> as someone in tech talking to others in tech I'm constantly surprised how optimistic people are Me too. I can't explain it. Here's one point I try to make (i

> as someone in tech talking to others in tech I'm constantly surprised how optimistic people are Me too. I can't explain it. Here's one point I try to make (in vain): When people imagine such tech, the level of "just-works" is very high, almost sci-fi high. The car would would perform on a super-human level, making near-perfect split-second life-and-death decisions. There's very little room for software/hardware failures. Where do you, as someone in tech, see anything consumer facing that is even close to that level of polishness? It's <current year>, and I still have to restart my Firefox browser every few hours because it gets bloated [0]. We haven't figured out bluetooth yet [1]. Heck, state-of-the-art CAPTCHAs are using street-signs [2]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ak18uz/help_insane_memory_leaks_in_firefox_recently/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ak18uz/help_insane... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19956512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19956512 [2] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/296574/captcha-with-street-signs https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/296574/captcha-with... Of course these are tongue-in-cheek anecdotes, but the points stands, that it seems we just haven't figured out how to make complex code work very well yet.