Comment by bluGill
22 minutes ago
There is a fad every few years that uses similar thinking to justify spending. Sometimes they work out sometimes they don't. But they never work out as good as the most optimistic predictions.
22 minutes ago
There is a fad every few years that uses similar thinking to justify spending. Sometimes they work out sometimes they don't. But they never work out as good as the most optimistic predictions.
I commented on wasteful AI spending, and my father immediately started talking about how he "went through that a couple of times" as a manager at an oil company.
The unusual thing is perhaps how global and cross industry it seems.
Usually, someone extracts genuine value at the expense of everything else IMO. And the enshittification continues apace.