To be fair if you’re an ICE goon running headfirst into a wall might be a common activity for you so it seemed like a plausible story to come up with.

Are these people that only you can see telling you to burn everything down again, Satya?

All I know is that I can help them. In fact I’m preparing a package as I type this.

We shouldn’t stop with the kernel but also apply this to our workflows.

PM sends you an invitation to a meeting? Venus says no.

I want cosmic chaos in my work day.

Let’s not forget, it took years for Wikipedia to even notice Neelix, the Wikipedia admin who made over 80,000 pages/links about titties.

He was just out there spreading the word of boobah but yeah this stuff can go under the radar for a while.

The problem lies in noticing them in the first place. If you make a thousand legit edits to various articles and then make some slight changes on some rich clients page chances are nobody will register this. Then again we’re on the internet so there’s always at least one guy who’d hyperfocus on monitoring something like this. The hero we need.

“How much to let me poop on your chest?”

“I’m sorry I don’t so this kind of t-[he pulls out 4 32GB DDR5 RAM sticks] …OKEYDOKEY!”

10 years is not a long time and once the cat is out of the bag it’s rather difficult to get it back in.

It was the same for other manufacturing. You can’t manufacture most commercial items at a competitive price not just because the difference in labor cost but because there’s simply nobody left that is capable of doing it at scale in the US or Europe.

We’re just trying to help those nerds spend less time on their PC, you see? Yes, we produce memory but at our core we’re a grass touching company.

First they came for our neighbors and I didn’t say anything.

Then they came for family members and I didn’t say anything.

Then they took my chicken tendies and I was mad but didn’t say anything.

BUT…when they take my PC I will REEEEEEEEEEE

Think of the savings though. Ikea as a military supplier. Everything is cardboard but it works. 4$ landmines. 19,99$ cardboard roll mortar? Don’t mind if we do.

Forget about the personality for a minute. They have a different thing in common. Uselessness. I tried AI for a bunch of general use cases and it almost always fails to satisfy. Either it just can’t do the task in the first place or it makes mistakes that then cost too much time to fix.

There are exceptions and specialized models will have their use but it’s not the Swiss army knife tool AI companies are promising.

This generation of software companies really seem to have abandoned all previous goals for “Let’s see how shit we can make this!”

“Sir, if we can finish our robot it could help with any household chores and even take over most of the care work for the elderly. Then in future patches we could make it waterboard the user unless they get the waterboardless premium subscription. Then we’ll increase the cost and slowly reintroduce waterboarding even for subscribers.”

They don’t. It’s part flood the zone, part pandering to certain voters. Look what we do for you! A blue state wouldn’t fight for your health like this!

Nothing will come of it but it’s a positive distraction from the extraction of wealth that is currently happening.