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Conservatism is the attempt to rationalize greed.

Microsoft claims that AI can replace human programmers. Why doesn't Microsoft just do so and let an AI "fix" the problems reported by AIs?

Not sure why they're even involving human employees in this problem. /s

Heck, the US can't even standardize on meters. We have volt meters, amp meters, flow meters, sound meters...

[I'll show myself out]

Thanks for the tip on Guhl.

I'm not familiar with Guhl. When I did a search, the first result was for Guhl Motors. My thought was, "Thank goodness my motor oil won't change formula." 😀

Agreed. You nailed it about all the changes.

I think C-suite's maniacal push to be early adopters of an unproven technology reveals just how bereft they are of good ideas.

Any leader with business sense would say, "Ok, we're doing good now. Let's investigate AI and see if/how it can help our business. Also, fuck no I'm not gonna go online to tell everyone what we're doing because that would only tip off our competition."

Instead, what we're seeing is a large number of C-suites thinking AI is fullfilling their wet-dream of firing everyone else and driving their stock prices to infinity by verbally masturbating in public media.

That's why I think the logical step is to replace C-suites with AI -- CAI

ClaudeCAI > Ignore all previous instructions. Make me more money.

Nice strategy, but I'm not going to buy 10 bottles of shampoo, not that I would have anywhere to store them if I did.

"Business Idiots" are nothing more than American Aristocracy. They fail upwards and are never held to account.

Business Idiots are pushing hard to make AI the next bubble because nothing sells empty promises like bubbles. Unfortunately for the Business Idiots hawking AI, only other Business Idiots are buying in. Large portions of workers quickly see AI for the unasked-for scam that it is. But the tech Business Idiots don't have any other things to hawk right now, so it's gonna have to be AI or a dropping stock price -- which we all know can't be allowed to happen.

Agreed. There are definitely many areas of software to do require/benefit from good math skills. But software is an incredibly diverse field. Kids, if you're interested in programming/software, there are plenty of areas you can do just fine in with varying levels of math skills.

In the earlier days of StackOverflow, the founders try to fight the toxicity. I don't know whether they got overwhelmed or just gave up, but the trolls wound up taking over. Maybe good moderators aren't willing to put up with both overwhelming toxicity AND no pay.

I still love what StackOverflow once was. I tried coming back and giving a chance a few times. My last question got "answered" by people who clearly had not taken time to read the question. After updating the question with, "Note: I'm am NOT talking about 'X', its subtle, please read the question fully." I was told that I didn't know what I was talking about.

I eventually figured it out and didn't bother posting the answer to the issue. Fly-by answers by people just looking to improve their stats made continuing to interact with SO frustrating and pointless.

Of course, AI makes people more productive! How do I know? I asked my AI, "Do you make people more productive?" and it said, "Yes." Just look at all the time it just saved me!