Left a bad review, not sure it’ll do much but it’s better than nothing I guess.

Like the code was translated from Fortran, that’s how old it is.

Also, side note…. Look at how cute this Labubu is!!!! 😅

I got this while on my visit to South Korea, which was a great time over early December. I definitely want to go back there someday!

Anyway, there was just a lot of thoughts that I had to write down in respect to this article. It triggered many of my braincells and I just felt the need to rant. I am so sick of 2025's AI-first mentality by the big technology companies. I a hoping that this coming year will play out differently.

But I want this done without the removal of what makes the technology designed for humans, by humans. Removal of the human from our daily tasks doesn't add value, it removes the very essence of what makes us a unique spark of intelligent evolutional development within an empty cosmos.

I dont want this bullshit, half-baked products shoved down my throat. I dont want to be AI-pilled by the techno-inbreds of Silicon Valley. What I want to have are products that continue to add value to my life through smarter connections within the apps and systems that I use all the time.

However, this vision that Apple described in that WWDC... this idea of a non AI-first approach with technology, but an underlying hidden use of AI almost in order to add a cross-application intelligence within their unix-based ecosystem. That is what I want in AI technology.

Rather, I want any sort of AI development to serve as another one of those tools that helps make the things I already do on my computers and devices smarter. Apple has gotten a lot of things wrong with their AI announcements in their 2024 WWDC, any technology-focused person could argue that.

However, I do not want to have an AI-forward, AI-first experience. I want there to remain the human in the technology. Technology is created in order to provide value to humanity, not to replace that value with a soulless alternative. I dont want to live a life dictated by AI-first enshitification.

I want to finally write a small blurb to further elaborate. I am not entirely against AI either. The technology can be useful for pattern discovery, recognition, and understanding of hyper complex systems that do not initially have a rhyme or reason for functioning the way that they do.

Replacing the manual step of creation, the virtual work and effort that goes into the creation of digital work... it sucks the life out of the software and products that are written by humans. It is a similar soulless feeling produced by AI "art". There lacks a human ingenuity, a craftsmanship.

As a software engineer, there is something I like about typing away at a keyboard, largely the mechanical keys clacking away on the day to day as I work on software or personal projects. I enjoy the clicking and tapping at the screens in my life.

The second camp is this gigantic push by Microsoft specifically and companies like Rabbit... the push for AI-agent first approach to technology. I dont desire for a voice-controlled computer interface. I dont want AI-driven technology to replace the human interfaces that I have today.

That is where I can contribute direct frustration with the technology, with the wide-spread push for this tech (which has not produced highly valuable output), coming across as insensitive by the AI-model companies and their business partners. This has bothered/frustrated me for a long time.