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Google did the same bullshit on Android.

With Google Assistant (old assistant) I could say "Hey Google, play daft punk" and it would start playing Daft Punk on Spotify.

With Gemini (new assistant) it says "sorry I cannot play music, but here are links to services where you can find Daft Punk albums".

Fortunately at the moment you can still toggle between them. I guess not for long though.

This breaks down when someone goes on holiday to Greece for a week, and the RTT over the airbnb wifi is 5 seconds.

Optimistic updates on the frontend are probably simpler too.

I think it's more a consequence of pushing for the biggest valuation/IPO. Rumoured profits on inference are north of 70%.

Taking SpaceX as an example, they have increased prices across all their consumer products over the past six months. But they definitely aren't short on money with Alphabet and Anthropic combined paying them over $2 billion per month.

Microsoft/GitHub lost out here as they were just repacking other people's products.

Reolink has always been like that, but at least they aren't a random no-name brand that could disappear at any minute.

Don't forget the fan controllers to try to make it silent and the neon lights. I still have that machine at my parents house, used it a couple of years ago to rip all my teenage CDs to digital formats.

Netflix has the same problem. Downloaded some TV shows for my daughter to watch while we were travelling. Worked fine on the plane, arrived to the hotel, connected to WiFi "This content is not available in your location". Ok, disconnect, don't need wifi. Same message, "This content is not available in your location".

My agent has access to my email, my messages, my work, my finances, my life. But thank god it doesn't have access to root on my machine.

> we like all the dopamine hijacking garbage

I basically don't use Facebook any more because of this. Opening the app shows me the most sensationalist, fearmongering and outrage bait content they can find. It's worse than news channels (I haven't watched TV for 20 years). I have auto play turned off, and every few months the setting gets turned back on.

The first few posts I see scrolling through:

- US adds mandatory tips ahead of world cup.

- Woman dies after being hit by Audi in city center.

- There was a huge queue for women's toilets at a tech conference.

- 50% off mattresses.

- Some influencer I don't follow bought 20 rolls of 3M tape from Lidl.

Do I still have friends, do they still post stuff? I only see them in the reels/stories section at the top.

The only reason why I still have Facebook is because of groups. It's the main 'groups' tool people use in my country, so there are various local groups I am part of.

This also perfectly describes the career change from software engineer to engineering manager.

Instead of solving things yourself, you need to learn how to describe them in a way others can solve them. Otherwise you will just be fighting the instinct to just do it yourself.

Better to outsource, then if something goes wrong, the execs don't have to take the blame themselves.

There are enough big banks in Europe that want to use AI, but almost all of them have very terrible software engineering (sorry to anyone who works there), so it's not like they are going to spin up their own cluster on top of open source models. If Mistral can filll this spot (provider and consultant) it could be a big win for them. Then repeat with other similar industries and governments in Europe.

This is why they are pushing more for non-tech folks to use their products with desktop apps. They are not going to switch on a whim.