If I use the hallucinating AI of today to write a fucking legal brief, that only confirms how much faith I should have in the competency of the average human doing that job, the idiot who hired them, and the legal system accepting that. It’s hardly a testament to AI when it’s already been shown that AI can hallucinate about legal cases too.

Pick a better example next time. You already know why.

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If vibe-coding is a “different story”, then don’t pretend that same immature AI idiot now teaching and training the Junior replacement generation is actually a good thing.

An overtaxed Senior has an overtaxed problem. Not an AI solution.

Oh, so we’re playing the I-told-you-so game? OK. How about when AI recommends to fire all the humans this fiscal quarter, because quarterly profits and bonuses, but then finally realizes two fiscal quarters and 80% revenue crash later that those humans were responsible for feeding the revenue stream that fed the kind of profit that..oh I dunno, kept power flowing to the fucking AI power cord?

Good luck running on bullshit there, Skippy McSkipperfarce, AI for hire.

Huh. I wonder if my 50-foot 12/3 extension cord is large enough to carry your assumptions about in-rush amperage during start-up.

I doubt it.

What, you mean like within that single hour on the first day of typing class?

If Gen Beta sits at a keyboard and struggles for more than 10 minutes to grasp the concept of Shift and Enter, then the other 99+ keys are going to cause a mental breakdown.

Hell, they have a Delete key. I can’t imagine them being forced to use White-Out in front of the whole Insta-class and admit they’re human.

Here I am, envisioning John Moses Browning hammering this response out of Hunter S. Thompsons Model FU typewriter at a full-auto rate of 800WPM..

At that level of greed, I’d expect all types of solar panels to become illegal for consumers to use or possess.

You know, because “safety”.

This.

I'm gonna call bullshit on balcony-grade solar powering the average American-sized refrigerator. Last time I tried to power my neighbors with a gas generator it was popping circuits. Damn thing drew eighteeen amps.

Ironically enough, Meta doesn't have to worry as much about laying off their workers and affecting their actual revenue stream, since 99% of them don't actually pay Meta for any service they provide.

The other problem with Too Big To Give A Shit, is companies like Amazon who can still lay off 20% of their customer workforce and still be too large to feel it.

I wonder how history will paint the Magnificent Seven after the market crash they create.

AI lies. It often deludes itself. And that is a fact.

I don't call that "productivity". I call that a high-risk hire equivalent to a 16-year old giving instruction on the jobsite, just old enough to assume they know everything and are right about it.

Ha! How about you ask Apple how much profit they make off repairing Apple laptops first.

That number will likely become your answer.

(They call them car stealerships because of the obscene profit made with service, not sales.)

If someone is intelligent enough to explore Linux AND realize the fact that they're also operating in a Windows environment, then I'm going to assume that person is in fact intelligent and capable enough to operate the OG Windows with a UI designed for fucking toddlers.

Stop pretending the average user is going to do FUCK-ALL with AD other than log into it.

I'm speculating here, but the bad news is they might be vulnerable.

The good news is, at 8GB RAM you're gonna notice after the third browser tab chokes on a pop-up.

When you cannot sell cars without taxpayer-funded incentives (basically offering a “discount” I paid for already), you fucked up.

When you’re forced to follow that up with admitting you would have lost in the long run if you even tried to, you really fucked up.

That last statement was meant to be forgotten, but it only confirms the obvious; Honda cannot and should not try to make an EV knowing it will be at a loss.

No. You won’t mock Honda for that until you can find a maker who can. Without assuming the customer can afford a rolling mortgage.

I'll just stop you right there since you just identified exactly what can be done as a quick fix to this. When they refuse to take away the loot boxes, you will then know exactly how deluded you are about clutching onto definition semantics while the gambling junkie in the corner itching for another spin tweaks and twitches on pure denial.

WHY do you think we don't allow 12 year olds throwing down chips on the tables in Vegas? Is it purely because "mental health", or is there just maybe another massively immature factor here? When we say WE must think of the children, WE refers to the fucking adults in the room. BECAUSE the children DON'T think. That's why we call them children.

And we should start remembering why we do without some excuse-peddler grabbing a dictionary and thesaurus to debate how we accommodate Greeds every marketing desire targeting ages 8 to 80.