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Zach Wichter
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Travel reporter and Cruising Altitude columnist for USA TODAY zwichter@usatoday.com ✡️🏳️‍🌈✈️🗒
It's going to be 75% irrelevant pitches, probably!
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Dude this is awesome
November 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“Busan is good” 😍
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
TL;DR I don’t like AI and I this is the first time I’ve really tried to use it. I’m not going back. I found another, easier workaround anyway. 6/6
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Well guess what? None of those suggestions worked either. None of the suggested file types were supported, and AI lied to me every time I asked it if it could do the thing I needed it to do, to make it seem more capable than it is. 5/
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
“No, I don’t support .m4a files (you moron (emphasis mine)). But it’s easy to solve! Either convert your file to a supported file type like .wav or .mp3, or compress it into a zip and I can extract it and transcribe the file for you that way” (paraphrased) 4/
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
And Copilot said yes! So I thought, maybe it needed to be primed, and tried dragging and dropping again, and again got the unsupported notification. So I told Copilot “it won’t let me upload an .m4a file” and Copilot said… 3/
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
So I clicked the little attach button, but the file wasn’t showing up in the finder. No problem! I could drag and drop, which I did. But then I got a notification that the file type wasn’t supported. It was an .m4a. So I said, “Can you transcribe an .m4a file?” 2/
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I hear what you're saying! I do think these arrangements unlock some benefits, but I agree about the distinction. I think it might just be a little too in the weeds for casual travelers, especially since most of these deals are codeshares and not interlines these days.
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Social media, I think, has made *everything* worse (he posts on social media...)
October 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I also got one of these and was floored!
October 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
As someone who gets on the Q80/10 at the Kew Gardens terminal multiple times a week, I can verify that the posted schedule bears almost no resemblance to the actual departure times on either route
October 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM