I'm probably underestimating the gullibility of the average J6P Konsumer, but this Hard Sell of all the GREAT things having your own Personal AI Agent will do for you seems to me like something I neither need or even WANT.

Do I want an Agent to book my Travel Plans?  I never used travel agents even when they were people.  Do I want an Agent to respond to my emails and do my online banking?  I'm supposed to TRUST one of these cyber secretaries with my Login info and Passwords?

What % of the population leads such a bizzy Calendar-Filling life that they need a Personal Assisstant, either the traditional kind that you can also fuck on your bizness trips or the new AI kind that just talks dirty to you?  I think the folks designing these Aps for AI confuse things THEY want to go with their  7 figure salary and what your average J6P who these days can afford maybe 1 vacation every 5 years wants.

If this is what AI enthusiasts think will bring in the ROI to justify a $10T buildout, I think they will be sadly disappointed.

RE

TDoS Family Photo. 😀



RE

Quoteclassic Appalalchian 'holler,

Exactly what a bot would do, fall back on the script.  Less than 1000 words can contain 'everything you have 'revealed' about yourself from day one.

And that is being generous, I take it back  500 words.

Quote from: RE on Oct 03, 2026, 10:29 AM

Quote from: TDoS on Oct 03, 2026, 07:47 AMI have no evil intent.

It's not Intentional, it's Inbred.

RE

Well, while I admit to having been raised in the midst of the classic Appalalchian 'holler, I know who both parents were, and they weren't related. So no, no inbreeding that I know of going back at least 3 generations. And by then those folks were mixed eastern european and Irish, so unlikely any inbreeding that far back either.

And again, assigning "evil intent" to someone who just studies, postulates, does the science and builds econometric models that benefitted by being right in the exact moment when the peak oilers were at their apex...hey....it is only fair I can kick back and coast on my well earned professional reputation at this point.

Quote from: K-Dog on Oct 03, 2026, 09:05 AMTHIS PAGE, look at the top of this pay and refresh a few times.  There are only a few banners in rotation, 4 or 5.  And you have watched this page load at least 100 times.

GOT IT!!! Well there you have it. I hit one of these forum pages and go right to the text. Never even noticed that Surly reference at all.

I HAVE watched the page load more than 100 times....I just don't pay any attention to the top. Why would I? My intent is simple...."are there any new posts AFTER my last one". As there are only the 3 of us kicking around, anything other than that is irrelevant. I've got reddit for full-scale wide band doom of all kinds, including Surly's aggregation.

Quote from: K_DogSo it appears you are a robot who just busted yourself.  No tokens for you.

Good to know! You are not real.

Then I am NOT the D. Jarvie that RE wants to pretend I am? QUICK! SOMEONE TELL ALL THE SCIENCE RAGS THEY'VE BEEN SPOOFED BY A BOT! DECADES AGO EVEN!

It's so reassuring that we have such compassionate & caring people leading the charge into the Brave New World of an AI driven society looking out for the best interests of Humanity. 🙄



RE

Damn, music to code by 😀

Same reason the FSoA hasn't gone bankrupt yet.  Unlimited credit.

The Saudis are sending 100,000 Grunts to take the coast back from the Houthis.  That's a mighty big molehill.

RE

Quote from: TDoS on Oct 03, 2026, 07:47 AMI have no evil intent.

It's not Intentional, it's Inbred.


RE

Quote from: TDoS on Oct 03, 2026, 07:47 AMAs for Surly, I pay no attention to your front page.

There you go, I really don't have to argue with you, you trip over yourself all the time.  Really, all I have to do is wait.

THIS PAGE, look at the top of this pay and refresh a few times.  There are only a few banners in rotation, 4 or 5.  And you have watched this page load at least 100 times.

So it appears you are a robot who just busted yourself.  No tokens for you.

Good to know! You are not real.




NOTE TO ALL READERS, DO NOT USE THESE THINGS.  They are 50% spyware and 50% code and they may be altogether too good at spending your money for you.

I am writing one from scratch without any spyware and the process involves reverse engineering a few agent codebases.  It will of course run on the video cards only.  No data centers.  I have been crunching on the code for days.

And oh my stars what I have seen.

* As an FYI feature I will track input and output token count and 'charge' myself at the lowest going rate. ($2 for a million input and $12 for a million output tokens.)  Then on the Open Paw agent dashboard I will be able to see the money I am not having to pay our royal born tech overlords.