But it will generate generations of buzzwords for salespeople to dupe clueless managers with. It's a sales efficiency algorithm. It's like greatly improving on a traveling salesperson algorithm, but by using deeper bullshit instead of better routes.

Hypercard influenced VB, one of the most most productive dev tools ever. We somehow de-evolved into bloated buggy learning-curve-heavy web stacks. Ooga Booga.

Most of the complaints about VB-like tools are fixable, but too few bothered to apply some R&D, instead throwing the baby out with the web water, giving us fucked up frameworks on top of the brain-damaged DOM and CSS. You humans are doing it wrong.

Git off my productive lawn, you wormy little buzzword fuckers!

Whenever amateurs and tinkerers use "low code" or Rapid App tools* to create apps, almost 90% turn into maintenance headaches in my experience. They "mostly work" up front, but either the original author leaves, or the app grows into too big a mess for the original author to fix.

The user group calls in the formal IT team to fix it, and then get angry when the formal IT team says, "they didn't use standard practices, made poor documentation, and we are not familiar with their tool". I expect AI "solutions" to be similar.

Formal IT groups are becoming orphanages. Now a rash of AI latchkey orphans are on their way...

Always remember, making the baby is the easy and fun part.

* Such tools don't inherently have to be bad, but in the hand of amateurs they usually are.

this won't end well, pun half-intended

not very resilient after all

They are "resealant" misspelled.

Probably because they are big enough to survive while a merger or acquisition is negotiated. It's the quiet way to die.

So, zero new products.

and they usually crashed into cows, not houses. Instant hamburger.

People used to manage...paper maps...while driving, back in the 1970's and earlier, without wrecking into people

Maybe they did, nobody noticed, news was different back then and crash stats were harder to put together.

Python is probably the wrong language. A compiled language like Java or C# seems a better fit for a staid company.

> Fingers crossed the universe is not like an 80 year old though. I'd prefer to think of it as a teenager

God will give you a choice between a doddling Biden universe or a mad-clown Trump universe.

One theory is our universe is connected to another older universe, and the, I mean our Big Bang was was like an add-on room to a house. The theory is there is some spill-over, God forgot to close the door before setting off the fireworks.

> Ten years are like a hundred in computing.

Only because most "innovation" is just recycled and repackaged ideas from the past. The fad cycle is getting faster, like seeing bell-bottom jeans every 4 years instead of every 15.

Shit, there's 500 Putins floatin' around?

Do note it wasn't profitable cheating that way, but they hoped enough venture capital would fund R&D to get the real AI good enough. Thus, they were buying time.