Regarding Alexa, none of those use cases sound that useful to have an ever-present listening device at home, except if one is bedbound or something.

Newb technies love it.

This is not surprising. Did anyone really think the government wouldn't lie?

Just accept that Anthropic (and every other vendor) will raise prices, lower limits, make it so you consume more tokens, and try to lock you in as much as they can get away with.

> as much as they can get away with.

Plus more that they won't get away with.

The collapse of this house of cards will be epic.

The economy is shit. They make the layoffs but instead of saying we're scaling down, they present it as AI related productivity gains.

Just spin for not exactly bright small time stock holders.

Nah, most remain useless.

Inventions that were initially useless but found application later, are still in the very small minority.

It's about trying and breaking things to find out what's working, instead of casually tip-toeing lest you break something, and wasting your time.

or maybe just ask someone for help first before you go breaking stuff?

The quote is for startup businesses, doing novel pivots, and shipping novel features.

It's not for things where you can just ask some expert to tell you what works or decide for you.

Not many startups doing novel things these days.

That's the spirit of the idea: It is meant to free you of that requirement, with the understanding that you very well may break things.

It is permission to trade inaccuracy for autonomy.

The problem is, as is so often the case with our modern companies, the things that got broken were other people's things. The things that were gained were made theirs.

In other words, privatized profits and socialized costs. Again.

There's many such problems with it. Don't misunderstand, I do not condone it :)

Yeah, I hear you...working with your team mates is for smooth-brained chumps. Not like us 100x engineers.

Reads like incompetence to me

Another way of looking at this is "getting early feedback" by failing fast.

It's another way of doing things and not necessarily incompetence.

Maybe that's an incompetent read

>If you can make more money flipping burgers at McDonald's than the business, I'd try something else

If you can make the same or slightly less money way more leisurly and with way less demands on you than working a McDonalds, it's still a fine lifestyle for many.

>Well at a minimum it bought him a new printer so it’s not all wasted

It got him way fewer new printers and more work compared to working at McDonalds and buying the printer with the salary. Opportunity cost.