The people I work with who find "AI" makes every part of their life easier were just bad at everything to begin with. The people who find "AI" making specific tasks easier have specialized skills and were previously relying on less specialized people for some support.

I work in a multinational nightmare corp, we still have a mission critical Win95 machine.

It blows me away that a bank can't afford to do for themselves what Certbot and Lets Encrypt does for me, for free.

Like, pay a guy a whole week to automate this and it will save you the 12hrs losses every time your cert expires.

Having some independent developers in the defence market is not necessarily a bad thing.

I haven't been in the GNOME settings for years.

Whether it's a giant corporate model or something you run locally, there is no intelligence there. It's still just a lying engine. It will tell you the string of tokens most likely to come after your prompt based on training data that was stolen and used against the wishes of its original creators.

If it get "lost" or "stolen" you aren't out much, and it doesn't contain any personal information. If "law enforcement" gets their hands on it the only data it has is the IMEI and maybe wireless MACs, enough to ID you based on previous use but they would have to contact telecos and request the info. Current "law enforcement" seems too chaotic to spend time tracing the owner of an empty phone.

You get x-many joules of energy from combining each carbon atom with two oxygen atoms, then you have to capture that energy and turn it into useful work, but that is a lossy process. So even if your gaoline-from-air machine was 100% efficient you would still need to burn more carbon than it captures just to run the machine, so to make it run you need to supplement it with some other energy source.

If you already have an additional energy source with which you can run your gasoline machine then why make the gasoline at all? Just use the energy source you have directly in an electric car.