I mean it could be. It could be construed as abusing market dominance in one sector (retail) to gain an unfair advantage in another (selling ads).

Misaligned incentives are alone enough reason to dismiss the entire industry.

But more widely if an organization cannot manage itself it has no business being an organization. It has to either go bust, or have senior management let go.

By hiring management consultants the senior management is acknowledging it cannot run the organization.

Assuming a rectangle of 30 by 50 kilometers, and no organized military for defense, it would take the Russians about 30-45 minutes to reintroduce the imperial subject experience on your proposed utopia.

The reason states are required are that other people are organized in states. Now I am guessing you are from the US, the standard of your living is only made possible, by millions of men and women working seriously to guarantee it, and thousands of nuclear weapons. Take either out of the equation, and your standard of living will very quickly become untenable.

Hell, the internet that you believe can solve all the problems, is only operational because hundreds of thousands of people are continuously working on it, many of them government employees.

You can be like see these very smart people that we are paying a ton of money, agree with me, the fact that i hired them is completely coincidental.

The best supermarket in the UK is Waitrose but the price premium is excessive compared to the quality.

Do they also do it with code? Do you think deliberately picking tokens that are not the highest probability in code is acceptable for the consumer?

I am very confident the reason we get all these second guessing and "but wait" and "actually" is they train them on collapsed corrected sessions. i.e they take sessions that look like this:

  user: Do x.
  agent: the user wants me to do x. I think I need to do a and b first.
  agent: does a.
  agent: does b.
  user: No no no doing a was wrong you should do c before b.
  agent: undoes a. does c.
  agent: does x

  user: do x.
  agent: the user wants me to do x. I think I need to do a and b first.
  agent: but wait maybe I should do c instead of a
  agent: does c
  agent: does b
  agent: does x

Yeah that is most likely less about pride in the craftsmanship and more likely a reflex from bad source version control software.

EDIT: Also, you know they didnt type these comments by hand right? And that the first code completion systems date back to the 70s, granted it was mostly spell checkers.

But yeah you need to know how to write a regex, if you want to be a programmer.

I believe the advice is more like maybe you shouldn't eat the thumbtacks.

Using ai to generate code is one thing asking for book recommendations, career advice, floating business ideas, talking it to it like a friend, running grand ideas past it is not the same.

It's a program that processes and generates words treating it like a person is a one way ticket to depression and delusional thinking.