Comment on “You heard wrong” - users brutually reject Microsoft's "Copilot for work" in Edge and Windows 11
ignirtoq@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
AI is going to destroy a lot of software companies in a way I haven’t seen talked about yet: it will give CEOs exactly what they ask for.
Before you jump in with “AI produces garbage and isn’t reliable by design,” let me say I agree with you 100%, but for the sake of argument, assume for a moment it could produce a high quality product.
Once a company gets large enough, very often the CEO gets completely removed from how their company actually works. I know I’ve worked at several companies where the job of my boss was to shield me from corporate nonsense so I could make an actually good product. If I and/or my boss were replaced with AI that actually followed the corporate nonsense, the company would go belly-up quite quickly.
I think many CEOs are looking to replace huge fleets of workers with AI they can directly prompt. Even if it worked flawlessly, since they don’t know how their products actually bring value to their customers, they will speed-run torpedoing their company’s place in the market by their own ignorance, ego, and overconfidence.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yup. Think we’re going to go through a technological dark age for a bit, but hopefully non-shit companies will rise from the ashes. That or I’m gonna have to get used to FOSS everything.
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The only real option
Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the way. I switched from w11 to Ubuntu recently (using it was like breathing fresh air after being in a traffic jam), and today I switched from excel to libre calc and my thought though was like, oh shit, almost every functionality I use regularly is just visible on the toolbars at the top. Neat.
In excel I usually have to fucking web search where functionality is.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I want to switch but everything is such a fucking fight on Linux. I’ve spent probably 5 hours trying to get an FPV radio to work and another 40 minutes just trying to install stepmania. Running into walls everywhere.
mika_mika@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There will be mainstream adoption of Open Source Software but you’re dreaming if you think it will remain free. Marketing alone to get the masses to adopt these options will have a cost that people will be paying for.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Free as in “Freedom”. not free as in “Beer”.
Not charging money for your product had NEVER been a requirement in open source. Most people just give out away and get their money from elsewhere because theoretically someone could just download the source code and compile it themselves.