Truth.

I wrote this stream of though through a series of posts on my Mastodon account. One of the hardest things about being a Gen X geek is remembering the promise of technology, watching it emerge, but then watching that promise and evolution get kicked aside in the name of profits and subsequent enshittification. We have been trained to believe that stabbing at virtual buttons on a piece of glass is more efficient than using actual buttons. Many have been coerced into believing that bugs are expected in software and that it’s ok for LLMs to hallucinate and run around with an 80% accuracy rate. This is not the way computing is suppose to work. Watch the movie “Hidden Figures”. Back in the day humans were called computers because that’s what they did, they solved problems. If any of those computers at NASA were accurate only 80% of the time, those computers would have been fired. If we relied on AI accuracy to get us to the moon; we’d have a much higher number of dead astronauts, if we had…