If life's a game where you try to get the best score you can, more years gives you more chances to rack up points. Philosophically* there's nothing more important, and therefore nothing has more meaning than this.
* different people can have different philosophies on life
I think the hard thing with this though is that you can ask them to do things you'd never expect of an intern, and they can sometimes be super helpful. For example, I have a synchronous audit log in an app on a table that is just getting way too big and it's causing performance issues on writes. For kicks I tried working through Claude Code to see if it could find the issue on it's own, then with some hinting, and what solutions it would come up with. Some of it's solutions were indeed intern-level suggestions (like make the call async and do a sleep in tons of other areas to avoid race conditions, despite me telling it that the request needed to fail if it couldn't be logged properly), but in other ways it came up with possible solutions that were interesting and I hadn't considered before. In other words, it acted like a Sr engineer at some points with thought partnering, while in other places it acted like an over-eager but underqualified intern.
Exactly. And no one with any sense gives an intern write permission for the production database. I don’t trust myself on the production database when I’m coding anything that involves migrations.
And I don’t suppose there were backups for the mission-critical production database?
Liberal vs conservative is not the binary that you should be looking at here, but rather just vs corrupt. It's okay if a ruling ideologically favors one side or the other, but it's not okay if it the court trends toward "our guy can do whatever he wants".
Meta monetizes content. AI makes it easier and cheaper to create content. If everyone has access to high quality AI, high quality content may be more plentiful and that content can be posted on Meta's platforms, which would make it more money.
Still confused, i show up to "consume content" from people i follow, not from Meta. Sure, occasional trash and spam and ads, and "recommended", and "promoted", but mostly things that people post. If content creators still come to post on say Instagram, which provides distribution and monetization, how does it matter which tools they used? Should Meta then try to acquire say Adobe Photoshop too, to produce better IG content?
Someone at work said something to the effect of "Oh, this would be great for an intern but we don't have one this year" to which I responded "sure you do, its name is Copilot".
If that's the case, imagine if you were trying to buy games back in the SNES days. The cost for many new games was the same or higher in absolute dollars as today, but much higher if you do the calculation to 2025 dollars.
The end user benefits are none of the things you mentioned. Mechanical watches are jewelry. They look nice, and hopefully they remind you of something. For many people it's a connection to something cool. Omega sells a lot of moon watches, and it's not because anyone buying them is going to use the chronograph to time a fuel burn with life or death stakes. You're probably not wearing your Daytona at the race track or using your Longines watch for anything Amelia Earhart or Howard Hughes did. But it's fun to think about how you have a tool with a historical connection - whether that is to history everyone knows, or something more personal to you.
* different people can have different philosophies on life