Old MacDonald outsourced his farm, AI, AI. Oh.

No, I don't want AI added to every product, service and website. No, I do not want to have to shell out for 20 different subscriptions because your product has a specific esoteric LLM that I have to pay separately for just because it can integrate with your software better. AI is a tool, it is not a solution. It doesn't fix the problems in your application, it just burns the world while it uses its baked-in polyfills to get around your bad UI. Too many apps push you to use their AI to help you find information and to "get in touch" - how about you have better navigation, sign-posting and UX so people can find it themselves without relying on some half-baked chatbot claiming to have natural language processing? I was speaking with an accessibility consultant a while ago and he was bemoaning those widgets people can add to their website to "improve" accessibility. He was saying that, if he needed bigger text or different contrast, he would have his own tool to do it. You wouldn't expect…