I have had almost no luck having AI work with proprietary, or even unpopular APIs.

Caveat: I have had much more luck with them when using derived AI trained on said proprietary APIs, assuming sufficient code exists to leverage. So perhaps you need to tell the boss you need to spend money to hire a team of people to train an AI on your various APIs. Once the bill for that one comes in, you'll be safe.

It is Tuesday, chicken TACOs for everyone.

Yes, well in my history of US-based companies doing any kind of tech work, it's always India. And in my experience, right now, due to Trump's TCJA R&D tax grenade, companies are trying to move work back to India again. Since the BBB is once again putting the R&D tax breaks on a fuse set to blow up after he leaves office, companies aren't changing course.

Except this is really about having meetings with India.

Exec's are pretty high on the possibility of firing everyone and are pushing us to use it.

The more likely alternative is that Harry Potter is hugely popular and referenced so many times in so many places that whatever training they did ended up weighting it more heavily. Possibly also people mimicked the author's style and linguistic patterns so much that it is easy to reproduce.

Although I personally liked Sandman Slim, given the subject matter of that book, it didn't have anywhere near the widespread cultural impact.

You cannot die, McLeod. Accept it.

Also Sean Connery.

Although outsourcing is definitely a thing, a lot of companies are just not hiring, even at the expense of shipping new products. Do not discount enshittification and stagnation. Why build a new thing, when you can put lipstick on the old thing.

And we have the steam deck, which does this thing already without inviting MS into the home.

That is a half-truth. China is 100% guilty of everything they are accused of, and more. That's not proaganda.

But yes, we've given them too much money and allowed their fetid mass of government to be a threat. There is propaganda sold to the west by our own oligarchs, with the notion that by allowing them to exploit the cheap labor market of China, we would all be uplifted into the intellectual and cultural elite. Obviously that doesn't work, toilets need cleaning too. However by our having invested so much money into China, rather than dominating them and cracking them open, we instead started to get infected with their rot, and yes, they now have the power to be dangerous to our oligarchs. That doesn't change the equation any, they need to be shut down.

Of course we do also need to shut our oligarchs down too.

If they drop the whole CCP thing and murder their ruling class in the streets, we'd all probably do business with them again. Maybe even to the point where we flee our oligarch hell-holes in pursuit of a better life.

The reasons to force the phone ecosystems to open continue to mount, and itâ(TM)s pretty clear governments are benefiting greatly from our lack of control over our devices

Their business model is to make their content public and index high on google. And they are mad that someone is using that public knowledge.

The solution is simple, put it behind a paywall. Problem solved, they will go bankrupt in a few hours and Anthropic will have to use something else. Literally everyone wins, except holders of rddt, but they kind of have that coming.

Letâ(TM)s stop wasting money and space on that.

Itâ(TM)s the actual purpose of most appointees in the administration: erode confidence in the government so they can more readily defund it.

The problem is that the people who think this is a good idea are also the primary beneficiaries, and donâ(TM)t seem to realize it.