Anecdote to back this up, we have annual round of employee directed projects where people propose something they will do that no one asked for in hopes that they do something unexpected that's worthwhile. Generally it's a waste of time business wise, but at least people get to work on something they actually believe in.

Anyway, usually they at least usually manage to create a somewhat working demo of their concept, but this year most of them failed to do so, because most of the pitches were people that didn't know how to do the work, but GenAI was able to generate pitch material that convinced executives to approve them and largely drowned out the people with actionable proposals. So most of the final presentations were people just repeating their pitch and hoping people didn't notice they had no new material since their pitch a few months back.

Why Auto-update is a trap.

If you have WP plugins from teams you can rely on that have a professional software pipeline serving the updates, then auto-update really isn't a problem. The key point here being of course "professional software pipeline". The broader WP community and it's huge 3rd-party market is a crazy bunch delivering the most ghetto-type sh*t in code under the sun. Quite a few of these guys shouldn't be let near a keyboard, that's for sure.

Likewise, if you've bloated your WP setup with 15+ plugins, half of which are in maintenance delay or offered up by the aforementioned ghetto faction of "developers" (emphasis on the quotes), you shouldn't be running that setup at all, either with or without auto-update.

The key problem is that WP these days is basically not a CMS but an platform and millions of users use it as a playground for their web-projects while barely knowing what they are doing. That's a huge upside since it does enable total n00bs and ords to dive deep into FOSS and FOSS-driven user empowerment - by and large actually a good thing - but with the downside being that most WP setups quickly get bloated beyond repair and eventually fail the most basic of security and stability standards.

As someone who has done a decade of WP development and using it as a key platform I don't really mind if this sort of thing keeps me in a job with things to do. What is frustrating is that you constantly have to convene with deciders would can't tell the difference between a client and a server.

A well implemented and managed WP-centric pipeline with disaster recovery in place however is a god-send when it comes to rapid development and pivoting some web-project on a dime within half an hour because some agency type person can't make up their mind about what they want. Truth be told, for most end-customer web projects time-to-market with WP is unbeatable.

Quite frankly a huge amount of skepticism is absolutely warranted. The AI tech companies are broadly worrisome, but Palantir takes the cake for outright villainous efforts.

To the extent they have shown ambition for a future, they haven't shown they have a whiff of folk's best interests at heart.

Nope...

Note the intent to "retrain" labor.

The AI dividend in their scenarios wawould be a trivial gimmick. They still want the labor force toiling, but a dividend to mollify concerns about AI displacement.

If this happened, I would bet maybe 100 or 200 dollars a month of "dividend". You'd still be expect to toil away under the capitalist rules to actually have a credible living.

In terms of what to change to doing, some of these folks already said that people need to return to manual labor. They really hope AI will work as a strategy to make educational an impractical choice and people just kind of stay uneducated and desperate to provide manual labor for sustenance.

This is a path for them to patch what they see as a problem in capitalism: some modicum of class mobility. Other than that possibility, capitalism works great for them. For communism as a core principle, then they need to go full authoritarian, and the power struggle among them to get there is a more dangerous one than a modified capitalism.

Do elaborate?

I wasn't "taught" it by anybody, just like you were never "taught" how to spell. But slavery exists in modern-day Western society, just as human trafficking still exists.

Nah, I'm pretty sure this one's a robot. But it's a robot that's purpose-built to run a half-marathon. Huh? What's the utility of that? And somebody's going to have to convince me that it's not remote controlled.

Put it to you this way: You know what else can beat a human in a marathon? A car.

Uh-huh.

Even supposing you are right (which you are not), it's not much of a badge of honor to end something you started.

Pretty much sums it up.

Ok, but how does it work in the scenario where it pushed another package into the street and then the package gets hit by a car? A package that may have nothing to do with Amazon aside from it being pushed into the street.

Also, from my experience with this, it's true that 90% of the time they are pretty agreeable, but coincidentally the 10% of the time where they are skeptical just happens to be the more expensive stuff.

I just don't order expensive stuff from amazon. Actually, Amazon is only if I can't get it anywhere else reasonable nowadays.

Perhaps, but PCoIP was a specialized protocol aimed mostly at niche markets. Graphics production for Hollywood movies was one, where leaks of pre-released materials could sink the whole project. With PCoIP, you can distribute your graphics work across multiple independent studios, and none of them actually keeps any of the assets on their own machines. They're essentially doing their high-res graphics work on thin clients.

Another market was testing for higher education, for similar security reasons. People try to cheat on tests all kinds of ways.

Teradici always kind of struggled to market PCoIP, though, because their primary "product" was really just a protocol. Their model was to license it to other companies, who then used it to build bespoke solutions for clients. There was a bunch of intellectual property behind it, but not everybody could see the value. They even considered open-sourcing it, but I don't think they were ever serious enough to get someone to consult them on how they could do that and still preserve the licensing revenue.

(Full disclosure: I spent about a year helping Teradici with PR.)

... instalbase compromised! We're all gonna die!

My HDD on my laptop with VGA grayscale had 40MB, the Zip disk 100 MB. It was basically a permanent extension of my early 90 DOS setup. I could even run it off my Highscreen Handheld pocket PC. The cable was pretty thick, but you could do it. Awesome. It never failed me and I eventually decommissioned it and moved all my zip disks to one CD. 8-)

Of course, problem is the lack of availability of similar data for successful companies.

To the extent it *might* work, that's all the stronger case to keep your successful company's information confidential, to avoid helping future competition be a broadly more capable company.

So we are still stuck at training your model to be a crappy business.