2 + 2 = 5...for extremely large values of 2!

These are basic social engineering attacks. People have been calling support and asking for access to other people's accounts forever.

The difference is that the bots are coded to be helpful and to take everything at face value -a human might intuitively suspect that they are getting scammed and refuse to go along with the request. You have to explicitly tell a bot about all the possible ways it can be scammed, a human can rely on intuition and experience -and the humans still get scammed sometimes.

Raise the price, then apply the discount so you think you're saving money. Only the final new "sale" price is more than you'd pay elsewhere.

Seems like Amazon is playing the same game they *all* play.

Right! That's what I was wondering too. Is Barcelona somehow less capable of dealing with a possible bomb?

Hey, there's one of those in MY neighborhood too! Clearly, the FBI is *EVERYWHERE*!

Please switch it back, all this direction-changing is making me dizzy!

Absolutely!

For sure. Most companies can't be bothered with actual requirements! They want you to just "make something work."

Yeah well that spaghetti code that was refactored multiple times...I guarantee that guy didn't write documentation either. And even if there *were* documentation, do you think the code would match? Probably not. So we're back to reading code again.

Thankfully, AI is actually helpful in this, it can often trace existing tangled code pretty well.

Yes, I'm stupid, just ask my wife!

Now that we've gotten that out of the way...

My whole point is that strong, formal documentation is usually not needed. Programmers hate doing it because it's generally useless. Nobody reads it, and nobody abides by it when they write new code. There's a reason for this. Writing software is more like art than science. Painters don't write detailed specs describing what they are painting, they make the painting such that it can be perceived and appreciated without such documentation.

Yes, there certainly is a type of software that needs solid documentation. One example is an API. But for a lot of software, "robust" documentation is something pushed by purists, but is rarely actually used in practice.

Who said anything about extracting things from code? My comments were about the user interface, not the code.

Yes, if you look at the arrangement in purely transactional terms, Google is paying Apple more than Apple is paying Google. But in the end, users are still using Google's software. Google wouldn't pay Apple if they didn't fully get their money back in that deal.

I agree on your characterization of Gemini. It's not the best, but it's pretty decent. It certainly beats Apple Intelligence.