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New comment by corywadd in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

corywadd — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:47:58 +0000

Agreed, people confuse the (totally expected) bumps and bruises of early adoption with somehow equating to "this technology is useless."

The Wright Brothers couldn't cross the Atlantic in their first flier and plenty of subsequent designs crashed and burned (literally). But now air travel is commonplace. Same will happen with AI, we just have to get past these early pains.

New comment by corywadd in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

corywadd — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:39:48 +0000

> The same thing every DIY and shade tree mechanic uses to read codes and run service procedures.

Now you have me wondering if this is their real target, to go after people who are defeating CRM on their vehicles so they can repair them themselves or in their small mom-and-pop garage of choice. But right to repair is popular, so they have to claim it's for something else.

New comment by corywadd in "The AI zombification of universities"

corywadd — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:54:49 +0000

I would suggest the one exception to this would be courses explicitly designed to teach how to use AI, and how not to. But in that case, it's less "use AI to cheat on this course" and "AI is the tool this course is about."

Otherwise your suggestion makes sense.