Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Bosses told techies, put AI in our product! So everyone put in chatbots, but users hated them and didn't use them, so back to the drawing board. What else can it do? Well, it can abbreviate. Can it do that well? Don't worry about it 4723
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And so every product got the least thoughtful, most low-hanging-fruit implementation of this bullshit bolted awkwardly onto it - sometimes more than once! Google Maps has THREE fucking AI summaries on its location card, probably because no one working on Maps uses Maps.4:48 PM · Oct 9, 2026 47011
Mairead⁷⦿☰☲ @maireadeire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialthis tech has ZERO ability to separate satire/sarcasm/etc from facts in all the stuff it scraped. I mean, lubalin's 1 min song using the lyrics of a fb exchange abt a lady who says her horse is 15,000lbs is now a "fact" this tech utilizes 041
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And every instance of this unnecessary summary feature is another incentive for users not to bother reading the underlying information, and we all collectively get one notch stupider as a society 1262
Melissa DuVant @melissaduvant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialoh god, so many issue ticket summaries that are kinda-sorta right but missing key parts - and that's of stuff that's only a few dozen comments, tops, so reading it only takes a few minutes! 020
cameron tonkinwise @camerontw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.socialFollows the history of plastic perfectly – quite amazing technoscience product, but experienced as awful, so turns into inescapable bags and wrap until infrastructural to all supply chains 231
