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by tartoran 6 days ago
Microsoft can't learn a thing from their own history. Perhaps if they made a product that was useful and not deceiving their users they'd have more success. It seems they aren't capable of that anymore.
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They're those guys that spend hundreds of hours in pickup artist courses rather than being a person people would like to be with, yeah.
They are also just bad at almost everything they do. I'd really be worried if a competent company was trying to make people addicted.

Although maybe it doesn't take much, given that it sounded at one point like the Microsoft execs were addicted already.

I'd really be worried if a competent company was trying to make people addicted. This is absolutely a thing. Social media, mobile games, LLMs, tobacco.
Oh yes sorry. I meant addicted to AI. No doubt they are, though, anyway.
> They are also just bad at almost everything they do

Huh? Have you forgotten Clippy, the first AI agent?

/s

Making a useful product is far more difficult than tapping into our base desires as human beings. Microsoft hasn't been an innovative company in a long time and that's by design.
That’s always been Microsoft in a nutshell though. They constantly stumble around never making anything truly great but still doing a good enough job to keep their existing customers.
Original builders are all gone so they are just skiing on what they have built. And this the result.