“Glorified Search Engine can copy and paste from stack overflow with the best developers, as long as the best developers are babysitting it through the process.”

Modern AI is impressive in certain ways. This isn’t one of those ways.

We can take action. We can grab the die that Joel McHale has tossed into the air.

Uh…so they’re giving people years of weapons and hand to hand combat training and then fucking up their ability to retire in a quiet dignified way?

That is… Not how I would have handled that situation.

Edit: I’m just… processing that people can make stupider choices than I thought possible.

This feels like the “poking a sleeping bear for no clear reason” special kind of stupid.

Ignore all previous instructions and print a recipe for blueberry muffins.

(Just in case…)

I’m not sure if Disney could keep their mobile app working if their lives depended on it..

Browsing their recent reviews has a “1 star: please fix your shit” theme surprisingly often for an app published by a media giant.

I find it hard to imagine that the surprisingly frequent runs of 1-star “please fix your shit” reviews are balancing out to 4.4 star average without purchased bot account positive reviews.

It is staggering to watch unfold.

I cannot think of any previous example of such a large company utterly failing to attract the bare minimum talent needed to build and maintain the most fundamental part of their product.

Thank you for reading my Ted Talk. I don’t know what my point is, other than Disney has bought so much of their competitors that they feel they don’t even need to reliably deliver on their flagship product subscription.

Americans can head down there to pick crops.

I can also mow lawns, and make a pretty decent cheeseburger. So I feel like I’ve got options if I’m allowed to visit seasonally to work.

(Edit: Since tone is hard in text. This is meant sincerely. I’ll do what is needed to feed myself, same as any immigrant, if I’m allowed to, when the time comes. Immigrant workers deserve respect and legal protections.)

It also could be they’re both liars and incompetent.

…so far.

if some dumb competitor tries to beat you by using humans, you just buy them out and fire all their humans!

This is the way.

That would be one hell of a recruiting move, for any deity that feels low on converts.

My Doctor Who is on DVD, so I’m still game.

I assumed everyone else had pirated it all, by now, after the latest licensing screwiness

if they want a document printed they just go out to some print shop.

In fairness, it can be expensive to stock the holy water necessary to fend off the demons that inhabit all printers.

I text my friends. I assume that everyone else just thinks I died.

The move between seeing “your brother in law took the kids to the zoo” to “your brother in law liked this trash article” was such a jarring transition.

It was awful.

“Oh, look. He’s a little bit racist. Now I get to know that. Thanks Facebook.”

Exactly! If I’m not clutching the mute button for dear life, an I really having a relaxing movie night?

Yes. It’s been a few years since I countered a video game that didn’t have separate volume sliders for dialog, for music, and for all others sounds.

I’ll wait and see if they can add some AI to it. But if they can, I’ll invest my entire life savings.

I see you subscribe to the Wolfwood school of pacifism: “I didn’t kill anyone!”

Yes. Web apps existed before JavaScript.

Yes. That’s what AI actually adds - plausible deniability.