This industry is starved of common sense.

The standards are weird, and poorly implemented.

Everyone wants to monetize, rather than simply enable astute appliance and home device use.

The haptic interface, where humans use things through a human feel, is great in some places, and entirely nonsensical in others.

No one wants your stupid browser ads, we want functionality. I paid for the fridge, if you show me ads on it, I'm going to toss you.

More features, product managers, are not better. We want long life from our investments in your stuff. People revert to the KISS principle because proprietary features break and cost money-- if the parts can be found by your insane service networks at all.

Your stuff has to work in harmony with our current investments. One maestro works, not a hundred musicians trying to play different music in our homes simultaneously; there are no good or empirical home control UIs that are consistent and thoughtful.

Smart home remains, therefore, an oxymoron unless you buy it from one vendor who doesn't stop supporting their stuff/versions after just three years.

Bottom line: Vendors have done this to themselves, forcing people back to the KISS principle-- keep it simple, stupid-- and stop adding so many features. Easy. But no product manager wants to think like this.

It's new again, just like AI. Read the same post from noon. No one pays attention. Will it appear again tomorrow?

And beaconing can also provide GPS and telemetry. It's easy to battle in space, take out important satellites-- unless you have to take out thousands of them. The numeric advantage in many satellites is that there is no other country coming even close to the number of Musk-launched satellites. In war, more soldiers is an advantage.

No, hacked by Jimmy Smith, age 14, of Colorado, who is interested in shoot-em-up war games with realism. His dad's machine was connected through Comcast to his bot at the local library. /sarcasm

In reality, I hope this is just a pilot. And there are overrides. And it doesn't come with an included shock collar.

Ditto on the nonsense. Ditto on Philly.

Must be AI generated.

I own, but do not operate, a few IT companies that manage corporations in the $600MM-$1B receivables range.

Based on our own help desk ticket software, our clients have opened 40% fewer tickets since ChatGPT was rolled out to every desk and phone. 40%. I expect another 40% drop (total 80%) by next year as end users just manage things themselves.

I won't downsize as the tickets aren't really generating revenue as much as headaches. One of my engineers had a broken PDF file that took her 6 hours to fix, and the end user spent 6 days trying to fix it themselves with Ai.

But -- the basic stuff? Reboot your computer stuff? Email rejected because you mistyped a domain name stuff?

You don't need a human, and we would probably have outsource that stuff to India anyway next year if not for ChatGPT etc.

I spend quite a bit on Discord server services, but I'm out.

GFY, Discord and governments, for mandating this bullshit nonsense.

Then these sharks won't be able to make the campaign contributions necessary to get complying elected officials re-elected.

Can't have that.

Spank people who can't pay their bills for whatever reason? Childcare, healthcare costs, inflexible employment traps, maybe we change more for those. Usurious alimony? Car financing deals from the seventh level of hell? Hey-- don't touch that stuff!

Alter bankruptcy laws to make them easier? NO WAY!

What we need are more student loans at the drop of a hat, for any degree, no matter how unsalable, how inane, how self-indulgent. /eye-roll

Agreed. This is a race to the bottom. No one should depend on AI, because AI then undoes AI mistakes undoes AI mistakes because there is no harmonization among approaches. This will not end well.

If you're used to finding inaccuracy and accepting that, then you'll do fine, and have no regrets. For the other eight billion of us, we find this both immoral, and still another example of the immunity from liability by the bad advice from AI, itself an oxymoron.

This is the same logic leap that makes people believe that driverless cars are ready to put on the highways.

These are big lies, foisted by trillions of dollars in bad investments, trying to bring halo to trusting people who believe the big lies. Small successes fool people into unearned trust. Marketing is powerful because people are believers. Sadly, only skeptics are rewarded these days.

Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.

Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.

Tax funded?

Not private property anymore.

There is hope. Learn the real basics of software engineering; you'll make do. AI can help you, but the hype goes away in a year or two. You'll need non-vibe, real coding background by then, and people will need you... then.

The ideas foisted in the post are plainly bad ideas, but each of the sponsors is now roped in to making the KoolAid look palatable. Sam Altman, leader of this Jonestown, will retire some place offshore.

Yes, why not react to any jab of their business model, which is to feed drones to the machine?

No doubt they're as mad as wet hens. Journalism does that. Facts and truth to power is the dynamic. The NYT is not immune from influence, but the article citation has factual basis.

Countering capitalism is dangerous stuff.

How does that size, that weight of merch go out the door?

What wall were they using, Silly Putty (pun intended).

WTLF, RH? Have you no shame, no regard for your clientele's asset value? Who's getting sacked? Indicted?

Oh. It was AI.

Carry on.