Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 10:13     Subject: How Naked is the AI Emperor? Nobody Knows...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can’t help but judge based on my own experiences

Chat bots - they can’t help me and I have to ask for a live agent. It takes forever and is a PIA

AI at work - I use it but doesn’t really save that much time. Lots of talk about AI, and most employees go along with it because we have to use it. Some of us just make up reasons to use it.

I do use AI for web searching like everyone else.



I agree on all of this. The chatbots are a big source of frustration. It would be really nice if any of them had ever been able to resolve a problem for me but I can’t recall a single instance when I haven’t had to ask for a live person.


They seem to only draw from the website FAQs which I could easily have used on my own if it would solve my problem.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 09:46     Subject: How Naked is the AI Emperor? Nobody Knows...
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can’t help but judge based on my own experiences

Chat bots - they can’t help me and I have to ask for a live agent. It takes forever and is a PIA

AI at work - I use it but doesn’t really save that much time. Lots of talk about AI, and most employees go along with it because we have to use it. Some of us just make up reasons to use it.

I do use AI for web searching like everyone else.



I agree on all of this. The chatbots are a big source of frustration. It would be really nice if any of them had ever been able to resolve a problem for me but I can’t recall a single instance when I haven’t had to ask for a live person.


I’m convinced they are there to frustrate you until you go away. It’s the new endless phone tree.
Anonymous
Post 02/24/2026 01:23     Subject: How Naked is the AI Emperor? Nobody Knows...
Anonymous wrote:I miss Richard Scarry world of jobs
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS13SD__9jCaeerFpbla3yKyAOHP8j8Xrqnr4JbrsaJMA&s=10


Love that book. And feel like the question “What do people do all day?” Is one of the most important questions of any era and one that most people just don’t know the answer to.

Also, on the AI question, this is amusing:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-claude-ai-vending-machine-agent-b7e84e34?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqdz3kBTgEHw5_MbEzNqRRkyxXFHf14f_5L6zXT-CXtZObhaOZej9QllOWEAQzI%3D&gaa_ts=699d4755&gaa_sig=1ju_GnhNXe_WRNo-6AcpXVYxGt9rQbsHG5--1S4oukj77ZDYav6oO0hbMgKtrd5M4U5a6HmhQNWrfGwJc5b95w%3D%3D