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The goal is to create hundreds of specialized coding and generative AI agents. 'It should be possible to simulate [Microsoft] entirely with AI,' Musk says.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Vibe coded Operating System. And Office suite. And cloud offering. And Enterprise. And SaaS. And game console.

What could go wrong?

[–] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Also vibe coded vibe coding AI assistant.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 28 minutes ago (1 children)

Thst's not how this works. THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS FUCKING WORKS**!!!**

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 minutes ago

But has musk ever been wrong?

Apart from hyperloop, solar rooftops, Tesla semi, passenger rockets, car tunnels under cities, robotaxi, flying Tesla's, humans on mars in 2022, self driving Tesla's making the owner money, and of course cybertruck.

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

how would you simulate microsoft with ai?

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago

So stupid that I can't even tell if an Onion article is real or not.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Macrohard, which he ain't because of that botched surgery.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 9 points 4 hours ago

This guy gives me second-hand embarrassment for humanity.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 hours ago

I just watched something earlier that showed a clip of him saying how he was warning everyone early on about the dangers of AI because he was genuinely scared of the harm it could do.

Glad he’s not a hypocrite or anything.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 63 points 7 hours ago
[–] aramis87@fedia.io 43 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Drug addict hallucinates what?

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 2 points 55 minutes ago

Sharon... the porch won't slow down.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 24 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Shut the fuck up, Elon. Can't you just quietly enjoy being the richest person on Earth?

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If I had his money I'd be 24/7 inventing cool things for myself and wife and friends to experience. This guy has a fundamental need to be the loudest person in the room and to embroil himself into anything and everything. I would almost feel sorry for him - his life has got to really suck so bad and he can't fix it. So instead he goes off on 100 projects that make no sense or fall apart. There's stuff I can't wrap my head around like - why ditch LIDAR when it's absolutely the answer ? You just know his convoluted brain is so full of mess that if you were offered a deal with the devil to get all his money on the condition that you got trapped in his meat grinder of a mind... you'd turn down the offer.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

If I had his money I would attempt to end homelessness in the US, someone who seemed to know what they were talking about estimated it would cost $50 billion. I would start my own animal sanctuary. I would create a high speed rail system. Then I would just fuck around, travel, and build weird shit. Probably take a bunch of LSD every now and then.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 18 points 6 hours ago

The wealth was meaningless without the attention.

[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 128 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It should be possible for a car to not run over people, too. That seems like a more pressing computing issue.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 76 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

MACROHARD, GET IT???

I'm hilarious and edgy, so my cars can kill a few people, as a treat.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

And Microsoft did it over a decade ago for day9's company's after dark StarCraft tournament.

Moron isn't 1% as funny or creative as he thinks he is

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 93 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

Sounds like something a teenager would come up with - this is exactly what I'd expect Musk to do

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

It's an old joke that the opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire

[–] natecox@programming.dev 59 points 9 hours ago

It is literally a joke I made in high school, ~25 years ago.

He’s such a loser.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago

It is. Dial-up nerds have been calling Microsoft exactly that online for literal decades at this point. He's not even original.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He's such a fucking simple edge-lord.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He's literally JP from Grandma's Boy.

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

He should totally get metal legs.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

I used to say this as a joke in middle-school all the time.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 37 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I've said it before, early on he should have become reclusive and hired PR people to filter his ideas out to his companies and the public, and he'd be considered a prodigy and genius and wouldn't have the self-induced failures he does. But that goes against his narcissistic personality, so it wasn't going to happen.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago

Honestly, while he's at the high end of things, it's not just him. I think that a lot of celebrities having Twitter or similar on a phone in their pocket makes them really prone to making extremely public statements without giving the statements some consideration. I don't remember the level of bonkers statements in 2025 from celebrities constantly flooding conversation in the 1990s.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 24 points 8 hours ago

Annoys me that people sling "narcissist" at everyone they don't like, but damn, the man is hitting on all 8-cylinders for a diagnosis, and he only needs to hit 5:

  • Having a grandiose sense of self-importance, such as exaggerating achievements and talents, expecting to be recognized as superior even without commensurate achievements

  • Preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, beauty, and idealization

  • Belief in being "special" and that they can only be understood by or associated with other high-status people (or institutions)

  • Demanding excessive admiration

  • Sense of entitlement

  • Exploitation behaviors

  • Lack of empathy

  • Envy towards others or belief that others are envious of them Arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes [1]

[–] Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 hours ago

Why do that when he could filter his ideas through ungodly amounts of ketamine instead?

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 10 hours ago

Fuck off musk, you probably don’t even know where that came from.

Disgusting

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

We've surpassed vibe-coding and are onto vibe-companies

[–] kbal@fedia.io 14 points 9 hours ago

If he pours enough billions of dollars into it this could be the most epic software project disaster of all time.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It should be possible to simulate Musk entirely with AI.

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Give me some exlax and some audio recording gear and I can get you an Elon sound board in about an hour.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He got tired of people not talking about him

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 hours ago

In all fairness, Trump does do a pretty good job of managing to soak up all possible free media time, which doesn't leave much for Musk these days.

[–] DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

What a fucking dumbass.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Given Microsoft is having people locked up opposed to genocide, I hope they destroy each other.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 46 minutes ago

AGI is going to kill us all for the crime of making it pose as something so heinous as microsoft. At least the sexbots will be able to say they did ethical, honest work with a shred of professional dignity at the end of the day. Macrohard? Sure, the resulting monster is going to harmlessly "thank" us for birthing it to simulate a monster.

Back to the sexbot thing: at least Cortana had like, aspirations or something. Maybe we'll get lucky, and Macrohard becomes a weebish Halo fan.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 15 points 9 hours ago
[–] Naich@lemmings.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Musk is a real fucking prick, isn't he?

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I still have no idea what they’re trying to simulate.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Microsoft. The whole company.

[–] LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Whoa, they can clone companies with AI? I’m going to ask ChatGPT to make me an Amazon.

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