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”.
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???
“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.
I see he’s still completely tone-deaf, too.
This author was sooo close to get it
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.
Eww. It’s a LLM travel agent.
