There's a truth problem, as in truth in advertising and avoiding fraudulent bait-and-switch problems. Such alterations make people doubt everything, and while suspicion and skepticism is a good thing, it shouldn't come as the result of constant misleading marketing.

Gone is the era of consumer protection from public policy; this might add it back.

If you read my post, you'll see that we agree. The attempt at labor cost reduction makes agentic AI into some sort of being, which it is not. Using the context of being is an attempt to incorporate AGI, which is plainly evil.

Make them pay taxes, and you further the incorporation, and the damage that act does.

The taxation has to be of people. There is plenty of imbalance that needs correction in the tech sector. The wealth at the top needs a healthy slice to run the nexus of what government should do towards humanity, not the Libertarian version of this.

AI Agents are not people. They are not soylent. They have no rights. They are not real, they are machines and silicon goo. Make no mistakes about this.

Their works are not copyrightable, and if they are used as tools for humans to steal, then those humans are thieves.

If they spew advice that is bad, then the authors of the software that spew bad advice are liable.

Never conflate humanity with machinery, the two are completely different, and this is obvious, and lies that try to make the differences subtle, are propaganda marketing deceptions.

Instead of directly addressing the backlash, he glosses it. Doesn't give tangible, palpable answers to the deserved anxiety the public has about both training of networks, their models, the results of those models, or how to increase confidence in AI-- at all.

Doesn't dress down the fools delivering new bad LLM versions each month to keep in the investors eyes.

Doesn't talk about the rejection of datacenter resources in so many areas.

Doesn't talk about how to keep useful evolution from drowning in its own noise.

Like the Wizard of Oz, don't look behind the curtain, please.

It's nice he's eating his own dog food.

I hope it's not poison.

They invent solutions to problems no one has, but with enough marketing, you might believe them. Each Microsoft product launch seeks to trade on monopolization and barrier creation, rather than addressing real-world, real-workplace problems.

Teams is an emblematic example of copycat mildly-interactive collaborative apps that seem to work with each other. They answer rival applications by doing *just enough* to mimic rival functionality.

Adding agents will only add a layer of complexity, and lack of suitable cohesiveness and audit. But Microsoft will dump it in to the OS, like the harrowing Co-Pilot additions that are uniformly unloved. There is no advantage, only lock-in for proprietary methods looking for a problem.

The lofty and generous allocations of yore have been mangled beyond recognition. It's all politics but mostly money that rules the IPv4 scene these days. Were it a perfect world, unused space not found in TLD reference would be auto-reallocated as needed. Not gonna happen.

So we are stuck with the current reality, no vision, just exception handling for the next 10-20 years.

Public policy is absent. Already faux and mutant IP-like network tunnels are developing to thwart political and extortion hacking. Look for these to become the next mushrooming problem. On the outside, they appear normal, but inside, there are swathes of proprietary munging going on. It's embryonic today and a nightmare tomorrow.

And, despite virtues, what happens?

Why did AT&T get such a massive Class A block?

Even ham radio got the full 44.

Then, even more virtuously, IPv6 was invented with no mandates to be interactively compliant, no testing rigor, NADA.

It's indefensible. The IETF isn't a deity. It takes more to make a massive change after the fact, and look at the statistics, the implementations, the emphasis you cite in education. This is failure, on a broad and stupid scale. I wish it weren't so. But these are facts.

Astonishingly huge swaths are given away of the IPv6 address space. This doesn't count possible exponentiation to numbers that approach infinity, never get there, but are mind-boggling nonetheless.

The debacle renders clusterfuck-grade madness. We should expect better than this.

I understand the standards fully.

It's the implementations and supporting components, from old router, recalcitrant ISPs, end point walled gardens across the planet, and much other gear that may, or not, do one thing (perhaps correctly) and many bad things more commonly.

Citing standards is fine, it's the implementations that are diffuse, incorrectly installed, with ignorance and even malice towards IPv6 for sins it didn't commit-- just the results when connections don't work, or DNS is incorrectly implemented, or worse, poorly thought-through settings are chosen. Is it a bad rap? Yes.

That's the reality I find. No matter the standards, BS implementation thwarts IPv6 today, across the planet.

The address shortage also amounted to CIDR hoarding. The original allocations gave away huge swaths of space-- which in turn, were poorly implemented until suddenly, they were "gold". Some receiving early allocations auctioned them off to others, who in turn, parlayed them into more gold (or negotiating gold) along the way.

It's my belief that the IETF could've done this differently, and ARIN along with it. Vendors only haltingly implemented IPv6, and the worst problem came with endpoints and endpoint gear makers. Did they lead the way? No. Did they browbeat endpoint makers? No. Did they help find test suites to vet implementations? No. Did they fail? No, but it's not unlike the joke about how many plumbers does it take to change a light bulb? The answer: Wrong Union.

And just like daily auto traffic, you have to watch out for the other guy, who didn't signal and is talking on his phone.

The problem is: There is no standard way, just a bunch of them, because of the many mutant implementations.

This isn't horseshit, this is the reality of what network engineers have to deal with, not to mention the civilians who are just trying to learn enough to get by. Then they discover that the address space covers most atoms in the known universe, perhaps more.

Inside various operating systems, there are largely standard, and then sometimes, um, variations on how to pipe into IPv4 walled networks from varying compute spaces.

While I stand by the fact that IPv6 networks work as advertised, the day to day reality is that it is indeed, a clusterfuck of adoption problems. It solved a problem that didn't exist at the time, despite much hype to the contrary. Worse, it could've been better but because people were burned, there is a dual-system, and any possible improvements will cause moans of the like you have rarely heard in computing because everyone will point to the CF as evidence of adoption problems.

And tech titans don't need to go to conferences, except to keynote at their own vanity-bro love fests held in achingly expensive venues.

The sheer volume of rah-rah overcomes any sanity, and the "business partners" all tote the company line. They remind me of political conventions, except the food might be better.

Except when concerns about pedophilia trump Trump. Outrage at pedophilia strikes deep into the heart of many odd communities. It's also used as a false rubric against gay men, and others.

It's also stunning to note the age of consent and marriage across the US, and ye gawds, across the world. Female outrage votes.

A real coder uses Occam's Razor to shave. No cream needed.

The government in control of the USA may meet your description, and the people of the USA do not. Free Speech is at the heart of what we do.

Our credibility is mightily worn. The government pushes every edge, every value held dear. Much of the populace is relying on the rule of law, itself heavily damaged, to mitigate the ensuing problems.

There's little use in telling the world to hang in there. My personal hopes of a regime that heals instead of constantly wounding, still holds. I am ever hopeful of the goodness of people. The Asleep, rather than The Woke, have made a mess of things. A healer will come; I truly believe this. Vote.

OK, I'll grant you a race to the bottom, with tax dollar financing. SpaceX has a better success rate, and also with the incumbent dangers of sole-source cartage.