Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 This is beautiful. I'm so happy so see something like this. 🥹
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 Holy shit. A dream come true...
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Anyway. This is why I’m getting into Meshcore. 🤪
If you're facing a large region with unstable internet you might want to check out 802.11ah HaLow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
It's using the same unlicensed 900Mhz band as meshcore, but carries IP traffic at tens to hundreds of megabit over a kilometer or two using omnidirectional antennas.
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If you're facing a large region with unstable internet you might want to check out 802.11ah HaLow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ah
It's using the same unlicensed 900Mhz band as meshcore, but carries IP traffic at tens to hundreds of megabit over a kilometer or two using omnidirectional antennas.
@alienghic interesting. Thank you. I’ll try to get up to speed

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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
If you feel comfortable sharing, where is "local"? One of my kids is an unemployed entry level engineer.
Edit: Oh, Puerto Rico. I'll suggest it to him.
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If you feel comfortable sharing, where is "local"? One of my kids is an unemployed entry level engineer.
Edit: Oh, Puerto Rico. I'll suggest it to him.
@firebreathingduck Puerto Rico.
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
Ability to do the job without AI is a fundamental skill.
The ability to use AI to help you do the job more quickly and more effectively is also an increasingly useful skill.
But without the fundamental skill you're just shoveling slop.
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 @howtophil this is one of 4 main points on the draft website for a small business I’m trying to set up (reviewing financial and governance documents and providing an overview).
I will *never* use AI for something like that.
I do not understand the risk assessment (or lack thereof) of the whole AI using market, let alone the critical ethical issues on so many fronts.
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 "the inevitable future"
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 @whitequark the world is healing 🥺
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Two things I’ve noticed about local businesses souring on GenAI:
First one is a car insurance TV ad showing one of these phone systems mishearing a request for car assistance repeatedly and messaging that they will always have a human work with you.
The second one is this. Local software development job ad for entry level engineers:
@Jdm2 At Cambridge station, a couple of months back, I saw an ad for a bank promising that they didn't use AI to handle calls and that you'd always be able to talk to a human.
They were fairly up market, but that helps push the perception that chatbots are a sign of a cheap / low-quality brand, which is an association I'm very happy for people to build.
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