It’s not solely AI.

It’s AI + Contract workers who don’t know anything.

Nobody is asking the question “If you have to use AI that much, doesn’t that mean you aren’t very good at your job? 🤔”

Back in the day I worked at a place that gave everyone pedometers and encouraged everyone to get in at least 10,000 steps a day. Yes, employees were ranked.

Guys in the machine shop figured out you could attach it to a power drill and register 10,000 steps in a couple of minutes.

Why yes, yes the idea was discontinued after that…

Take Gemini out of it… Lets say you get spam in Gmail and you mark it “Block Sender”.

It doesn’t actually block them, it just routes it to the Spam folder. If you’re super lucky, it routes it to Trash. At no point are they blocked from sending to you.

“Hey Co-Pilot, remove Gemini”

“Hey Gemini, remove Co-Pilot”

Let them fight it out. 😉

The feels. Week 1 here.

Consistent with my experience! With the added bonus of cheap, outsourced developers who can’t find their ass with both hands.

10 years is optimistic. I’m already seeing management telling experienced developers “You aren’t using Claude hard enough.”

It’s going to be delicious when we find out who it is…

As a resident of the Pacific Northwest, there are so many Native names on everything, but the tribes themselves are unknown.

Example - Multnomah County:

The Multnomah were a division of the Chinook people, but I’d wager most folks aren’t even aware that Multnomah were a people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multnomah_people

“In 1830, a disease generally thought to have been malaria devastated the Multnomah villages.[2] Within five years, the village of Cathlapotle was abandoned and was briefly inhabited by the Cowlitz tribe. The Multnomah people had nearly been wiped out by the year 1834 due to malaria and smallpox outbreaks. With only a few Multnomah left by the year 1910, the remaining people were transferred to the Grand Ronde Community which is also located in the Northwest of Oregon.[3]”

The kicker is, the folks claiming it don’t even know. Just “Indian princess”.

I was quite pleased doing my DNA to find:

“0.05% - Unknown”

Well that explains a lot!

Quite a few Americans have the whole “Indian Princess Ancestor” mythology going on. Always a princess, BTW.

The #1 thing you learn by watching Antiques Roadshow is that most family stories are nonsense.

“identify people walking within a network’s range”

So it’s dependent on me walking? Good luck! 🤣

They used the onboard cameras to take pictures of kids in their bedrooms.

A bigger problem is school sponsored spyware on the devices. Weird how they don’t mention that:

https://www.eff.org/wp/school-issued-devices-and-student-privacy

https://time.com/7275031/spy-high-true-story-prime-video/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/19/schools-spied-on-students-webcams

It’s different this time because previously, the folks in India didn’t know anything, the execs here believe they can fire people with years of experience and replace them with Indian techs using AI and be just as good.

It will still blow up in 1-2 years, but that’s the idea for now.

It wouldn’t have been without AI. They believe telling them to use AI is cheaper.

I’ve personally seen multiple departments eliminated because they would rather send the jobs to Indian sub contractors backed by AI.

“If”? 🤔