"We spent so much money on this AI crap that while other companies are realizing they need more people to deal with the slop, we don't have any money left and we're completely boned, so we're raising our prices on salesforce."

Android phones don't exist. I guess next you're going to tell me that Alabama actually exists.

Iphone is the only phone.

Around the time they bought EMC to buy Documentum. It was a resounding failure. They tried again a few years later, and also had the same level of failure. This time, well, don't really care now that they made the partner program worthless. Fuck'em. We're selling HPe now.

Was the mainframe. And when the computer was down, your business was down. But computers were expensive, and not every business needed a full computer, so the time sharing companies became a thing, and when their computer was down, your business was down. Everyone had a bad time, so as soon as personal computers became a thing, they became a thing. And the internet happened, and they forget the lessons of the old days and then reinvented it a piece at a time. So we now have the time sharing services that break all the time and take your business down with it.

I think the lesson is to just don't computer.

But an AI agent?

If it dies because a disk failed and you didn't think to use a RAID setup, do you get charged with negligent homicide?

And a lathe. And a PDP-11. No regrets.

Yes, or ask again in three days?

They come and go. At some point everyone is laughing at you for choosing the wrong CSS framework. At some point your favorite CSS framework has to be replaced. Granted, your framework is still fine. You will be able to do amazing things if you're still using Blueprint of 960.gs. And while I rag on Tailwind as being Font Tags 2.0, that at least let web designers create pages don't look like that framework where every site using it looks the same.

I know a lot of people don't like Bose for the price-versus-sound thing, but this is how you EoL something cloudy that doesn't really need cloud connectivity to function most of the time.

See... for that to actually work for you... you already need to be an expert... otherwise you're going to vibecode yourself into a national security incident.

Let me guess, you said something like "Farty farty look I'm years old?"

but they gained some valuable marketing insights in their pants.

I don't think they'll notice. The books are effectively machine generated anyways.

HPe is servers, networking, enterprise software that manages the servers or the network, and the like.

HP without-the-e is the printers, desktops, calculators, printer ink, and related business practices involving breaking kneecaps for using unapproved ink cartridges.

With that in mind, this is the bad HP.