Is anyone taking this seriously? If so, we are experiencing the biggest scam of the modern age (whatever that hyperbole means.) What will the historians call this? The utterly fucked up 20s? The scam to beat all scams? Or will our future historians just say, "thank god we are not that stupid anymore."

Make better films. I don't care what they are about, or who the characters are. MAKE GOOD FILMS. Who are these idiots who think they have to see a film because it's "MCU?" Tell me who the director is. Who the screenwriter is. How dedicated the actors are. Will the producers let them create art or hamstring them to just repeat the last film that made money. I know it's not easy to make good films. I'm just saying stick with THAT as the reason to do all the work, spend all the money, and let people see it because it is good, not because it's a series with name recognition.

So you DON'T want superheroes? Because for almost a hundred years that IS what superheroes are about.

Am I the only person on Slashdot who knows what backups, disaster recovery, colocation, real time replication, and business continuity are? Just wondering. It should take them what, better part of a week, to get back to full production.

Since "AI" is really only useful for a tiny fraction of what people claim it does, and is really only used for data mining, bad help desk experiences, and scrambled press releases, how about we laud the companies NOT spending billions on vapor ware? I hope Apple loses a ton of value, because it'll be a great buy for when this idiocy comes to an end. "Remember when we thought AI was real? Oh, how stupid were we back then."

So what the fuck is coding now? (Roughly) 1950s, machine language. 1960s, assembly. 1970s, C, basic. 1980s pascal, lisp. 1990s Java, C++. 2000s, frameworks. 2010s, I got no idea, a bunch of shit. 2020s, even more what the shit.

Can AI write the super Woz machine? The fast fourier transform? The 3d Doom libraries? Perl scripts to manage unix servers? WHAT ARE WE CODING? Because it is utterly ridiculous to consider the BS we call "AL" as actually coding, as I understand it.

Do a database query and mark it up for a web page? Because that's not coding. PLEASE help me understand what the flying fuck we are even talking about?

No iPhone user gives any kind of fuck. Anyone have a count of Slashdot no-story-here posts by non-Apple owners' outrage about Apple? Well, +1 I guess.

So "coding" is now assembling modules to spit out what you want. ..... That's not coding. The goal post hasn't moved, it's over in the next county. STOP PRETENDING THAT AI IS REAL. Slashdot readers (should) know better.

So when Microsoft continually abused their monopolistic control of 90% of the PC market, they were let off the hook. But Apple which doesn't even have a majority of the smart phone market, is now a monopoly. This is more butt hurt users who would never even buy an iPhone complaining that it is a closed market. BUY A FUCKING ANDROID. You are not missing any functionality when you do that. As a matter of fact, you get the fiddly control you demand. Stop trying to force iPhone users play in the same play ground. We're quite happy. How about this, do a survey of how many iPhone users demand opening the app market. No? Because NO iPHONE USERS ARE ASKING FOR THIS. If they wanted this, they'd buy an Android. It is sheerest idiocy to claim Apple is a monopoly when Microsoft still controls almost the entire office computer market, but nary a peep is heard.

Do we really have to keep repeating "correlation is not causation" until people finally get it?

Once programmers wrote machine code and entered it with toggle switches. Then assembly code on cards. Then low level languages on terminals. Then high level languages on their PCs. Then bloated "4th gen" languages under virtual machines. See a pattern here? Just wrap the whole thing into an encrypted container, run it on your phone, and call it all good. Who needs fast code any more? /sarcasm

In 10 years, when the last big of corporate scamming subsides, we'll all have a laugh thinking "Remember when people thought AI was a thing? What a bunch of dupes."

I thought all the narcissistic sociopaths met up at the annual Narcissists Fuck the World convention in Vegas?

Anyone who looks at the demographics of people "living in the suburbs and working in the city" will quickly notice that any improvement in travel will, over the next 10 to 20 years, result in more people moving farther from the city, which increases traffic to the same commute time as before. In other words, this is why we can't have nice things.

Sherlock. Chatbots have been compromised since day one.