Took a while to find the phrase that @pluralistic used recently that I really liked that summed up this situation.

Reverse-centaur

This article screams that Burger King would really just prefer to get rid of the squishy human part of their system. The next best thing... make that squishy human subservient to some lines of code that effectively tells them to "smile more".

Burger King AI bot will check up on staffs' please and thank yous - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk2zygg0k3o

@Viss @randahl If those servers are still there, they'll likely need therapy by now.

@Viss @randahl I blame you for all the problems.

@nixCraft If AWS managed to destroy its dominance in the Cloud hosting market purely because it was trying to chase something around AI... well... let's just say I'm sure there's a German word for it.

@xgranade @hacks4pancakes It's impossible to tell whether the quantum computing people are actually in the files or passing through the files without first observation and destroying the potential for them to be both simultaneously.

@randahl 2026 is really turning out to be the "find out" stage of the USA's decision to fuck around with Trump for another term.