@thomasfuchs indeed. I was looking at an EV on a web page today and it had a leasing price/month. So I wanted the details and tapped the price. A chat opens up! What the hey! It's exactly what you're describing.

So I never found out about the price details. I left it be, because I don't want start typing with a poorly conceived chatbot.

@thomasfuchs one of the indignities of being an unemployed web developer is filling in truely awful application forms that have been vibed together and never tested. I could fix this for you!

@thomasfuchs or how you have to use voice command in recent mercedes to skip a song without fumbling with the screen, instead of just pressing a button on the steering wheel

@thomasfuchs or apps which load AI models even if you don't use them, use more memory/cpu.

Think this is what cause my laptop to go slow today

@thomasfuchs Last year I rented a car and the first night I was driving it over really bad mountain roads I had to realise that tuning the lights was no longer instant but it took close to 2 seconds while they were f..king fading up or down. It was not deactivateable and I had to live with it. The ride was pure hell of course.
Not sure if AI was involved but at least someone who never drives a car.

@thomasfuchs Is that a reference to Tesla replacing the gear shift lever with “AI” + touchscreen?

@thomasfuchs Oh and you are responsible if it takes that instruction and floors the gas.

@thomasfuchs "Open the pod bay doors, Hal."

@thomasfuchs sadly not much you can do besides try to live a good life and keep moving forward.

@thomasfuchs The CAD industry has never made any effort in 50 years to come up with good UI. It's all flippy switches and little knobs you have to turn with a screwdriver hidden behind flip down panels.