Posts by Slinkyhippo

Salesforce adds AI to everything, jacks up prices by 6%

If SalesForce did consultancy

Standard SF approach, put out items you don't want or need and then charge you extra for them. It is just like bringing in a large consultancy to help on a project - the bill only ever increases in their favour

Builder.ai coded itself into a corner – now it's bankrupt

I had a meeting with BuilderAI a couple of years back and it was very clear within 30 minutes that they were built on hype. Their "AI" offering really was just templates of code with very little "AI" invovled at all. In fact, they were little more than a software development house that used cheap labour in India to do most of the work.

Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans

Re: Capitalism is dying

Wow, it is like the ultimate communist utopia. Sadly we have seen time and time again in these approaches that equality is far from delivered and you basically just end up with a lot more people in a low standard of living whilst a few "party leaders" live a champagne style existance