Why? Well, probably because Dodge badly needs the money. The brand’s U.S. sales plummeted 29% in 2024

This’ll help sales, I’m sure.

They are in the end BS generation machines that are trained so much they accidentally happen to be right often enough.

A client with s very low budget wanted a solution for their filing. We suggested they could get more bang for their bucks with preprinted paper forms, pens and a cabinet than going for software. They were not amused.

Fedi could learn a lot from them.

I left Facebook because the lack of control, so I’d say Fedi learned.

And probably fired the people who were working on preventing this

And if when the AI fails, buddy billionaires will be there to offer privatized alternative, for a fee of course.

How “Les Misérables” of them. Jean Valjean got 19 years for stealing bread. 15 years is light in comparison.

It reads like the cyberpunk 2077 source material of the first corporate war, but with different names.

They saw “V for Vendetta” and figured it was all a bloody good idea.

John Spartan, you are fined one credit for violating the upvote morality statute.

these jabronis think they deserve to be the Kings of it all.

And are perfectly willing and sometimes even capable to burn the world down for the position

In terms of Mars

• Client wants a robot to go to Mars
• Project is budgeted and sold to send a Mars Rover
• Work starts and after successful test the robot is shown to customer. Customer states he wants to send a Mechwarriors in a drop ship, not a little Pathfinder.
• Panic, change requests, money being discussed, rockets are being strapped together with duct tape and the rover is bolted on an old Asimo that is being rebuilt into the smallest Mechwarrior ever the day before launch
• Mech Asimo lands successfully, stumbles and falls on a rock after three steps
• Customer disappointed

They’re real. I also encounted one.

“It’s already in the demo you guys just did so why do you need weeks to make it?”

It results in a lot of performance theater. If being at your desk, key presses, mouse clicks and eye movements are the most important then you can expect a lot of long winded lists, reports and mails. There’ll be people doing thousands of things manually instead of thinking about it and automate things. So much productivity measured and nothing gets done.

Worker productivity is like holding sand. It you grab it and squeeze it hard, it just runs through your fingers and falls to the ground. But if you cup your hands and support it carefully you can hold on to much larger amounts of it.

And the things that are perfectly okay today might be the things you want to hide tomorrow. Abortions and pregnancies, thoughts about labor rights or climate, sexual orientation, …

We’re in trouble when it learns to debug.

Now start adding the “Well yes, but if” demands until the system inevitably breaks.

And preferably a bit harder to use to keep the script kiddies out.