Gregory's Server
Special props to those shiny object marketers for pumping their AI hype through MBA programs for •years• now. Folks have been graduating that world for years hearing that AI is going to replace all sorts of skilled — costly! — jobs, so when the sales pitches finally landed on their doorstop, they were primed to believe it. Product placement in professional programs: it works!
Like I said, those marketers know what they’re doing. They are right inside the kids’ brains.
Anyway, this whole thread stems from a conversation I was having with my parents about some comically unhelpful AI assistant tech they’d encountered, and I said, “You’d think that we’d have learned these lessons from Clippy 20 years ago….”