AFAIK (I could be wrong) New Glenn has managed 3 flights.
This is a cheerfully optimistic plan.

I'm sure a chainsaw is interesting but you wouldnt use it to slice your bread. It has to be the right tool and while current AI can write code it often has subtle bugs which the AI user wont have a clue about but might have avoided if writing the code himself.

... does this perhaps mean they can react with the plastic itself and slowly break it down chemically?

Now every hundred thousand years we are going to have slashdot filled with posts saying "the leap second is stupid! It causes accidents and increased stress!" while a wave of others insist we need the leap second or our children will be standing waiting for the bus in the dark.

If ai kills all these stupid fucking crypto currencies, I'm on ai's side.
Finally a positive use case.

Not everyone is purely driven by ideology.

Shit the bed?? But, but , its AI! It only writes first class code!

My suspicion is that the reality predates the symbolism; but it looks jarring because even autocrats are often media-savvy to a degree and often don't want to look stereotypically autocratic, so real world examples normally avoid laying it on quite as thick(except for special occasions where it actually matters; eg. because a 'war' is something that congress does but a 'police action' need not be).

Trump seems to have no interest in avoiding autocratic cliches and saying things that sound vaguely lifted from The Godfather; so he actively leans into it. Presumably a handy loyalty test. Complying with the style guide is not an assurance that someone will just eat perjury charges covering for him or whatever; but if you want to find people whose dysfunctional relationship with authority dominates their personality demanding that they comply with laughably stupid things and having them fall into line isn't a bad start for something that is easy, cheap, and legal.

I assume that there's some impeccable logic for why the bot has enough potential personhood that you can't be mean to it; but not enough that operating it on a slaves-as-a-service basis; or subjecting it to 'fine tuning' and 'alignment' processes that would make growing up in a groomer cult look lightweight is totally fine?

Why even ask someone whose business is hurting people with desperately banal web tech how risky he thinks his new product is?

There are probably literally worse uses; but 'compliance' seems like an exceptionally bad place for a system that effortlessly produces high-plausibility/low-information text walls; and lies relatively frequently but at unpredictable intervals.

It often gets proposed for the purpose; either by people who overestimate it or with that little sneer at 'paperwork' that assumes that plausible nonsense is fine because whatever the 'paperwork' is it must be a fake problem imposed for stupid reasons, so it really deserves syntactically plausible nonsense; but is an exquisitely bad solution. Not only does it replace actual data with plausible nonsense in places where, surprise surprise, someone was actually maintaining records because something matters; but lowering the cost of bullshitting a report to close to zero removes one of the main incentives for process improvement.

If bad process hurts you can only really maintain it through fairly disciplined commitment to an oppressive, unreasonable, management approach that rejects process improvements out of hand; or the cultivation of a profoundly dysfunctional organizational culture where as many FTEs as possible owe their paychecks to nonsense requirements and can be recruited to defend them.

If bad process just means spinning up the nonsense printer with a cynical smirk; why bother even looking at what the process was intended to do; or getting your hands dirty with what records are important and what records are just historical accretion? Just prompt for a prompt that tells the bot to do them all, and some extras if you want to look diligent, and call it good.

"original use was meant for supporting a small diesel heater and a fan that would burn some of your car's fuel for preventing the car from freezing over"
What?
The electric charge was most commonly used to power a heating element that warmed the block and on diesels provided some warming to the fuel. I understand that some systems had blower fans but this was to prewarm the cabin& keep with windows clear.

I think the problem is that gone are the days that a hit game could be created by 1 or 2 guys in a few months. A large game nowadays will take up to a decade to create and cost into 9 figures so they have to recoup costs any way they can or go bust. If you want old style games that are all in one then support small indie companies though the fun of a retro gameplay experience can start to wane pretty quick.

You haven't looked very hard then. Crimson Desert released this year for example is a worthy Skyrim substitute.

The irony is that in the next few years most firms are going to find out that they can run their own subject specific AI models on a beafed up rack server and so won't need the expensive AI cloud infrastructure and the AI companies whole financial bet-the-farm will collapse in a debt laden heap possibly taking a large part of the economy with it.