elephantium

Many US states have sales tax, but I don't think it counts as VAT.

Eh, I don't think it's an outright scam, rather "just" a bad investment / overhype. The language model programs do have some real uses, after all.

I fail to see how AI can replace any given entry-level SE

You don't "get it"?

AI is making senior software engineers more productive so they don’t need to hire more devs

Yes, I think you do.

I largely look at this as leadership using AI hype as an excuse to cut staff regardless of actual productivity. The house of cards hasn't come down quite yet.

It doesn't have to be a good implementation, it only has to be good enough for a demo to get the C-suite saying "Oh, slap a chatbot on there and then fire half the department that handles this now".

AI isn't destroying any jobs. Greedy "leaders" in the C-suite are cutting jobs using AI as an excuse.

It's a sick joke at our expense.

Joke's on them, my phone only cost $300

People at my office have a bot attend meetings. AFAIK it does speech recognition and generates notes from the meeting. Sembly maybe? I'd have to look again to be sure.

Need?

Seems logical. Glue, gluant, sticky.

I hadn't expected a dictionary search to come up empty, though.

What is gluant? I couldn't find it in the dictionary.

The technology isn't there to accurately assess damage. It's there to give Hertz an excuse to charge you extra money. It's working exactly as the ghouls in the C-suite like.

It's less about technology and more about evading accountability, I'd say. This would be a sort of cyberpunk version of "How dare you accuse the baron's son of tipping your cows?! He's a fine upstanding young man, so of course these accusations are groundless."