I do not see much difference. And landmines are far more deadly than drones, smaller and easier to deploy. I advise watching fewer stupid action movies.

You are arguing from faulty data. And, apparently, you have no real clue about software project complexity, cost and time needed.

In actual reality, the LLM scammers are just getting a bit desperate as it becomes harder and harder to ignore that their products can do nice stunts, but are not that useful in regular work. Not useless, but not nearly useful enough to justify the extreme costs.

Hence stories like this one, that will only make sense to the stupid. To be fair, there are a lot of stupid people. Also the reason that Space-X markets their IPO primarily to "private" (a.k.a. "clueless") investors. The institutional ones will stay far away, and several ones have even announced that publicly. They usually do not do that. The red flags for an "investment" do not get any more red or any larger.

OSX is based on FreeBSD. They did not do a reimplementation, they just added the easy parts. And basing things on FreeBSD is also the thing that allows Apple to switch CPU architecture. Because they get that almost for free. And that is why they could do it so fast. Sure, theoretically MS could do the same, but they are not organizationally capable of even thinking that they may have screwed up enough to make that step the only way out.

Also refer to countless large-scale software projects that have failed or are in a bad state but cannot be fixed.

The main difference is that these things move. That adds to the level of danger, but not to the immorality. Landmines have done the autonomous killing for about 800 years now, apparently.

That may well not be true. At a certain level of complexity, fixing anything means a redesign and reimplementation because anything else has exceeded the complexity that can be handled. That is the core reason why you want to keep technological debt as low as possible. Otherwise, at some point, you can just throw things away and start over. Microsoft has likely reached that point quite a while ago. Sure, if they could stop all development for, say, 10 years, and if they fire everybody responsible for the current mess and get actually competent people as replacements, then maybe. But even then, it may fail. And their business would probably have stopped existing after that time anyways. Remember they do not compete on merit, but on "flashiness" and grand claims.

No argument as to why they are in this mess and that it is self-inflicted. And by stupid customers, obviously, that bought the worst product they could because it was cheap...

While they phone home? That does not help much for security. And it does nothing for all the other problems.

I am wondering whether you just cannot admit being wrong or whether you are simply an idiot. Well, why not both?

Obviously. But here is the thing: Gas-stations use the same approach. And you can install your own EV charger, while doing your own gas station is rather problematic.

Not a problem. Most people are not smart enough to make the connection. And the tech is solid.

History leaves dumb people like you behind.

Europe does not have the same weak, cheap ass grid the US has.

That ship has sailed a few decades ago.

Indeed. But from all the deranged comments below, you can deduce that a ton of people are so deep in AI psychosis now that they have lost all contact to reality. Hence they cannot even understand something as clear and simple as this ruling, they have lost the mental capability for that.

I will cancel the orders as I have no agents running. And then I will cancel VISA. Fortunately, we currently get more options in Europe.