That is not any better than "blindly adopting AI", you're starting with the tech and trying to shoehorn it in your solution, this is an old well-known anti-pattern that applies to any kind of tech stack when it comes to designing a product as your main objective.

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I would like to offer a counterexample: iPhone, when it first came out anyways. Tasteful design is rather so obvious that when you see it you'd say yes, this is what anyone would expect from a "phone". That doesn't seem to be so subjective.

I don't think you can find that level of ego anywhere in the software industry or any other industry for that matter. Respetc.

You can test this, if you talk about your idea to three people and one of them says we're already doing that and the other two think you're insane, you'd be safe.

I believe it's an ad. Everything about it is trying so hard to seem legit and it's the most pointless thing I have ever seen.

You said it yourself. If you're selling a cure, you might as well start a plague.

While it's difficult to define, wisely can turn 'LLMs are useless' to 'ten X productivity boost'. However, at the end, of course, it all comes down to products. Before LLMs stole the show, we had built beautiful system software over the course of decades, linux, git, k8s and rust and yet the products that we use everyday are mostly (mostly) user-hostile and incorporate dark patterns, offer a suboptimal UX, and (in my opinion) sometimes involve outright inhuman marketing practices. That being said, even if you get AGI I don't think it will lead to any breakthroughs if we continue to do 'software engineering' like this year after year.

So you'd prefer.. inaction? So we know for a fact we will going to reach world peace ten years from now having done absolutely nothing?

Isn't that good for the US? I mean at least it reads a lot better that totalitarian and terrorist regimes preinstalled.

Where does that come from? I've seen this verbatim in a few places. Let me guess, the s o c i a l m e d i a?

Oh, the so called "extremists" are/were the ones with power. This is where it tops out. I know it's hard to see from a distance but you have no idea how bad can it get under the safe and sound status quo.

edit: I'd also add that this was also a message to the Supreme Leader -- he seems to be oblivious to the consequences of the threats for his own people and, quite frankly, counts on the percentage of people who disagree. The sheer volume of the lies that is going around is astonishing and you have to live it to know.