..a future AI that can actually find tricky bugs and security problems
Unfortunately, today, scumballs gotta scumball
It will get a lot worse before it gets better

I use perplexity, claude and gemini
I ask questions and get answers
Some are surprisingly good, others are reasonable if incomplete
I see no hint of "juicing engagement"
It's important to recognize that these models are all "work in progress" and that various strategies are being tried and modified as development continues

...one aspect may be the abundance of poorly trained graduates.
The conventional wisdom is that everyone needs to go to college, talented or not.
The best of the best are not having problems.
The students who either have no talent or spent their time socializing, binge drinking and cheating on exams will have big problems.
College should be about training the mind, not slouching through with minimum effort to "tick off a box" in a list of requirements

...easily design a new, reliable system at a reasonable cost
But only if bureaucrats and profiteers didn't get involved
What happens instead is that bureaucrats waste a tremendous amount of time and money on paperwork before awarding the contract to a profiteer who sees the contract as a cash cow to be milked for every cent possible while hiring cheap, incompetent people to do the work

If I'm in the market for a product or service, I request pitches from all suppliers
Suppliers send me their pitches, precisely targeted to my request without unrelated spam
When I decide to buy or not buy, the pitches stop, really stop
This would be useful

Today's so-called "targeted" ads suck mightily
I get ads for stuff I already bought
I get ads for stuff I looked at once and had no interest in
I get random ads that don't fit me at all
I get the same ad, over and over

I'm a glassworker and for years glassworkers have used facebook to show and sell their work.
Then scammers appeared and copied all of the photos of famous artists' work and offered them for sale at very low prices. Of course, nothing was ever delivered.
When the legitimate artists, whose photos were copied, informed facebook, nothing was done. When lots of other artists also informed facebook, nothing was done.
It appears that facebook does not care at all about these scams

At best, it's a gamble, at worst a scam
Gambling is a tax on people who are bad at math
Borrowing money to gamble is stupid
The government can not, and should not try to pass laws against stupidity

I wonder if they indirectly cause more crashes because they drive so slug-slow and regular drivers need to execute risky maneuvers to get around them

...with Gemini
I asked it for a graph and it replied something like
"I can't display the graph but you can search for it using these terms"
WTF?
A google tool can't use google?

..legitimate need for phones in school
They are only a distraction, and a serious one

...from acquiring tech is futile and ultimately self-defeating
There are lots of smart engineers and scientists in China who are really good at overcoming obstacles

..using a compiler would be considered cheating
The tools are evolving and successful coders in the future will make good use of them

I can see expert craftspeople demonstrating their craft as well as graduate-level math and physics courses
Best education tool ever!
I suspect that the vast majority of stuff on youtube is crap, but the fact that a tiny bit is great is all that matters to me

No

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IBM was a technology leader
Now, all they care about is having the sales staff close to the customers and the tech workers in India
I miss the old IBM