Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 5hInviting Carmen Sandiego back to your place, mixing some cocktails, dropping the needle on the new Rockapella album… 2346
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 6h"Scheduling a doctor's appointment and figure out the bill" is a problem that could have been solved decades ago in a functional health care system with a decent website. 2230
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 6h"2026!" Even the shitball chatbot that made the image can't believe you can still fool people this easily 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 6hA tech product that trains its users to drink piss and like it is a bit too on the nose. Punch it up and have it back to me by the end of the day. 110
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 6hAi: it's what piss drinkers use to give themselves terminal psychosis when they're not drinking piss 121
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 12hI know it sounds crazy but what if money laundering was an illegal crime that people got punished for 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 12h“We spent $500 billion on a chatbot that can tell you how many Instagram followers you have, and can recommend you ask them what kind of posts to make when you’re out of ideas.” Okay Mark, sounds good, I think it’s time to go to your apocalypse bunker to stew in your own filth till the end of time 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 29/09/2026I can think of a few things that would clear up that uncertainty 010
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 28/09/2026The only policy that needs to be enforced is the government putting executives in jail for the crimes their companies are committing. That will put an end to the “rogue Ai” problem yesterday. 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 28/09/2026*tents fingers* What if we monitor our products? Or enforce policies? 100
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 28/09/2026Buddy, if you think blowing goats isn’t a human characteristic then I don’t know what to tell you 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 27/09/2026(explaining to my partners why our business that I managed is closing) According to my estimates, this shouldn’t be happening. 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 27/09/2026The thing about being a business is that you actually don’t have to “estimate” your productivity, there are math problems that do that for you 100
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 27/09/2026Oh you use Ai for search? Internet search? The problem we solved three decades ago? The task at which I have a nearly 100% lifetime success rate? Please, tell me more 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 27/09/2026In a real tech industry in a real economy “chatbot that can read credit card statements” is something you come up with in a lab before spending a year or more figuring out how to turn it into an actual product that’s useful, not the product itself 010
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 27/09/2026men will literally spend two trillion dollars on shitty, half-baked software before looking at their credit card statements 220
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 27/09/2026Not only have I never heard this song, I didn’t know “Billboard music charts” were still a thing 020
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 26/09/2026Once everyone gets here, we’ll know for sure, but people will probably be in and out over the course of the next three hours. That’s okay though, because we can all open separate tabs to make it easier for you. 110
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 26/09/2026DOCTOR: You’ll love it, always a great show. Except you can’t take that iced coffee into the theater with you, the clown doesn’t allow that. ME: But Doctor… I am Pagliacci. 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 25/09/2026Funny how all these guys who tell us Ai is inevitable are never able to identify an actual use case, just that "everybody should use it." His only argument in favor of using Ai is that CGI exists! 010
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 24/09/2026I’m okay with this as long as we can all agree that “blows goats” is the exception to the rule 100
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 23/09/2026Dynamite “works” but I wouldn’t put it in charge of my landscaping. 120
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 23/09/2026Feedback on drafts and dynamic thumbnails: the Future we were promised 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 23/09/2026texting my robot 300 times a day to see how my life is going 010
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 23/09/2026Except also don’t ask it to solve problems, or make stuff work right. It can’t do that. It’s not designed that way. Too powerful. 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 23/09/2026In the Future, we will all have personal, computerized assistants that can meet every need and fulfill any desire, but will also spend a lot of time haggling with other computerized assistants over the price of ceramic bowls and assorted knickknacks. 100
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 22/09/2026You'll never have to wait on hold with the dentist’s office ever again, or pay too much for ceramics, and all we ask in exchange is you only get electricity 3 days a week, all your groceries cost twice as much, and you have to live next door to a warehouse that sounds like a bonesaw testing facility 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 22/09/2026I found a twenty on the way to junior high decades ago that I still feel a little paranoid about 050
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 22/09/2026"the most useful A.I. app I had ever used." Yeah, that's probably true, and it fucking sucks! It does a bad job and takes more time than it saves. All of this shit sucks and for some reason nobody can say that. Open your capitalOne app, it takes three minutes a month 100
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 22/09/2026solving the inflation crisis by telling everyone in the country to ask their chatbot "how to pay less for stuff" 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 22/09/2026It feels like this is the baaah-wooooosh moment for Metastatic.klipy.comFlushing a Toilet HandleAlt: Flushing a Toilet Handle 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 22/09/2026what is this supposed to be? what are we even doing here? When does the Future of the Economy start?? 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 22/09/2026bro, just like check your credit card statement occasionally 100
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 22/09/2026This is a problem that a functioning healthcare system with a halfway decent website could have solved 20 years ago. 100
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 22/09/2026genuinely wracking my brain on how the "having health insurance" scam works 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 21/09/2026Third headline I’ve seen about quantum computing in a week. We’re already moving on to the next Hype Tech. The Ai boom is officially over. 000
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 20/09/2026The situation is quickly devolving in the world of Podcast Awards. 011
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 20/09/2026It says here that’s the only way to finish a season, to get to the end 001
Robb Witmer @robbwitmer.info · 20/09/2026(looks up from ancient tome, takes off glasses) According to this, every season comes down to the final week 100