The thing most companies are missing is to design the AI experience. What happens when it fails? Are we making options available for those who want a standard experience? Do we even have an elegant feedback loop to mark when it fails? Are we accounting for different pitches and accents? How about speech impediments?

I’m a designer focusing on AI, but a lot of companies haven’t even realized they need a designer for this. It’s like we’re the conscience of tech, and listened to about as often.

We could always go back to html chats. Hotelchat, Webmaze…

Communist West Germany? You mean East Germany?

Because I lived there when the Wall came down, and I can tell you based on the huge influx of Eastern Germans who had floorboards you could see through that quality was not a priority.

I think it’s more that they are trying to solve the problem by changing the dev team processes, when the biggest factor of success is developing the RIGHT thing. But since most tech managers have risen up from the ranks of devs, and they have a hard time understanding that other people have valuable skills they don’t, they have no idea how to hire good designers and refuse to listen to them when they happen to get one.

Let me put it this way, with an imperfect analogy. If you poison the water supply, it doesn’t matter how many people drink from it. They all die.

In school. But I’m sure you could gather the essentials from the internet.

That’s not how any of this works. Did you never take reproductive anatomy?

Wilbur was the pig. Babe is a different movie.

Computers have been beating humans at basic tasks since the beginning. Isn’t that kind of the point?

Horse butts are kind of cute. Maybe a baboon butt?

I’m in less than half your size and am two floors away from my washer. Not everyone has a nicely designed home.

That said, I generally buy the simplest appliances I can.

Do you take your bribes in homemade baked goods?

I liked the idea of Beehaw, but it ended up being rather like an HOA. You weren’t allowed to ever disagree, no matter how gently, because it “wasn’t nice.” They ironically tried to reduce bullying by bullying people.

Ended up with a bunch of Karens policing each other, so I think that’s a win for all.

I use it exclusively. No Bluetooth headphones for me.

So much happiness in this little sound.

https://youtu.be/6iCPIUGnHQ8?si=3HL_hsn34getR53x

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This is a great point for the vast majority of opinions. I have an aunt who’s a flaming, angry conservative. She and her husband lost their jobs because of Obama tax increases and he now works as a flunky for his brother.

I understand where she’s coming from because I listened. Didn’t stop me from blocking her eventually, though. One must limit the amount of toxicity one sees on a daily basis.

Trying to feel superior while using a base and repetitive vocabulary, to boot.

No. Because of what can sometimes be found in the meat.

As a former employee, there’s a reason for that.