Thanks for making my point for me there bro

I'm going to go ahead and assume bad faith on your part, because otherwise you're very stupid. But nobody in your potential audience is stupid enough to believe there aren't lasting effects to being bombed to shit.

I take your point about this being before the dawn of ubiquitous tech companies, but what kind of chilling effect did the Bell monopoly have?

Do you think about me when you're jerking off, too? I know you do.

It would take an AI to not get bored trying to construct working configs for SElinux

Perhaps you did not buy a Tesla. They are probably the most service-hostile vehicle ever sold in the US. Not sure about the UK, I haven't heard stories (horror or otherwise) about service for Chinese EVs yet. They would have to try really hard to be worse than Tesla, though.

This is actually a legitimate solution to some classes of problems - you have an overseer AI for your natural language interface that delegates tasks to subordinate AIs using LLMs tuned for specific tasks.

It's worse than authoritative - it's kissing your ass.

You: "Hey, AI, I think the world is flat and rests on the back of an infinite stack of turtles"

AI: "That's a great, here's how that works: [blather]"

People love having their ass kissed. If you don't have control over your ego, you're going to accept AI hallucinations more readily.

When I read "Brain fry" I started wondering if zombies preferred their brains raw or cooked.

"Brain fry" makes it sound like the workers are failing, but it's not them. There are ways AI can augment your job - I use it as a quick way to search and compile relevant results into something I can use, and occasionally to produce simple snippets of code.

If you're a low-skill coder trying to be an expert because you have AI to 'help', then your manager did an awful job of understanding both AI's capabilities and yours. If you're a high-skill coder and your manager expects 10x the output from you after firing all your supporting coders to be replaced with AI... same deal.

On the other hand, if you're an occasional low/mid skill guy usually working solo like me, AI will make your life a lot easier once you learn to spot the hallucinations.

Google xkcd extrapolate

s/best/only/

No, I remember owning a calculator watch with phone directory because I could never remember phone numbers, outside of a few I used all the time. Then I got a cellphone and now I don't need to wear a watch.

Simp harder

If you want the epoch of the "Clay Age" I suppose it would be about 2900-3100 BCE, in the Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia. They started writing in cuneiform script on wet clay tablets that dried and became a hard record.