It really isn't. The best and most employable will be the ones that get another job and jump ship. The deadwood will hang on but will trash morale because they're miserable.

It phones home, even with no subscription, unless you specifically opt out. How many drivers realize that?

I wondered how long. it would take before they did this. Businesses are good to start with because tehy are used to shipping via a carrier, Amazon is just one more carrier to see how much they can save with them vs UPS/FedEX/USPS. Home is harder because the last miles is variable; so you can't set fixed pickup routes and handling pickups takes longer tahn delivering and also need sorting so adding it to the drop-offs would be a challenge. However, a partnership with USPS to handle last mile and Amazon ships makes sense, FedEx and UPS already handle mail so it's not some new idea; Amazon could bid for the contract, and winning deprives competitors of lower margin freight that can be used to cube or weight out a plane. Amazon, meanwhile, gets volume for deadheading planes and trucks.

A quick read of TFA indicates that demand is a factor in cost allocation, so the locations where data sources are located should bear the brunt of the costs, and MD paying for whatever anticipated uses growth they will see.

They're stupid enough to have an AI agent delete their entire production database from the also vibe coded storage service that keeps the "backups" in the backed up volume (so no restore possible), AND has no concept of limiting auth tokens (all tokens are god mode) AND then deciding to continue vibe coding with the very same storage service.

It really is as bad as Bart Simpson repeatedly shocking himself on the electrified cupcake Lisa left out.

They thought instructing the AI to "make no mistakes" would prevent the problem.

But that *IS* a vibe coding problem.

The problem is bypassing the developer or trying to get the developer to not "waste time and effort" dealing with trivialities that "the AI can take care of".

That's right up there with the genius mode instruction "make no mistakes".

IIRC, that was done by one of the companies that had an AI agent delete the database.

I'm sure they're vibe coding as fast as they can!

More likely a “let’s pretend to do something until he’s gone” and “let’s see what of our needs you can handle.” Promises are easy to make to placate Trump and cost nothing.

So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

People also reacted to ELIZA as if she was real, and this was sin the 1960’s, with far less computer power. I think it is more of a human desire to anthropomorphize things and deal with them as if they were human.

Reddit said so

"forty-five-press" not 45-47-press.

I suspect, given the potential size of the user base as well as the potential high value users on the app, "if" should be when.

In addition, given the developer's name 45-47-press, it would not surprise me if it was some Trump owned entity getting government money to develop it. Nothing like channeling some cash to your own pocket.

An interesting aside to that though. Even your description was better than shortly before that when computer was a job title and the whole company depended on rooms full of people clacking away on mechanical adding machines. All of that got replaced at a tiny fraction of the cost.

Yet businesses that ran profitably for decades like that have now cut customer service to the bone, never reduced prices, and employee pay hasn't kept up with inflation for decades but still they cry poor.