Yeah, sure. Keep thinking that.

How about you chill out a bit?

Professionals put up with Windows because, despite its problems, it’s a reasonably stable desktop environment where you have a decent guarantee that your really expensive program - built for Windows 2000/Seven - will still work, whereas the Linux desktop is a total mess when it comes to backward compatibility.

But as you’ve probably noticed, that’s changing... And Windows is now becoming another shitshow, so we’ll end up with two shitshows to choose from unless Linux desktop vendors get their act together and stop fighting among themselves.

My guess is that Microsoft’s new developers only know how to build web pages and “web apps” (web pages that try miserably to pretend they’re desktop applications and fail spectacularly), and the developers who actually knew how the Windows kernel works have either retired or passed away. When the last of these “old-timers” is gone, Windows will probably collapse.

Delusional thinking has always existed. Religion, “god-kings” who believe they have a divine right to rule over everything and everyone, and most recently, narcissists who have decided they are women and want to force everyone to agree with them (It's like the people who think they're Napoleon, but now they want to force you to agree that they really are Napoleon).

I believe the biggest problem with this and “AI” is that many people bought into the hype that “AI would always be right about everything,” and so they think it's true when “AI” confirms their delusions.

The second is paid advertising disguised as journalism. After all, the guys who spent hundreds of billions making "AIs" now need to make everyone believe – no matter the cost – that everyone has to buy their services. Think about it, hundreds of billions of dollars are involved in the biggest scam ever created, of course they're going to try to convince you that everyone needs them.

You're so naive... Or so stupid.

That's a big reason why I don't use that crap in the first place. The developers of these modern Javascript frameworks don't care about backward compatibility. And they aren't even competent enough to get it right on the first try or even on subsequent tries, so they have to constantly rewrite critical parts of their software because they are not able to understand what caused the problems in the first place.

Pretty much this. They started to realize they spent too much on tulips, and now, to keep the money coming in, they have to find a way to force everyone to continue believing that buying tulips is the best deal ever conceived by humankind.

In fact the agents simply copied fragments of C compilers from the internet until they ended up with something that (barely) works. I would consider it noteworthy if they only had the specification of what the compiler would have to do and no ready-made compilers to use as examples.

The problem lies with CEOs and the people around them. Most engineers and developers haven't been fooled, but CEOs are seriously vulnerable to accepting absurd ideas if someone “important” (or who can pass themselves off as important) swears that the idea in question will fill the company with money. Right here in my company, every now and then some director stupidly wants to copy the ideas of the “market” (which nowadays boils down to maximizing value for shareholders even if it DESTROYS the company) and no one can convince him otherwise because “the market said so.” I feel like tearing apart every son of a bitch who says “the market wants this” or “the market wants that” as an excuse for really stupid ideas.

When all this hysteria surrounding “AI” ends and people realize they've been deceived into yet another "tulip craze"... the crash will be ugly, very ugly.

The point is that while he is working, he is physically close to his father. So if any problems arise, he can act immediately.

Now they are appealing to “scientific articles” trying to claim that “AIs” (in quotes because they have nothing to do with actual intelligence) think, reason, and are now similar to what the human brain does. Not only that, but they are also paying a lot of people right here on Slashdot to downvote anyone who goes against the hysteria.

Look at the situation from a South American perspective. China has been proposing trade partnerships in exchange for access to the region's resources. What does the US offer? The US sticks a gun to your head and demands that you only do “business” with them, where the terms of the "agreement" only benefit the US.

Imagine which partner we here in the South will prefer?

Even the orange guy himself admitted that his motivation is venezuelan oil. He will invent the most absurd excuses to attack Venezuela, and he won't stop there. Soon it will be Mexico, Colombia (Argentina has already surrendered for a piece of bone). I wonder what excuse he will invent to invade Brazil, the "terrible" Brazilian jabuticabas?