urban walkable deal.
PS: Don't come at me please, I loved living in a big urban city, but moved out because I refused to choose only one of: big enough home, safe neighborhood, decent schools, reasonable commute distance. And honestly to stay in the urban core where I used to live, only "commute distance" was even available.
Rail infrastructure is actually cheaper than car infrastructure, though, on a passenger-mile basis. However, the car infrastructure is paid for by the government, and rail is not.
Most cities and towns were built hundreds of years before most cities and towns in America were, so they're dense (because people needed to walk everywhere), which is perfect for rail.
Take a look at a satellite view of the suburban areas where most Americans actually live. They're mostly post-1950 and were built with basically the opposite assumptions as Europe:
1. Homes spaced generously with residential districts stretching out tens of miles in every direction from the dense-ish core.
2. Homes fully isolated from business districts (i.e. anywhere anyone would want to go)
3. High-speed arterial stroads or, in tonier suburbs, basically expressways, which serve as the connection between neighborhoods.
4. Offices and other workplaces dispersed into strip malls, long stroads, and industrial parks throughout an area, rather than concentrated in a primary central business district.
Turning all that into a cool Dutch city or town where people are going to bike or take trains everywhere pretty much requires bulldozing and starting again. Again I say this with no judgment, I think 'Not Just Bikes,' for instance, makes a perfectly good case that our way is lame and the Dutch are doing great. But realistically I would never hold my breath expecting the US to transform even 1/10 of the way to the Europe style of transport.
So the 'young and not tied down' that are fortunate enough to go to college get to experience a more suitable environment while it suits them, but the less fortunate young people that don't get the opportunity to live in a college town get no such consideration I guess.
A restaurant near me has a framed monitor that displays some animated art with a scene of a cafe on a street corner. I looked closely and realized it was AI. Chairs were melted together, text was gibberish, trees were not branching properly etc.
If a local restaurant is using this stuff we're near an inflection point of adoption.
One thing I’ve seen is large enterprises extracting money from consumers by putting administrative burden on them.
For example, you can see this in health insurance reimbursements and wireless carriers plan changes. (ie, Verizon’s shift from Do More, etc to what they have now)
Companies basically set up circumstances where consumers lose small amounts of money on a recurring basis or sporadically enough that the people will just pay the money rather than a maze of calls, website navigation and time suck to recover funds due to them or that shouldn’t have been taken in the first place.
I’m hopeful well commoditized AI will give consumers a fighting chance at this and other types of disenfranchisement that seems to be increasingly normalized by companies that have consultants that do nothing but optimize for their own financial position.
"Legal" requires judges that will view the case in a certain way and often needs the force of a government agency to back it. This administration has gutted both those things. Expect it to get worse, not better.
So I only use Google maps with Android Auto now, but cannot put the turn by turn display on. Also, who knows what telemetry Mazda is sending home on me without me knowing or wanting them to. Probably selling it to data brokers.