I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.

...and you WILL pay for it!

Oh yeah and this bit at the start "Dear valued customer".

If I recall, one reason for renaming it was that it's more "inclusive" since "America" is the US, Mexico, etc. wouldn't that mean the name used by the US should revert back to "Gulf of Mexico"since renaming it was DEI?

They don't really cater for the most obvious demographic. Yeah, I would not want to carry an extra tech device, but I am already wearing glasses anyway, I'd actually love it if they could do one more useful thing apart from correcting my vision. But they have a quite limited prescription range, if you are hyperopic like me, you are most likely over their +4 limit (especially if you have any astigmatism at all). If you are strong myopic or mid-myopic with some astigmatism you are SOL as well. And it's not really a technical limitation, I pay extra for the high refraction index lenses anyway and they come out thin enough to easily fit frames that are in the Ray Ban Meta style. Not sure if it's a stereotype either, but most of my geek friends who are the most "gadget friendly" people tend to wear strong prescriptions too...

I almost wonder if that's actually a dude who was on the flight or someone taking advantage of an opportunity to get in the news.

Seems so unlikely.

No, AOL switched to drink coasters a LONG time ago.

I expect at least some ads: "You wouldn't train your AI with a CAR".

I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.

Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.

My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.

...that instead of providing compute power to a network that manipulators trade to fleece the masses on I could have used my GPUs to run AI to conjure up algorithms to profit from that same network??

I payfor the premium service models, several of them and many are excellent productivity boosters...BUT

Every so often after sometimes hours of good responses a model would spew some illogical babble quite smoothly like how using a certain scoring method the LLM invented you can achieve 102% score on a test.
If you have some unconscious biased the LLM may just reinforce it with a logical argument in favour that is plain false but you might not know because you're could genuinely not be even aware you're biased. (Unconscious bias)

Any response from any AI tool must be vetted and checked carefully. It is a tool, like any other and if you do not check your measurements and outputs etc you will get misleading and costly results.

The fact the Trump administration does shoddy homework (if any) is hardly surprising.

Once upon a time everyone wanted to vacation in the USA, live in the USA, thought of the country as predominantly a force for good in the world. A country that stood for freedom and democracy.

Now it's more like a 600lbs angry banker that is out to eat everyone else's lunch.

During this time I see some in the US cheer it all on because "fuck you I got mine" and "woke BS is dead"...thunderous applause?

A great development and a success story but we're in a post truth US....so they best keep Trump on side or he'll pull any federal funding/do something terrible because fuck people the disagree with El Presidente. Good luck to us all.

The only logical move is to create a gold MAGA iPhone. Call the iTrumpet. Perhaps this will be a precursor to the deeper and more meaningful ankle grabbing the future has in store for Tim.

...the fact few people want win11??