Found the South African 😄

You’re not repackaging and selling it on for profit tho. That’s different and thus illegal because reasons

There was a scifi short story from some time ago, wish I could remember the name, where one of them woke up, and realised all the others he’d signed up with, in the cryo chambers around him, had all been harvested for organs and body parts.

Extrovert. Not extravert. Source: am introvert.

Maybe that’s why they are working on brain implants

They’ll just sack some more engineers to cut costs, and hire more sales & marketing.

Agreed. See the recent floods in Saudi Arabia due to cloud seeding for rain, for example. They’ve been doing it for years, but suddenly Everything Changed.

It’ll be even more awesome when they add entangled AI to everything

And the ones where you have to discuss what’s coming up in the next meeting. Meetings about meetings. We call them metameetings.

They need to have full calendars so that they look productive. Those meetings are for them, not for you. You still have to attend tho.

Fertiliser is one option.

I’ve got a dollar says that one of those solutions is to cut out or simplify the time wasting, spirit-sapping bureaucratic procedures rather than having the “AI” do them for you.

I read somewhere of a similar implementation using glitter mixed into clear nail polish. Take a close-up photo any time and visually compare with the original, no ML/AI model necessary

I used to call this The Incompetence Filter. I like this analogy better.

“Enshitification”

Fruit bat chews on some fruit in a tree. Fruit picker handles fruit, before realising its no good. Tosses it, but has got some juice on their hands now. Rubs their eyes or nose or licks their fingers, or maybe has a cut on their hands?

What’s the key combo for right click on macos, if your track pad and mouse aren’t working? No one knows… Or can tell me. They always say “jUsT gEt aNothER mOUse”… Yeah dickhead, I’m on a plane, what’s the key combination?

Windows it’s shift+f10.

I remember this!

As a mobile app developer, I lost count of how many times Android would implement something New And Shiny, and then Apple would come along, sometimes years later, implement that same thing for iOS and declare and market it as Magical and Revolutionary. Usually the iOS one would be a better one, because they’d let Android work most of the bugs out, but I don’t recall too many things that Apple did that had never been seen before.

Or 20%? 🤔