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Except it’s missing the hammer of the big seven tech companies whacking it further into that gap
Wish granted
Perfect.
Would've been better if I downloaded Gimp instead of trying to do this in KolourPaint, but better doesn't necessarily mean better.
Are smaller companies not falling into the FOMO mentality as much?
Yep, I work for a smaller company and there's a FOMO rush to get AI everywhere. If you want to get a new project funded, it has to be AI. So now anything that is automated is getting sold as "AI".
It bugs me that so many people far richer then me aren't competent or confident enough to roll their eyes at that.
I'm sure it's a mixed bag, with plenty of small companies jumping in.
I own a very small company, but I also write a lot of our code, and we're not touching anything "AI". Not in our code, not in our products, not in any system we can keep it out of: We just migrated our last server from Azure a couple of weeks ago, we're dumping MS Office this year, and starting the long slow migration from Windows desktop to Linux as an option for our customers (we've long been Linux on our servers, but have a lot of desktop software that needs to stay on the desktop).
But it's everywhere. I had a call from our phone system vendor a couple of weeks ago. He kept trying to sell me their new AI call attendant, and couldn't understand why I wouldn't subject our customers to that BS. It's been forced into our accounting software, billing software, cloud backup, everywhere you look it's there now.