It’ll be interesting when they get desperately obsessive about their 40% drop in revenue.

You know, after Greed fires the human workforce responsible for fueling a revenue stream far too dependent on the discretionary spending no one has in a recession caused by CEO sociopaths.

AI will be about reducing headcount. No one will be promising anything about saving money. Especially the executives writing executive bonus policies.

Sounds more like LLMs need to prove themselves as an actual valid tool first.

You got any fantastically successful examples of people using the ToddlerAI or ChildLLM tool in a professional setting that’s working well enough to call for a ban on the new ban? Because those calling for a ban would love to see it.

Not the point. Any good mechanic can learn to switch from Fords to Ferraris. Doesn’t mean they should be forced to because someone created a list driven by fashion rather than function.

TIOBE claims to exist so that you can check up on yourself and ensure you’re still fashionably relevant in our world. And yet they’re tracking software literally decades old? In the Top Five? Make it make sense, or make it go away. Pointless, is pointless.

You sure Python isn’t just the new C+ wearing a Rusty old wrapper? Perhaps we should make sure the compiler matches the keycap color scheme too. /s

Imagine the programer who chose to specialize on a language at some point in their education, spent a year or two dedicated to that language to get good enough to hire for full time permanent employment and start carving out a career, only to be told you’re no longer popular enough with the software cool kids to have a career, according to some index that dragged the idiocy of fashion into the compiler of just focusing on programmers picking up the relevant tool and using it correctly.

The TIOBE index will forever be that cheesy ad on the back of CIO magazine that gets CIOs punch-an-MBA drunk on the latest coding fashion by the time they step off the plane. Nothing more. And that kind of decision making should have been left to die with .bomb vaporware and the MBA flavored executives that fell for it. Every time.

Uh, that was kind of my entire point. The sports card example I provided IS being marketed to children now. Directly to children. And their junkie parents with lottery-grade five and six-figure potential payouts if the stars align as Insta-tok advertises those cardboard dragon payouts as 'easy'. Makes Las Vegas marketing look like Mormons marching for manure costs.

And sadly, all you need is a parents approved signature on any debit/line of credit card and damn near any age kid can abuse one today. And plenty of parents do give their children a card, to simply avoid the "annoyance" of their kids bugging them for all those 'micro' transactions that shockingly add up to a $100/month spending habit, addicted to fucking Fortnite skins by the time they're 12 years old, voraciously spending under the innocent guise of "V-Bucks" being spent instead of dollars that would have normally paid the water bill.

Capitalism, grooms them early.

Giving children a solid gambling addiction by age 16 via the sports card industry pimping "1 of 1" golden tickets to parents spending the mortgage chasing a cardboard dragon, with that effort only being financially worth it with the drunken gamble of spending hundreds of dollars to submit it for professional grading in which only a dice roll of a perfect PSA10 will avoid bankruptcy in a viral market begging for a recession that has fucking ruined card collecting.

Credit cards, weren't being marketed and sold to children before. BIG difference. This makes candy cigarette imprinting look like a fart in church by comparison.

Believe the "influencer"?

Oh yeah. I'm always worried about the impact on my axe throwing plans when I'm considering an anti-inflammatory to take after a skydive.

A North Korean soap opera about who won World War 3, has more authenticity.

Even the best critical thinking skills are still ignorantly human. As AI marketing advances, you won't even know the bot on the other end scamming you, isn't real. Even when you're looking right at it.

30 years from now you won't be able to tell when it's walking right at you.

The real dipshits in society, are the ones who assume otherwise. PT Barnum would have been the first multi-trillionaire today.

Yes. And I said and delineated as such:

The one trying to carry their emotional support iguana into the testing facility claiming permanent victim status on behalf of the suffering their Great-Great-Great-Great ancestors surely had sometime in the somehow-relevant and fully blame-worthy 19th Century that naturally affects testing anxiety today bad enough that they have also two 15-minute cry closet breaks approved by the positive wellness counselor, is more the self-diagnosed I was referring to.

Tested and verified would be where we start with fine tuning. Yours would be a respected and recognized definition of disability. There is a considerable difference between a trained service dog, and an “emotional support animal”. Starts with who actually qualifies for the former.

If people would like to get their “disability” tested and verified with more than an echo chamber and paid for personally, then the results will speak for who should be recognized vs. who should be questioned instead of coddled.

A society does not grow well or benefit from the problem of grown-ass children. If policy feeds that problem, question the policy. Not the child defending it.

These fines turn into the cost of doing business if you’re allowed to simply pay those instead of any actual punishment. Forever.

The questionable definition of “disabled” today, reflects considerable coddling that likely isn’t justified for many given the hockey-stick shaped statistical chart tracking that. That is already a handicap for them in adulthood. Perhaps we not coddle them further and assume “slow and easy” is a speed their boss won’t use to replace them. Quickly.

Reality comes fast and hard the minute you step off that graduation stage. Are we helping or hurting with more college tolerance? What should have been left behind in high school? Anything at all? America moves at the speed of greed.

Timed tests have been around for a very long time. If they were that crippling, why would it have not have shown itself in society, long ago? And in the test results?

If the kids are looking for the real surprise, it’s at the bottom of the box.

When “disabled” college students graduate and find out what “word” got added to the default rejection filter at LinkedIn.

Then they’ll find out the value of honesty and integrity.

Not competing? Citizens campaigning to run entire countries had to compete against what society turned a blind eye to. And lost.

America ended up with a DEI administration comprised of a man suffering from dementia (an actual disability) that was normalized and dismissed while labeling critics liars, and a wholly incompetent VP suffering from sobriety and word salad mouth that was normalized with random cackles, while labeling critics sexist.

Yeah. I’d say Average Joe is gonna be competing in the United States of Coddled.

Downmod the truth all you want. Doesn’t change it.