Just kidding, please don't kill me!

Somebody predicting an AI product category is FUBAR instead of wonderful magic productivity?

It was good up to the point they forgot how to pool-chalk their unicorns.

While it might be true they fired a bunch of help-desk people and replaced them with AI, that's not the same as being any good.

It's possibly a case of being technically right but practically wrong.

For example, you could replace staff with monkeys who you pay peanuts and claim you saved lots of money. Yes you did, but customers are now talking to monkeys. It's banana logic.

unwanted feature...that permit microsoft to steal photos of your children for "training purposes".

Isn't that how EpsteinGPT was invented?

The Trump administration is not much into science and exploration, they want "glory missions" with US astronauts dancing YMCA on other planets.

Thus, they are cutting unmanned probes, especially anything to do with climate research. Those climate scientists are all "bribed woke riggers".

Open source is self-reliance. If other nations do something goofy, you just fork and wave goodbye to them.

Greenpeace never said "don't mine", only "don't mine dumbly". Maybe China does it dumbly because dictators don't care much if they sicken their population, and boot out Greenpeace.

Why not use Libre Office formats if they want to avoid MS?

Modern software is built on towers of abstractions, each one making development "easier" while adding overhead: Today's real chain: React > Electron > Chromium > Docker > Kubernetes > VM > managed DB > API gateways.

It doesn't make it easier, it's to force DOM to act like a real GUI at gunpoint. DOM is the wrong tool for the GUI job, time for a new state-friendly GUI markup standard.

Apps that devs used to make in 3 weeks in VB, Delphi, Paradox, or Oracle Forms now take 7 months and be 5x the code. Development has become an e-bureaucracy. Many of these older apps still work, still doing their job; they are only being replaced because devs who know the tooling are retiring, NOT because they are "bad". Esthetically ugly, perhaps, but for internal apps that's not important except for the gullible.

And I'm not saying go back to desktop installs, there are ways to have network-friendly apps now.

The industry is simply focked up by bad standards.

And I'm not saying the listed tools are great, they were first generation of GUI IDE's, but we can build on what worked but toss the shit that gets in the way, as is often found in DOM.

* Okay, keep the DOM, but not for GUI/CRUD usage.

CFO's often simply weigh the short-term ahead of the long-term, and engineering quality is very leveraged on unwise shortcuts. One can over-milk the cow early, but that makes for a sick cow later.

The CFO's perhaps plan to retire or move on to a different company beyond say 4 years. Or they want their beemer now so they can get laid now because they are thinking with the wrong head.

"The future is somebody else's problem."

NASA tried a lower-budget approach in the 90's, but the failure rate was considered embarrassingly high. Off-the-shelf parts were used more often, and testing made less rigorous, for example.

While perhaps the total science could be about the same via sending a higher volume of probes, it was generally decided a relatively high failure rate hurt national pride, and thus expensive quality assurance techniques were reinstated. Very few defenders of the cheap approach could be found in Congress after the problems arose.

DonDOGE may be reinventing this lesson.

Marketing, spamming, and scamming are big biz. Jerky companies are still part of the economy.

Amen! They should let underlings rate bosses also. While it shouldn't be the main criteria for management evaluations, it should be a consideration.

always happens.