We're already at a point where trending topics on every social media platform includes people asking AI chatbots if something is true, or for definitions or context, and they just accept the answers with no further research: I can't see this any other way than "we are doomed".

If companies like OpenAI have said that they've essentially consumed everything ever created by humans, and it isn't enough. and we're now heading down a path of laying off the humans and replacing them with AI, where's the new input coming from? How can things now improve?.

We are heading down a path where AIs are going to be learning from AIs - if we aren't already there - and all the issues/hallucinations are going to get worse. Then, the people that have lost the ability to work and learn/research due to relying on AI. well, they're screwed.

I find it weird that, on one hand we hear how AI companies have exhausted all possible sources of training data to the point of transcribing YT videos and scraping Reddit, yet on the other hand companies are replacing creatives with AI, drying up the well of future training data.

Shifting weight over the front foot feels weird. The grip position, combined with locking and not using wrists, feels wrong. Driving the hips around and lifting the body and back foot feels like stuff I trained myself out of for years. I gear this is going to take a while to fix.

The good news is, the golf coach I booked time with is happy with my grip, posture, swing, hand eye coordination, and I'm making progress. The bad news is, a decade or so of playing baseball and cricket is really holding my swing back, and topping + slicing is a problem still.

I don't care what your personal preference of device and software is. Unless the environment is BYOD, you need to learn to use what the environment uses. And the audacity of a STUDENT teacher being unwilling to LEARN how to use new devices and software is just shocking to me.

And it is almost ALWAYS the Mac lovers. They will screw their nose up, sigh, complain, and refuse to use something that doesn't have an Apple logo on it. Such immaturity is something that I, if I were in charge of placements, wouldn't put up with and would revoke the prac over. .

In many organisations, if you were actually EMPLOYED and said "I don't want to use that device/software, I want this other stuff instead", or "Nah, I want to use my own device instead", you'd probably be shown the door. To do that as a student teacher, placed in a school on prac?.

If you are a Mac fan that uses Google web apps for everything, but you find yourself placed in a school that uses managed Windows PCs and Microsoft 365 Apps, you get given the device the school wants you to use and you learn to use it, right? What is with this entitlement?.

I don't get some "student teachers" on practicum: They are training to be teachers. They are meant to be placed in schools, to see/learn how things work, to immerse themselves in a working EDU environment & learn; So many of them are like "No, I'm not using that device/software".

Normally, scared of bad things happening when I hit enter/post, I select all and copy before hitting the button. In this case, I was mid-sentence when it decided to reauthenticate me or whatever and it nuked all the work I had just done. I hate this. Fine, I'll do it myself.

Oh, come on! I was trying to use Copilot to help me write a org post. I added a HEAP of information there that I wanted Copilot to help expand on and rewrite for me. Then the stupid page refreshes on me and I lose all the text I was entering. Really? See, AI *hurts* productivity.

I was happy with Wordpad & Notepad. They made sense, and were super fast/snappy to get stuff done with. In EDU environments, these were used as test/exam apps when computers were needed. With one deprecated, and the other bloated, testing/exam setup was just made way harder. Why?.

I find it funny how Microsoft deprecated Wordpad, then added many of the capabilities to Notepad (that nobody asked for) and essentially turned it into Wordpad. And when we complained about that, they're now talking about the return of Edit (in CMD) as a Notepad replacement. LOL.

4. Their docs are terrible, providing incomplete and very generic examples, requiring eleven different pages for one simple answer, and all they want you to do is give up and pay tens of thousands of dollars to partners instead: Who will try to sell you new stuff you don't need.

3. Their support is awful. Their teams are very narrowly scoped do you get bounced around, and they don't care about your needs as a customer, just closing tickets as soon as possible by saying something is "by design" even if clearly not and blocking customer usage/needs. .

2. A lot of their staff are just sales, or act that way even if they aren't specifically sales. They care about profit, driving customers to partners to keep them happy, and have zero interest in actually helping a customer, just push customers to new shiny stuff to make money. .

In reality:.1. Microsoft licensing is deliberately obtuse and they don't care about helping customers find ways to make things work. They will push you to a partner, then hope to make billions from audits & compliance fines. It's all about profits and shareholder value. .

The funny thing is, I once completed a Microsoft survey and chose the "Strongly disagree" option for the "Microsoft understands my business needs" question, and it caused a massive "thing" with urgent meetings between Microsoft & my team: They were acting like they didn't know.