Thanks for making my point for me there bro

I'm going to go ahead and assume bad faith on your part, because otherwise you're very stupid. But nobody in your potential audience is stupid enough to believe there aren't lasting effects to being bombed to shit.

I take your point about this being before the dawn of ubiquitous tech companies, but what kind of chilling effect did the Bell monopoly have?

Do you think about me when you're jerking off, too? I know you do.

> Unfortunately they chose to change the UI for change's sake

I'm about 90% convinced they introduced the Ribbon for anti-trust reasons. Here's a change in UI that cannot be fully cloned by competitors (they'd have to make their own custom Ribbons with a custom, non Word, layout to avoid falling foul of copyrights), and which hampers users being able to transfer their skills from Word to, say, Wordperfect (or even Word to Excel.)

Look at the timings, with development occurring at a time when Microsoft had just wiggled out of a substantial anti-trust suit that threatened to break it up into application and operating system companies, and released at a time they were being forced to open up their file formats in Europe, and it explains perfectly why they introduced that user-hostile garbage when they did.

They're not. Electron apps are not accessed via a browser. While it's true you can easily port an Electron app to GNU/Linux, that's also true of a .NET app (which, let's be honest, is likely what they're talking about here, I doubt they're going back to C++ for everything.)

The real advantage of Electron is you can use most of the same code and assets for a website as for an Electron application, which is useful, but given how ridiculously inefficient Electron is, that isn't much of a justification for using it. Over the last 15 years, most desktop operating system's UIs have been debased by increasingly inconsistent designs making them harder to use, and a huge amount of that has been designing for some superficial "web" design that doesn't really exist - at least, not in a form that stands still.

My sense of this:

Microsoft is in a panic. Almost everything different between Windows 10 and Windows 11 is disliked, from the centralized logins to the AI-with-everything. On top of this RAM prices are sky high meaning the bloat is rapidly becoming a problem. What they've realized is they have to do a full overhaul of Windows 11. And one of these is to stop using technologies like Electron where they shouldn't be used. They can literally reduce its memory footprint to Windows 7 levels, and make their code more reliable and less dependent on third party libraries and APIs by eliminating a rather absurd example of abstraction-for-abstraction's sake from their development stack.

This might even be good news.

> The point being...AI doesn't tangibly save time. It might save a bit under some circumstances, but not enough to justify layoffs.

Agreed with all of the above, but my even bigger concern with the idea of changing programming to babysitting electronic code writers, and doing the same for other parts of the business, is we're losing knowledge. Actively destroying knowledge indeed.

If luddites were in charge of the world, they could do nothing more effective to their cause than promote AI. AI means nobody understands what the code is doing, and reduces the number of people who know how code can work in general. In a decade it'd only take a few well placed supply chain breakages and we could be looking at anything from a severe recession to the complete collapse of society. I'm not kidding. Businesses being run this way are setting themselves up as places where nobody from the CEO to the janitor has any idea how the business works.

This is so unbelievably fucked up, and even more so when you consider that the advocates of these technologies didn't simply introduce them, iPhone style, to an excited set of consumers, but actively forced it on everyone, trying to go from 0-60 in the space of 2-3 years. Why? Why the hell wouldn't you give it a chance to prove or disprove itself first?

Because, you (Altman et al) know it's not what it's supposed to be perhaps?

It would take an AI to not get bored trying to construct working configs for SElinux

Perhaps you did not buy a Tesla. They are probably the most service-hostile vehicle ever sold in the US. Not sure about the UK, I haven't heard stories (horror or otherwise) about service for Chinese EVs yet. They would have to try really hard to be worse than Tesla, though.

Google xkcd extrapolate

s/best/only/

No, I remember owning a calculator watch with phone directory because I could never remember phone numbers, outside of a few I used all the time. Then I got a cellphone and now I don't need to wear a watch.

Simp harder

With three wheels? No doubt they will, insert clip of Reliant Robins here :D

Two things can be bad at once. And this article is about age verification. Calm down and don't attack your allies.