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The goal is to create hundreds of specialized coding and generative AI agents. 'It should be possible to simulate [Microsoft] entirely with AI,' Musk says.

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[–] hydrashok@sh.itjust.works 189 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It should be possible for a car to not run over people, too. That seems like a more pressing computing issue.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 121 points 1 day ago (1 children)

MACROHARD, GET IT???

I'm hilarious and edgy, so my cars can kill a few people, as a treat.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

And Microsoft did it over a decade ago for day9's company's after dark StarCraft tournament.

Moron isn't 1% as funny or creative as he thinks he is

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 138 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Sounds like something a teenager would come up with - this is exactly what I'd expect Musk to do

[–] natecox@programming.dev 95 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It is literally a joke I made in high school, ~25 years ago.

He’s such a loser.

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[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's such a fucking simple edge-lord.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's literally JP from Grandma's Boy.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is. Dial-up nerds have been calling Microsoft exactly that online for literal decades at this point. He's not even original.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's an old joke that the opposite of Microsoft Office is Macrohard Onfire

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

I used to say this as a joke in middle-school all the time.

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 112 points 1 day ago
[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

For the love of god, just OD on ketamine already.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Why do bad Tesla fires only trap good people?

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Drug addict hallucinates what?

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sharon... the porch won't slow down.

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I remember back when I was a kid it was hard to convince people that wealth and success was not a matter of being better, smarter, or harder working - as we were told - but rather almost entirely a matter of luck. Thankfully, Elon Musk has shown many people the light that I could not. Thank you, Elon

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

To be fair there is one personal trait that's really important to wealth and success, the willingness to walk over the bodies of your peers.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Too many people are still convinced that Elon's wealth is attained through his hardwork alone.

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 53 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I've said it before, early on he should have become reclusive and hired PR people to filter his ideas out to his companies and the public, and he'd be considered a prodigy and genius and wouldn't have the self-induced failures he does. But that goes against his narcissistic personality, so it wasn't going to happen.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago

Annoys me that people sling "narcissist" at everyone they don't like, but damn, the man is hitting on all 8-cylinders for a diagnosis, and he only needs to hit 5:

  • Having a grandiose sense of self-importance, such as exaggerating achievements and talents, expecting to be recognized as superior even without commensurate achievements

  • Preoccupation with fantasies of success, power, beauty, and idealization

  • Belief in being "special" and that they can only be understood by or associated with other high-status people (or institutions)

  • Demanding excessive admiration

  • Sense of entitlement

  • Exploitation behaviors

  • Lack of empathy

  • Envy towards others or belief that others are envious of them Arrogant, haughty behaviors and attitudes [1]

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[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 43 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I’m so tired of this idiot ass fucking dystopia.

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 43 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Vibe coded Operating System. And Office suite. And cloud offering. And Enterprise. And SaaS. And game console.

What could go wrong?

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What could go wrong?

Seeing how Microsoft (and Windows 11 in particular) is doing lately, and how practically every single Windows update is breaking something important, a lot.

We've already got one vibe coded Windows. We don't need another one.

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[–] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also vibe coded vibe coding AI assistant.

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Shut the fuck up, Elon. Can't you just quietly enjoy being the richest person on Earth?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago

The wealth was meaningless without the attention.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If I had his money I'd be 24/7 inventing cool things for myself and wife and friends to experience. This guy has a fundamental need to be the loudest person in the room and to embroil himself into anything and everything. I would almost feel sorry for him - his life has got to really suck so bad and he can't fix it. So instead he goes off on 100 projects that make no sense or fall apart. There's stuff I can't wrap my head around like - why ditch LIDAR when it's absolutely the answer ? You just know his convoluted brain is so full of mess that if you were offered a deal with the devil to get all his money on the condition that you got trapped in his meat grinder of a mind... you'd turn down the offer.

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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes, i will wait for it while I am travelling in the hyperloop

"It's not that hard! I swear" (Elon)

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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago

Fuck off musk, you probably don’t even know where that came from.

Disgusting

[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

So stupid that I can't even tell if an Onion article is real or not.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If he pours enough billions of dollars into it this could be the most epic software project disaster of all time.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And here I thought the Windows 11 enshitification couldn't get worse.

Nobody should ever trust anything Musk wants them to install on their devices.

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I just watched something earlier that showed a clip of him saying how he was warning everyone early on about the dangers of AI because he was genuinely scared of the harm it could do.

Glad he’s not a hypocrite or anything.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Given Microsoft is having people locked up opposed to genocide, I hope they destroy each other.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I made that joke when I was 13 years old...

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[–] DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

What a fucking dumbass.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Macrohard, which he ain't because of that botched surgery.

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He got tired of people not talking about him

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

We've surpassed vibe-coding and are onto vibe-companies

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 16 points 1 day ago
[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

🤦‍♂️

He's been snorting ketamine again, hasn't he..?

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thst's not how this works. THAT'S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS FUCKING WORKS**!!!**

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But has musk ever been wrong?

Apart from hyperloop, solar rooftops, Tesla semi, passenger rockets, car tunnels under cities, robotaxi, flying Tesla's, humans on mars in 2022, self driving Tesla's making the owner money, and of course cybertruck.

[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He probably can't even solve his kids name.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 15 points 1 day ago

This guy gives me second-hand embarrassment for humanity.

[–] Naich@lemmings.world 13 points 1 day ago

Musk is a real fucking prick, isn't he?

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

IBM: Think
Apple: Think Different
Macrohard: Don't Think

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 12 points 1 day ago

I think he is just upset that South Park didn't have a parody of him with a small dick, yet

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