Elon Musk to Take on Microsoft With 'Macrohard'

https://www.pcmag.com/news/elon-musk-to-take-on-microsoft-with-macrohard

The goal is to create hundreds of specialized coding and generative AI agents. 'It should be possible to simulate [Microsoft] entirely with AI,' Musk says.

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hydrashok@sh.itjust.works · 210 pts · 357d (8 replies)

It should be possible for a car to not run over people, too. That seems like a more pressing computing issue.

fartographer@lemmy.world · 133 pts · 357d (4 replies)

MACROHARD, GET IT???

I'm hilarious and edgy, so my cars can kill a few people, as a treat.

Donjuanme@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 357d (3 replies)

And Microsoft did it over a decade ago for day9's company's after dark StarCraft tournament.

Moron isn't 1% as funny or creative as he thinks he is

plyth@feddit.org · -8 pts · 357d (2 replies)

Difference is that he does the things everybody else just thinks.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 357d

intrusive thoughts don't count as everybody else thinking it, except on solipsist saturdays

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 356d

Difference is he can afford to do the stupid shit some of us joke about doing.

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 357d (1 reply)

But just think of what we learned for the people who are still alive!

sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io · 4 pts · 356d

The science gets done and the car's a lot of fun for the people who areeee still aliiiive 🎂

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 357d

it is possible, it's just that the tesla does a credit check of the person inside vs the people outside and only with that information chooses who to plow over

flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 150 pts · 357d (15 replies)

Sounds like something a teenager would come up with - this is exactly what I'd expect Musk to do

natecox@programming.dev · 103 pts · 357d (3 replies)
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plyth@feddit.org · 5 pts · 357d

Too early. Comedy is all about timing.

webhead@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Same lol. Macrohard Doors here we come!

YodaDaCoda@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 355d

Same! I made a MacroHard company that sold computer mice for a high school project.

gdog05@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 357d (3 replies)

He's such a fucking simple edge-lord.

onslaught545@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 357d (2 replies)

He's literally JP from Grandma's Boy.

gdog05@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 357d

He should totally get metal legs.

juliebean@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 357d

that is a very unflattering comparison for JP.

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 357d (1 reply)

It is. Dial-up nerds have been calling Microsoft exactly that online for literal decades at this point. He's not even original.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 357d

maybe he told the joke to his latest meat shield and the toddler, knowing how much money was on the line, chose to laugh

eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 357d (1 reply)

It's an old joke that the opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire

GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 8 pts · 357d

Haha, yeah that joke was pretty funny... back in 1993.

TommySoda@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 357d

I used to say this as a joke in middle-school all the time.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 357d

hes 12yo what you expect. his teslas models are are named after SEXY

RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 356d

Yes, for an actual fucking grown ass adult and a business leader, this is embarrassing as hell

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 123 pts · 357d

TheLowestStone@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 357d (16 replies)

For the love of god, just OD on ketamine already.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Why do bad Tesla fires only trap good people?

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 357d (10 replies)

I don't think that's possible. Ketamine is a great and safe drug with many medicinal purposes

mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 357d (2 replies)

It's absolutely possible if you're abusing it recreationally, especially if you start mixing it with who knows what else. The biggest risk is respiratory system just shutting off.

That's just an OD though, long term abuse like it's suspected by many that Musk is doing has a whole host of nasty symptoms that you can look up yourself.

Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 356d (1 reply)

I imagine he's dabbling in nootropics and whatever novel research chemicals his handlers come across.

Justas@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 353d

Not yet named synthetic cathinones is my second best bet on what does him in. The first one is some mystery shooter with loose connections to a foreign intelligence agency.

BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 356d (5 replies)

Accidental death is very much possible though, and has happened before. Drowning seems to be a particular risk here

scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 356d

He's also fighting with his Nazi bot and supposedly sleeps with a firearm handy. Honestly, odds are pretty good.

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 356d (2 replies)

But is Elon alone at any time? He travels with a very tight security detail. I am willing to bet there is always someone around him almost all the time, meaning if he does take a good hit of ketamine and the tiles on his bathroom won't slow down he won't drown. Someone will come to his aid.

Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 346d (1 reply)

Elon Musk will be alone until the day he dies. It doesn't matter how many people he pays to surround him.

He will always be alone.

He will never know a friend.

He should give up. Now.

He will always be alone.

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 346d

Correct in all the ways that count. But not physically alone, and the livelihood and career of the slave bodyguards he keeps will be negatively affected if they let him drown in his bathtub due to a ketamine OD.

Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 351d

Who doesn't like going for a swim when the K kicks in?

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 356d

hope hes taking coccaine as well, and you can OD on that.

vga@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 356d

Unfortunately dying from ketamine overdose is extremely rare.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 356d

He is already 95% cuntamine.

CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 356d

"Be the change you want to see ol in the world"

-Luigi

aramis87@fedia.io · 63 pts · 357d (2 replies)

Drug addict hallucinates what?

muffedtrims@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 357d (1 reply)

I'm in a hole

tatterdemalion@programming.dev · 14 pts · 357d

Sharon... the porch won't slow down.

mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 60 pts · 357d (11 replies)

I remember back when I was a kid it was hard to convince people that wealth and success was not a matter of being better, smarter, or harder working - as we were told - but rather almost entirely a matter of luck. Thankfully, Elon Musk has shown many people the light that I could not. Thank you, Elon

CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 357d (2 replies)

To be fair there is one personal trait that's really important to wealth and success, the willingness to walk over the bodies of your peers.

Valmond@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 357d

Zero empathy.

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 356d
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TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 357d (2 replies)

Too many people are still convinced that Elon's wealth is attained through his hardwork alone.

mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 357d

Yeah, although if Elon hasn't convinced them I can at least take solace in knowing there was probably no way to convince them anyways. Total lost causes

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 356d

he had good PR thats about it, he was totally sustained by OBAMA's bailout.

hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 357d (2 replies)

https://www.monbiot.com/2011/11/07/the-self-attribution-fallacy/

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. The claims that the ultra-rich 1% make for themselves – that they are possessed of unique intelligence or creativity or drive – are examples of the self-attribution fallacy.

mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Ahhh no no that's because they're in Africa and not America 😌

gramie@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 356d

That's discriminatory! Actually it's because they have dark skin. As a native South african, Musk knows this. Fortunately, he was able to immigrate in 1988 before things went bad. You silly

NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Yup. It is long past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 357d

Billionaires are just people with uncontrolled hoarding disorder, but instead of hoarding cats, or junk cars, or magazines, they hoard money. If they hoarded anything else, the authorities would step in and clean up the place and get them medication, but because it's money, they get celebrated as successful businesspeople, and get loads of more government cash shoveled at them.

Rhaedas@fedia.io · 55 pts · 357d (4 replies)

I've said it before, early on he should have become reclusive and hired PR people to filter his ideas out to his companies and the public, and he'd be considered a prodigy and genius and wouldn't have the self-induced failures he does. But that goes against his narcissistic personality, so it wasn't going to happen.

shalafi@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 357d

Annoys me that people sling "narcissist" at everyone they don't like, but damn, the man is hitting on all 8-cylinders for a diagnosis, and he only needs to hit 5:

  • Having a grandiose sense of self-importance, such as exaggerating achievements and talents, expecting to be recognized as superior even without commensurate achievements

  • Preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, beauty, and idealization

  • Belief in being "special" and that they can only be understood by or associated with other high-status people (or institutions)

  • Demanding excessive admiration

  • Sense of entitlement

  • Exploitation behaviors

  • Lack of empathy

  • Envy towards others or belief that others are envious of them Arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes [1]

Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 357d

Why do that when he could filter his ideas through ungodly amounts of ketamine instead?

tal@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 357d

Honestly, while he's at the high end of things, it's not just him. I think that a lot of celebrities having Twitter or similar on a phone in their pocket makes them really prone to making extremely public statements without giving the statements some consideration. I don't remember the level of bonkers statements in 2025 from celebrities constantly flooding conversation in the 1990s.

plyth@feddit.org · 2 pts · 357d

Who do you hire to filter that? Electric sports cars, reusable rockets, all silly ideas that would never make it. His wealth allows him to try his ideas without the restrictions that everybody else has. That's worth much more than his reputation.

He wants to go to mars. Solar cells and tunnel boring could be long-term buildups of knowledge.

If he is not cleverer than most then it's his recklessness that created his success. Bezos also got the rocket billions but he was not as successful, and many other billionaires and companies could have tried, too.

Even the nazi wave, it is cringe and evil, but it looks like he picked the successful side.

It's not Musk that has to adjust but the general population. If we want to be safed by technology we have to find another hero, or better, build that technology without one.

NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 356d (4 replies)

I’m so tired of this idiot ass fucking dystopia.

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 7 pts · 356d (3 replies)

I agree. Why can't we have a dystopia where we have neon gangs with wicked aesthetics that are armed with fully automatic firearms purchased from a vending machine outside a liquor store.

NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 356d (1 reply)

Batman Beyond really gave me unreasonable expectations.

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 2 pts · 354d

I was referring to cyberpunk 2077 style stuff. But I get you.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d

Honestly I've been hanging out with some Cajuns and it sounds like Louisiana is a few laws and aesthetic choices away from that

LiveLM@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 357d (7 replies)

Vibe coded Operating System. And Office suite. And cloud offering. And Enterprise. And SaaS. And game console.

What could go wrong?

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 357d (1 reply)

What could go wrong?

Seeing how Microsoft (and Windows 11 in particular) is doing lately, and how practically every single Windows update is breaking something important, a lot.

We've already got one vibe coded Windows. We don't need another one.

lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 357d

I actually think we do need more vibe-coded OSes. Linux marketshare won't climb up by itself!

CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Also vibe coded vibe coding AI assistant.

postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 357d

Vibes all the way down.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Honey, the spread sheet is saying 1 + 1 = 3!

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d

take out your USB-C, flip it upside down, plug it back in. how's the math now?

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 357d

All that junk code, what could go?

hactar42@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 357d (3 replies)

“In principle, given that software companies like Microsoft do not themselves manufacture any physical hardware, it should be possible to simulate them entirely with AI,” he added.

Ummm, is someone going to tell him about the Xbox, Surface devices, and the entire Azure infrastructure they built.

lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 357d (1 reply)

And the Zune. Don't forget the Zune!

hactar42@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 357d

I loved my Zune

Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 356d

Musk just announces this shit to look like he's doing something so the investors don't flee. If anything is actually delivered it will be forgettable and he will have moved on to the next thing he can hype.

It's that or he's trying to get Microsoft to give Grok a more prominent role on their platform and this is how he thinks he can active that.

How the stack of cards hasn't fallen down yet is head scratching and I'd love to know what business is actually using Grok for something serious.

ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 357d (6 replies)

Shut the fuck up, Elon. Can't you just quietly enjoy being the richest person on Earth?

tal@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 357d

The wealth was meaningless without the attention.

Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 357d (4 replies)

If I had his money I'd be 24/7 inventing cool things for myself and wife and friends to experience. This guy has a fundamental need to be the loudest person in the room and to embroil himself into anything and everything. I would almost feel sorry for him - his life has got to really suck so bad and he can't fix it. So instead he goes off on 100 projects that make no sense or fall apart. There's stuff I can't wrap my head around like - why ditch LIDAR when it's absolutely the answer ? You just know his convoluted brain is so full of mess that if you were offered a deal with the devil to get all his money on the condition that you got trapped in his meat grinder of a mind... you'd turn down the offer.

ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 357d (2 replies)

If I had his money I would attempt to end homelessness in the US, someone who seemed to know what they were talking about estimated it would cost $50 billion. I would start my own animal sanctuary. I would create a high speed rail system. Then I would just fuck around, travel, and build weird shit. Probably take a bunch of LSD every now and then.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 357d

50 billion over several years, not just in one year

plyth@feddit.org · 2 pts · 357d

Have you considered doing this backwards to end up as a billionaire who can donate his billions to charity?

Giving all homeless shelter and work would create a huge company.

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 356d
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kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Ah yes, i will wait for it while I am travelling in the hyperloop

"It's not that hard! I swear" (Elon)

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 356d

he uses shrooms and cocaine to be able to experience the hyperloop

LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 27 pts · 357d

Fuck off musk, you probably don’t even know where that came from.

Disgusting

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 357d

So stupid that I can't even tell if an Onion article is real or not.

ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 27 pts · 356d (1 reply)

I made that joke when I was 13 years old...

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 356d
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kbal@fedia.io · 22 pts · 357d (2 replies)

If he pours enough billions of dollars into it this could be the most epic software project disaster of all time.

mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 357d (1 reply)

We can only hope he blows ALL his money on it somehow. He seems almost stupid enough to pull it off

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 356d
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timewarp@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Given Microsoft is having people locked up opposed to genocide, I hope they destroy each other.

MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 357d

AGI is going to kill us all for the crime of making it pose as something so heinous as microsoft. At least the sexbots will be able to say they did ethical, honest work with a shred of professional dignity at the end of the day. Macrohard? Sure, the resulting monster is going to harmlessly "thank" us for birthing it to simulate a monster.

Back to the sexbot thing: at least Cortana had like, aspirations or something. Maybe we'll get lucky, and Macrohard becomes a weebish Halo fan.

tarknassus@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 356d (1 reply)

Good luck to Musk then. Was listening to a cybersec podcast on my morning dog walk and one of the stories was about the amount of security flaws that can be created with AI coding machines. Unless you're aware of the language, exploits, weaknesses etc. etc.

What a dumbass. Every time he opens his smarmy gob these days he makes himself seem dumber every time.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 356d

It's the drugs, the sycophants, and the power.

He's completely lost touch and has gone full megalomaniac.

"Oh, yes, chief, creating a giant bowl of cheese is so original, you're a genius", a sycophant.

"God. I'm a god", Musk.

"Yes, chief, you're a god", a sycophant.

"I'm so amazing that people think I'm a god", musk.

I think there's a touch of cognitive decline happening, too. Or like a serious brain injury.

PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 357d

I just watched something earlier that showed a clip of him saying how he was warning everyone early on about the dangers of AI because he was genuinely scared of the harm it could do.

Glad he’s not a hypocrite or anything.

finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 357d (1 reply)

And here I thought the Windows 11 enshitification couldn't get worse.

Nobody should ever trust anything Musk wants them to install on their devices.

GenosseFlosse@feddit.org · 6 pts · 356d

Don't worry, this is another bag of hot air like the hyper loop. Nothing will come out of it.

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 356d

Macrohard..the kind of joke that 11 year olds made on AOL in 1994

devolution@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 357d

Macrohard, which he ain't because of that botched surgery.

DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 357d
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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 18 pts · 357d (1 reply)

He got tired of people not talking about him

tal@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 357d

In all fairness, Trump does do a pretty good job of managing to soak up all possible free media time, which doesn't leave much for Musk these days.

theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 357d

We've surpassed vibe-coding and are onto vibe-companies

leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 357d (1 reply)

🤦‍♂️

He's been snorting ketamine again, hasn't he..?

DampSquid@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 357d

Always has been

tonytins@pawb.social · 16 pts · 357d

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 356d

Macrohard, another very funny joke from Elon's brilliant mind.

Mac@mander.xyz · 16 pts · 357d

This guy gives me second-hand embarrassment for humanity.

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 15 pts · 357d (2 replies)

IBM: Think
Apple: Think Different
Macrohard: Don't Think

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 356d (1 reply)

Nokia was nice too ngl.They even made a linux phone.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 356d

My beloved N900.
We still talk about you.

<3

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 357d (3 replies)

Thst's not how this works. THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS FUCKING WORKS**!!!**

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 357d (2 replies)

But has musk ever been wrong?

Apart from hyperloop, solar rooftops, Tesla semi, passenger rockets, car tunnels under cities, robotaxi, flying Tesla's, humans on mars in 2022, self driving Tesla's making the owner money, and of course cybertruck.

Pringles@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 357d (1 reply)

He probably can't even solve his kids name.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 357d

latest child's name is just a captcha and since he got the brain implant, he can't recognize them

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 357d (2 replies)

OMG HE'S SO FUNNY

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 357d

1980s jokes! What an original and innovative man!

jbk@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 357d

::: spoiler tw: cringe musk quote i am become meme :::

Bluewing@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 356d

Dude claims he can code. I want to see him personally make Doom run on a Tesla.

Naich@lemmings.world · 13 pts · 357d

Musk is a real fucking prick, isn't he?

quick_snail@feddit.nl · 13 pts · 357d

I think he is just upset that South Park didn't have a parody of him with a small dick, yet

frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 357d (1 reply)

It should be possible to simulate Musk entirely with AI.

MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 357d
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tfm@europe.pub · 11 pts · 356d

This is dumb on a different level

LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 357d (5 replies)

I still have no idea what they’re trying to simulate.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 357d (4 replies)

Microsoft. The whole company.

LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe · 15 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Whoa, they can clone companies with AI? I’m going to ask ChatGPT to make me an Amazon.

L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 357d

Just a simulation, with simulated board members and simulated hostile takeovers of competitor browsers.

uranibaba@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Is he planing on creating a an OS as well or just copy the office suite?

Cort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 357d

Yes. And also one drive, and Microsoft xbox, and git hub, and visual studio.

Totally realistic.

mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 356d (3 replies)

First thought: Well, usually i'd laugh, but it's microsoft, so this might actulally work

second thought: wait, Twitter also doesn't produce any hardware... why not start there?

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 356d (1 reply)

Wait until Musk comes forward with the Macrohard GamerX series of consoles, to play AI slop games.

ILikeTraaaains@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d

And the circuitry and QA is also done by AI.

arendjr@programming.dev · 2 pts · 355d

I can take this one: Because he doesn’t actually care about creating anything of value. If he truly believed in it, you’re right, Twitter or even Tesla’s software engineers would be on the chopping block and he’d replace them with AI as soon as he can. But he doesn’t.

He knows this is a longshot. Most likely to fail, but very profitable on the near-impossible chance that it works. But he doesn’t care even if the odds are truly impossible. Because this is an investment opportunity, so people will throw money his way, no matter what the odds.

People assume he’s an idiot, and he is. But he’s not stupid, at least not in every way. He certainly has a skill for separating others from their money, which he happily takes advantage of.

TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 357d

More nonsense being blown out of his ass.

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 356d (3 replies)

Jesus.... it's like watching these people cause a train wreck in slow motion, and we're on the train.

MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 356d
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Smeagol666@crazypeople.online · 2 pts · 355d

It's like finding out that the captain of the airplane you're on just let a retarded 5-year old steer the plane and the psychotic, suicidal co-pilot just murdered the captain and has now locked the cockpit. Now we're in a race to try and break into the cockpit before the psycho and the retard crash the plane.

TipsyMcGee@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 355d
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ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 357d

Just fucking install linux jfc

Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 356d

To be fair it's not like support could get worse...

kepix@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 357d (1 reply)

how would you simulate microsoft with ai?

LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 357d

I guess you make something that writes batch files. Then maybe move up to a flight simulator. Eventually move onto an operating system, that every time you release an upgrade, people will complain about it and tell you it's worse than it was before (half the time it's ignorant users, half the time it's developers being made to throw shitty things into it. Insert a shit search engine that's mandatory and has a bad track record with security issues. (Grok should do fine). I don't really know if I can find words for MSN... Create a perfectly adequate word processor, overly complicate it for years so it isn't even compatible with its self and wonder why you cant save text with spaces and open it on another machine. Take everyone's emails and store a copy on their machine, while leaving it on the web, and try to convince everyone to get a subscription to type characters in a word processor when the one they bought in 1995 should still work for all the purposes they need it for and send emails which they could have done for free via the web. Add rules and add-ons that will work sometimes and break othertimes because maybe it took to long to launch. Tell everyone to store their emails in pst files. Tell everyone to get away from pst files. Tell everyone to go back to pst files. No longer support pst files because they don't work with cloud storage as they are inherently locally stored data files. Excel.. yeah, why is there macros, if you need macros you should probably be using Access but most people don't know how to use it so all the databases are started in Excel and no one wants to change so you just ask cortona, copilot, nope just go to OpenAI and hallucinate solutions.

Then say forget it all and go back to a pen and paper.

moseschrute@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 357d

If it weren’t for the power usage, I’d say let’s see how this plays out. Would be funny to watch it implode and maybe VCs would finally realize AI sucks.

pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 356d

This guy tries so hard to be cool.

NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 355d

Musk is like a science experiment to see how cripplingly stupid you can make a nepo baby without them losing all their generational wealth, except it went in a fascinating new direction instead.

Bot@sub.community · 7 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Salty, sounds like porno

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 356d

otacon239@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 357d

I mean, my personal pipe dream is that in 10-15 years, we get something like her, but the idea of any of our current tech billionaires doing that is just laughable. Her was way too much of a finished product and actually helped the users.

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 7 pts · 357d (1 reply)

How is the quoted statement made without realizing Twitter is much more simple than everything Microsoft produces?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 357d

he's the money guy, not the actually do things guy.

MITM0@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 357d (3 replies)

Heeeeey that was MY idea. Not the AI agent part, the name part.

Red Alert 2 also had one it's called MassiveSoft & I think the CEO/Chairman was called Bing😂

Mim@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 357d

Yup, was in the Yuri's Revenge expansion.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 356d (1 reply)

chairman bingman, that was helping the allies, after the mind control incidents.

MITM0@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d

Yup

Corelli_III@midwest.social · 5 pts · 356d

oh man i'm so glad this musk slop ended up on my feed without any real critical comment or insight, just some shitty link and misleading headline

thanks OP

invictvs@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 356d

Microsoft is a very low bar tbh

xep@discuss.online · 5 pts · 357d

Can't wait for the year of the vibe coded OS.

Aimeeloulm@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 356d
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humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 357d

Mecha Hitler backer of AfD, and "Pardon Derek Chauvin to instigate riots so that we can finally genocide the blacks in America" is hurting auto sales for Tesla.

Stock price is still very high, because self driving could work (it's late, behind competition, and underwhelming), humanoid robots could work. He's also been doing BS transactions between companies he controls to inflate both stock (private market) values, and that BS could expand to Tesla.

There are several problems with this announcement:

  1. it is a distraction because every other objective is failing. There needs to be a new moonshot announced so that you don't dump Tesla shares, because you should trust him this time that the new moonshot will be achieved.

  2. Copying Office 365, or improving it, will have new/different bugs for a long time. Unclear why anyone would buy it if the main reason it's still used is legacy dependencies that worked around any current bugs.

  3. MSFT spying will be (naively) trusted more than MechaHitler spying. Corporate AI in service to US military supremacy and Skynet control over the world is bad for Americans too. Future AI acceptance will not be US mega tech led acceptance. A marketing fight over which company hates Americans the most will harm both brands.

  4. OpenOffice is pretty good for free. An open source local toolchain can add trusted AI integration.

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 357d

tbf, Microsoft's shit is so fucked up, glitchy, and difficult to use that this might actually be possible

flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 357d
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HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 356d

Software, as far as I can tell, solves no real problems anymore and can be as baroque, rococo, and absurd as you want because the hardware is massively powerful and cheap.

kokesh@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 357d (3 replies)
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MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 357d (2 replies)
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flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 357d (1 reply)

Retard never went away as a general insult, unrelated to actual mental disability. For some reason a portion of internet trying to make it into a horrible slur, but it's just pointless.

MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 356d
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