Absolutely - and as a dev I can say I've been in those conversations. The hype is exactly the same as blockchain (and I know it's different to us, our hype is more real because we know what the tech can actually do).

But god do I hate business MBAs all excited about tech they know nothing about. I remember when I was working at $megacorp being forced to listen to a meeting hosted by an MBA about how blockchain was going to revolutionize our business. Powerpoint was about 80% buzzwords with graphs that were obviously just made up. At the end of course the suits were all shaking hands and really proud, and us devs were all like "literally how or why would we put blockchain in our system?"

At least AI has some promise, but abso-fuckin-lutely some idiot PM decided to make it into the calculator. We just know it's a probability engine, so that yes this string of characters should probably give a coherent answer, but I'm just already seeing these stupid business people trying to shoe-horn in AI everywhere. Hell I'm seeing Jr devs suggesting it for things like "What if we used it to solve the shortest distance" type problems - problems we already have optimized solutions for. Let's use it, but goddamn can we please get off the hype wagon and focus on where it could be actually useful?

Wow okay that was way more than I meant to write, but it was cathartic. Thank you for letting me vent that. I'm... a bit annoyed with my work right now.

I mean they did a calculation in the start menu search.... Like the normal thing is that it wouldn't even be a thing and simply not work or not return anything, but since it has this internet search feature this happened.

Like the normal thing would have been to open the calculator.

Oh just in Windows 11 the clock is technically an app. And that app needed an update. The clock app in windows needed an update that hey had to wait for Windows Updates to do before they could use it.

To me, that's crazy that an app as simple as "clock" requires an update to function.

It was the timer app, wanting to set a timer for food cooking, and the timer wouldn't operate without updating first.