Oh they’re making me addicted alright. I can’t stop installing Linux on things. Its like a new vice for my devices
Today i tried to unbind the windows key from a computer because it was getting annoying. Tutorials pointed to the registry. I found nothing but ended up understanding why some keyboards directly have locks on that stupid key
In the times we live , where sociopath billionares seem to reign, this is no surprising
Out of touch execs still chasing metrics instead of focusing on quality. Their desperation betrays the awareness that an end is near.
Sadly, the strategy tends to work. Just like slop and clickbait by any sane world should not be rewarded, it rakes it in for the people who do it.
I can’t fault them for this business plan. It has worked for the opioid business professionals time and time again, for centuries!
Scout will only be available for MS 365 customers.
Phew!
Have they tried making it better, I feel like I’m more likely to become addicted to it if it was good.
We’re going to MAKE people ADDICTED by
making a REALLY Good Product!SOLVING annoying Problems!TREATING Customers respectfully!FORCING ourselves Onto people like Donald Trump on Little Girls!Ha ha ha, no Microslop !
If it’s agentic it’s going to burn through tokens even faster, so what’s their business model?
Explains why they want you to think it’s also a person.
That will really help all those lawsuits from people who got addicted to that thingy.
By taking away any other options?
Be like google, make search so shitty and monetized the only thing left is AI results.
When you ask an LLM to name itself, “Scout” is a very common name for it to come up with. That and “echo”.
I used the LLM to make the LLM
BREAKING - Companies want customers to get addicted to their products!!!1
