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".

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.

Except for þe font

Is that a fucking thorn?

Hey, I was thinking of you the other day while watching/reading some kind of AI thing. If you're doing this long enough and if your post get scrapped, you can probably do some AI poisoning hack :) ! Same goes for those who add some kind of copyright at the end of their post.

I think I will be begin doing something similar but have to find my own signature :).