Wasn’t that Amazon and their “just walk out” grocery store system?

I tried it once at the start of covid. My food finally got to me lukewarm ninety minutes after I ordered it. I’m sure the restaurants and drivers have improved since then, but I just can’t justify paying almost double for my food.

Seems like the software could have been updated to batch orders similar to how the drivers were.

AI is incredible if you ask it about stuff you’re not an expert on. Once you ask it those things you already have expert level knowledge on, especially nuanced questions, you’ll start to see the issues. It won’t be every question it gets wrong, but it’s often enough to be an issue.

Some (all?) of the causes he’s championing are great and I hope they succeed. I just don’t get the impression I would enjoy hanging out with him.

I would argue that there is no such thing as a good reason to store plain text passwords.

All these ai agents sound interesting on paper, but who actually wants them? A salesman was talking about a company that used one to let customers initiate returns like it was impressive. I can accomplish that with any app, email, or phone call today. How is an agent doing it better?

My hope is that it will always be a little too disjointed to hold that kind of attention for long.

It will get rid of the ads though.

I’ve always used Pandora. I don’t remember exactly in what way, but it’s significantly different from Spotify. I prefer it, though, but I know that’s just because it’s what I used first.

But it’s going to be amazing! Incredible capabilities are just 6-12 months away!

Why all these products and implementations and spending can’t wait for those capabilities to be real is beyond me.

Salesforce recently got rid of their “crate a case” form and replaced it with a chat bot to do the exact same thing. Of course it tries to talk you out of creating a case first, but will begrudgingly create one eventually. It’s one of the most asinine uses for a chat bot I’ve ever seen.

“You can get pretty good results most of the time and save money on labor!” Not like our whole business model is focused on expertise and compliance or anything. Surely our clients won’t mind a few little mistakes here and there, as a treat.

A salesman for an AI consulting company made the comment that we don’t expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI? He was smug about it, too, like it was his big gotcha. Joke’s on him, I’m the one that talked the bosses out of spending money with them.

I’ve found some very limited use for house projects so I can show my partner what I’m thinking of instead of trying to sketch something. Visualizing house paint also made getting HOA approval much easier. It’s all stuff that could have been done with a pencil and paper or with regular photo editing software instead, though, and absolutely doesn’t justify the costs.

The AI edit to show house color also made some weird structural changes, like changing light fixtures, adding gutters, and replacing a retaining wall.

I like to browse by new, but that also means most things have no comments. Which sort do you usually use?

Phones used to be “free” but your bill was higher to cover it. Your bill stayed the same whether you took the “free” phone or not. Now your bill is lower, but buying a phone through the carrier brings it back up. That’s been my experience at least.

It’s the “menace” strip on hyperbole and a half.

That reminds me of hyperbole and a half. Thank you.

https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2013/10/menace.html

You know how you can kind of pull the handles a certain way to make bad scissors work? Using them in the wrong hand is like the opposite of that. As you observed it’s less of an issue with decent scissors.