This reads like someone who wants to write on linked in but couldn’t even be taken seriously there.
This whole article is just a condescending mess.
“Why does everyone who has been repeatedly burned by AI, time and time again, whether that be through usable software becoming crammed full of useless AI features, AI making all the information they get less reliable, or just having to hear people evangelize about AI all day, not want to use my AI-based app that takes all the fun out of deciding where you go on your vacation???”
(yes, that is actually the entire proposed app. A thing where you say where you’re going, and it generates an itinerary. Its only selling point over just using ChatGPT directly is that it makes sure the coordinates of each thing are within realistic travel restrictions. That’s it.)
Yeah if AI was actually good you wouldn’t need to mandate it. No one was like “everyone here must use Google search”.
Microsoft when Bing first came out was literally like “it is highly recommended that everyone here use Bing Search”.
Also there was a brief time within the Linux community, hen asking for solutions in forums were disencouraged in favor of using Google, especially as that time Google was seen as a force of good, as Chrome wasn’t the RAM-eating beast powering almost all browsers and ~80% of desktop apps, also not even the content ID system was implemented on YouTube. This made the Linux community more toxic to newbies, hindering its adoption rates to this day, with memes claiming “you should google forums telling you to google the problem”.
I’m pretty sure that a lot of people outside Seattle, also hates AI…
I didn’t fully grok how tone deaf I was being though.
WTF does this mean???
You can bacially replace grok with “clock”, or, even better, “notice.”
“Grok” was briefly a real(ish) word back in the 60’s, after Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land first came out. It faded into obscurity over the last few decades until Elon ressurected it, and now writers are unironically utilizing it again for some reason.
People using the word “grok” has always been a red flag. The people who read stranger in a strange land and identified with it so much they started using the word are fucking weirdos. The book is about a child adopted by Martians who inherited their reality-bending mind powers, comes back to earth as an adult and creates a nudist sex cult. Basically Jared Leto. I’m not joking, that’s the book.
It was always elder developers who didn’t wear shoes and had trouble with personal space.
https://hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/grok.html
I read it in my early twenties, almost twenty years ago. I am not a developer but am in the same area. I always wear some form of shoes when I leave my house unless I enter someone else’s house. I don’t think I have trouble with personal space but I don’t really see anyone other than my wife and kid.
I remember liking some of the themes of the book but, reflecting on it now, yes, Heinlein can be problematic.
There is no problem with having read the book, there’s no problem with liking it. I did both, the first time i read it I thought it was cool. I’m more taking about people who made the nude sex cult book part of their personality enough to use the word grok unironically.
I read it as a teenager and wasn’t particularly impressed. As an adult I reread it after hearing it was a “classic” and I couldn’t even make it halfway through. Absolutely agree that liking that book is a red flag
I see he’s still completely tone-deaf, too.
The author of this article is literally the Principal Skinner meme
She talked about Copilot 365. And Microsoft AI. And every miserable AI tool she’s forced to use at work. My product barely featured. Her reaction wasn’t about me at all. It was about her entire environment.
Bro should ask a coal miner what they think about their bbq grill next time.
So, the people in companies pushing and making this AI slop treat it like toxic waste, and the author thinks that they’re the problem?
I suddenly want to look at his AI map thingy and see how bad it is.
I mean, clicking through to his website shows the branding alternate between Wanderfugl(?) and WanderFull so either it’s a sloppy branding mismatch through evolving iterations or … slop.
“Wanderfugl” is a name so bad it legitimately sounds like a Rick and Morty joke.
Eww. It’s a LLM travel agent.
This author was sooo close to get it
