Its care. Us humans can feel when something was made with care vs when it’s made to check some lists people with ties made. Same with music, food, books, art, software, hardware, design, houses. Most stuff today is made to avoid some risks instead of being what it ought to be. Not trying to please anyone is the best way to make great things. Or maybe it is my hate of focus groups who spoiled it all (and I used to be a game user researcher…)

Curious about that reasoning : where do you draw the line ?

Are you a builder if there is an middleman ? If not, what if the middleman is a tool ? If you use autocad to build the plans, are you still a builder ? What if autocad has a prompt feature, are you still a builder ?

If you actually do something that is considered building.

Same with vibe coding, if you don’t write code you just ordered and didn’t code, otherwise all my customers and bosses where coders long before AI because there orders don’t reach much different from today’s prompts. The recipient changed but that doesn’t change the sender.

It’s some kind of Chinese Room but this time for those outside the room.

Unsure this would help, but maybe thinking in English Prime could be an interesting exercice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

The goal of it all is to reduce the costs of labor (you, basically). On that, AI and robotics are doing just fine !

The labor Waymo reduces is Uber drivers. How is that me basically? I'm not an Uber driver.

I'll have some of that coffee too, this is quite a sad time we're living where this is a proper use of our limited resources.

It takes some skill (that you seem to have) to learn to use those LLM. Sad that not everyone see it that way...

I'd say we did, you need more and more for the same effect.

Here is the first ad ever, for a watch : https://youtu.be/ho2OJfXkvpI

For comparison, here is the latest ad for the best selling watch as of today : https://youtu.be/kdMTc5WfnkM

In case anyone accuses you of not comparing like to like, even a contemporary Bulova commercial is much more similar to the latter than the former: https://youtu.be/trp7p634qAU?si=fGvyxHp_cayuw5xa

Everyone's trying too hard to stand out, but honestly the first one would stand out more today, despite being a still image!

My thoughts exactly. Apple could probably go viral with the original style of ad today.

I'm not sure it is valid to use the first ad ever as a basis for comparison. At this time it was a novelty to even have a television – of course an incredibly basic ad would work. And how much do you think they had to pay for an ad on a very new technology? I doubt much.

Wow, I haven't watched any ads for a while and that was pretty jarring.

The article did not do it for you. Do not apologize and thanks for sharing why he did not do it for you. It did not do it for me neither, for other reasons (I don't care that much about code, as a non-coder)

it's okay !

Thanks for taking the time to respond. Where I come from, apologies are a dime a dozen.

It's a bit more than it not doing it for me. I'm a bit tired of "AI and coding" takes over the past few years.

You are right. I don't have to agree and I don't have to be quiet about it. But it's going to be okay.

...We are going to have to fight against it at some point, will we ?

Not aiming at you specifically, but I am tired of seeing shitty behaviour that is dismissed as best as incompetence. I do not want to believe someone becomes the CEO of one of the strongest organization on earth without a strategy sixth sense. So, why would he be shoving AI everywhere ? What does he know that we don't about it ? Is it just plan surveillance ?

I think Hanlon‘s razor becomes a lot weaker the more the offender has to gain from their action.

Nadella is doing his job of shareholder value maximization quite well.