baines

i mean this could easily be canada

i want to say alberta had something like this not too long ago

lmao I would not be able to bite my tongue

“Some advice I learned early in my career, if I may? It is not what you kill, but who you kill that matters in the end. So… get out there and kill someone… special.”

i have more faith in this endpoint happening than gen ai but i’m just tired of tech news reporting hype

and then 14th SE doesnt connect with 14th NE

thanks portland

imagine instead of ai it was your compiler

we all know they can have weird quirks but imagine the fail rates were like we are experiencing with current ai

would people keep these tools in their work flow?

if big business wasn’t so hard on to cut labor the answer would be a hard no

except using your metaphor, everyone using the hammer has the same problems, and it is using said hammer as advertised, regardless of what we all know should be best practices

there have been multiple big fuck ups now and i think the reason why matters less than the fact the cause will not improve any time soon

everyone using ai says some variation of this

acting like they do proper code review on this ai gen code but we’ve had so many examples of how people well before ai carried massive tech debt and cut corners so I have zero faith

much less the numerous examples of slop laden bugs making it to live with major companies in the us

ai just amplifies and obfuscates the problem

we knew the microslop update to win 11 was going to be shite

it got offshored a decade ago though

he was better of quitting and getting a new job the moment the update failed

lol

i imagine you being this obtuse is a byproduct of being so far up your own ass

as to why take a no interest loan when i can buy outright, look up time value money

the research i did for both the current model and few years back showed i paid below market average

but yea i am sure you know better with zero specific details

hell credit arbitrage alone would be like 15k and that’s really conservative

yea i’ma gonna take my actual research over some vague logic and feels even if i agree in principle, vaguely hand waving about bad deals while eating interest for the same otherwise price is lol

yea truth, i am not trusting of american car quality

where is this world of perfect information you have about car prices?

far as i know i paid under regional prices on the average before even the no interest

but if you have a source i’ll take it

if you’re having to get another mechanic to look at it, i’d probably not come back

already said fuck you to honda ever again for this kinda behavior

it can be as simple as selling at cost / relatively small loss keeping you in an ecosystem for future knock on profits

not as common in cars but plenty of examples in retail

they’re definitely making less margin and there are plenty of loss lead situations or outside pressures in the short term

you can see what the car was selling for prior months so  I’m not sure how much you think it could be increased without it being obvious? (steam sales come to mind)

better argument would be how much they think they’d lose not selling current inventory and what you could potentially haggle the price down to vs you don’t for this deal but that’s insider info I would not have

and I did haggle that some as well anyway

beyond that, if i was that price sensitive, i would not be buying new

but i’ve seen so many people chase a better deal into future problems

who said the car was free?

you’re just not paying interest

0 percent interest auto loans are a thing