Rogue Wit #HoistTheBlack

@OecFiber Why are you available literally on all four sides of this square but not in this edition? Do you guys just not like them?

@larianstudios #ArtificialIntelligenceWasNeverTheAnswer

@ADHDForReal C. Yes.

@AVGirl4Life 40% tip? In the US? For a Michelin Chef maybe. Servers get 20% for good service. Standard. Better yet, servers should demand an ACTUAL wage instead of accepting Federal minimum wage from 1975. Then tips for excellence are meaningful and unexpected, not rent.

Don’t Lie Yes or No

@gothburz AI shouldn't be a product in the 1st place. It was only ever meant to be a replacement for the console. A natural *language* interpreter. Jarvis wasn't smart, it just knew how to communicate with Tony. It's an accessory. A peripheral. AI is intelligent like a hoverboard hovers.

To be clear: the problem isn't Copilot. It's the "add AI to everything" playbook. It's led to inferior and overpriced AI products. $30/seat/month for a wrapper most teams could build in a weekend with MCP or Claude agents - customized to their actual workflows. Microsoft is already scaling back because adoption is a ghost town. extremetech.com/computing/micr…

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@davenewworld_2 See headlines like that all the time. Like it's a foregone conclusion that we're all just going to roll over and accept it instead of fighting back like we are.

Translation: ME and YOU and ALL OF US are gonna suffer, but definitely not HIM

@USPS would never have needed to raise the price of stamps if they would have never decided to cater to solicitors. They would be in surplus instead of operating in the red like a government agenc--oh... That explains why they don't honor their mission anymore.

@fuckyouiquit Huh... Almost like it's impossible to get ACCURATE numbers until you actually LOOK at the data, instead of hand-waving. If ANY of us in the private sector turned in job performance like that we'd have long ago been fired.

@WarcraftMeme Makes me glad I block all those ads at DNS

The WoWhead experience #warcraft

@ThePrimeagen You're wise enough to realize that Language isn't intelligence, that JARVIS is a natural language interpreter, simply a replacement for the I/O console, or that we should never remove the pilots from the Jaeger, & you know AI is intelligent like the hoverboard hovers. NP w/you.

i often feel like i am missing something with ai all these tweets claiming it is the greatest thing ever... yet, i dont see the same thing. I have a list of activities where its incredible at, but none of them at the writing of code, more comprehension only wtf is wrong with me

@fuckyouiquit This is what happens when greed makes you forget why you make the widget in the 1st place. Monopolies don't want competition. Without it, there's no reason to innovate. If they aren't improving their widget by orders of magnitude, it's a failed business plan--& it's showing.

Oh no guys you haven't bought a $1200 doomscroller that's identical to your 2 year old doomscroller. Have you even thought about the economy?!

@GrimKim Especially when the modis operandi is to raise the prices by at least 50% then discounting by 30%, so you're getting a great deal.

with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy

@DarrigoMelanie Health insurance is not a scam. It's racketeering. It's extortion.

The 10 largest health insurance companies reported $25.6 billion in profits so far this year. Health insurance companies make money by denying your claims after you pay your monthly premiums for care. Health insurance is not healthcare. It’s a scam. Demand Medicare for All.

@MorePerfectUS That percentage is an order of magnitude too low, by my mileage.

Approximately 30% of all job postings are fake, with millions of ghost jobs making a tough hiring process even worse.

@nixcraft It's. Always. DNS.

I'm gonna take a wild guess about the #Cloudflare down issue: it's either DNS, networking, or the firewall. That is all. What do you think?

@liljay11k Oh look! Must be that new AI employee replacement CEO's keep insisting on...

@redwyrmofficial I would feel so called out by that, but I still play d&d too.

Conversations with the 9yo DM: 9yo DM: I had a great time playing Magic the Gathering, and the people were really nice though a little weird. Me: What do you mean weird? 9yo DM: Are all Magic the Gathering players just DnD min/maxers who got tired of roleplaying?

@nixcraft If it really is a mystery to you, you clearly haven't been paying attention over the last couple decades. They've been steadily headed in this direction since they merged the 9x code with the NT codebase.

It is a mystery how Microsoft went from this workstation standard to a Copilot infestation at the desktop level. Once upon a time it was the industry standard, and now Windows 11's w/ Copilot first reaction by its long time users is 'Yikes.'

@fuckyouiquit "Good news! We've scheduled you for a skills test for Monday morning, after which I will interview you and you can ask questions about the role and what it entails..." No. You ask my availability for an interview. Also, keep your "test case," I don't work for free.

Hot take, not a single job on the planet is worth more than three interviews. Not a one.