For small/unknown companies, all publicity is good publicity may be true, but McDonald's is one of the biggest and most well-established brands around. A horrible ad isn't going to turn many new people onto their products but it sure as hell can turn a lot of people off.
98% of our users use this feature every day!
(…is it the only feature they see when they log in?)
Yes!
I saw an "AI" tool recently which showed how you could create two very different poses for a character, and it would "tween" between the two in a realistic, convincing way. It could be described as "genAI" I suppose, but the company claimed they were very specific with how they trained the model and what it was intended to do.
There were still animators upset about it, and I get it. I'd probably be upset about it if I were in that profession. I'm certainly upset about LLM use in programming. But if I squint really hard, I can barely eke out a vision of limited, targeted, vetted tools which accomplish very specific aids to creators in their professional workflows.
That is not by and large how any of the services we regularly hear about are built and marketed. There's a wide gulf between ethically-sourced, limited professional workflow tools and the Copilots & Soras & Sunos of the world. I would say as a general rule, if something is produced based on a "prompt", it should be immediately viewed with immense suspicion.
This polling data is pretty wild:
About 93% of corporate leaders and 80% of investors said they think AI will be net positive for society compared to just 58% of ordinary people, according to the poll by nonprofit Just Capital.
Time to drop a new meme…
Huge, huge fan of this API. Can't wait until we don't need a polyfill anymore. The built-in commands concept is cool and hopefully will expand in time, but the custom commands functionality is a real game-changer! Anything which makes wiring up various web components into a real UI more declarative and web-native is most welcome.
All good on the wifi front here on Asahi Fedora Linux on Mac mini M1. 😁
Where's PieFed? 😂
Honestly PieFed is the best thing that happened this year to the fediverse IMHO. I'm having a blast running my own instance and hope to make a lot of use of PieFed going into 2026 for both business and pleasure.
My teen has already been through the hype cycle. Was super into chatbots…until they were not. My preteen has never been even tempted, thought it was stupid from the get-go. From the mouth of babes…!
The acceleration of agentic coding and the plummet in software quality & reliability aren't two separate stories. They're the same story. Even if a particular bug/problem can't be traced back to a slop source, the proliferation of slop is itself a net drag on software teams and leads to overall deskilling and focus diversion.
We have a duty as industry professionals to fight back, say no, and make sure companies are aware this "new normal" is completely and utterly unacceptable.
Corporate social media run by Big Tech. This isn't really a problem on community-run services because we, the people, aren't putting up with this crap. 😂
Thank god for the fediverse!
This is fantastic. I often notice these sorts of things immediately, which is why I find slop so abhorrent and grotesque.