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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 210 points 1 month 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 133 points 1 month ago (4 children)

MACROHARD, GET IT???

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

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 150 points 1 month 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 103 points 1 month ago (3 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 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's such a fucking simple edge-lord.

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

He's literally JP from Grandma's Boy.

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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month 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 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

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

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 123 points 1 month ago
[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (15 children)

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

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do bad Tesla fires only trap good people?

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Drug addict hallucinates what?

[–] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 60 points 1 month ago (7 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 26 points 1 month 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 20 points 1 month 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 55 points 1 month 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 38 points 1 month 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 50 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

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[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 month ago (6 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 16 points 1 month 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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[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“In principle, given that software companies like Microsoft do not themselves manufacture any physical hardware, it should be possible to simulate them entirely with AI,” he added.

Ummm, is someone going to tell him about the Xbox, Surface devices, and the entire Azure infrastructure they built.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And the Zune. Don't forget the Zune!

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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month 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 month ago

The wealth was meaningless without the attention.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month 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 33 points 1 month 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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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

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

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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

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

Disgusting

[–] kbal@fedia.io 22 points 1 month 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 month 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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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] tarknassus@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good luck to Musk then. Was listening to a cybersec podcast on my morning dog walk and one of the stories was about the amount of security flaws that can be created with AI coding machines. Unless you're aware of the language, exploits, weaknesses etc. etc.

What a dumbass. Every time he opens his smarmy gob these days he makes himself seem dumber every time.

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Macrohard..the kind of joke that 11 year olds made on AOL in 1994

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

What a fucking dumbass.

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

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

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

He got tired of people not talking about him

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

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

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🤦‍♂️

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

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Macrohard, another very funny joke from Elon's brilliant mind.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 16 points 1 month ago

This guy gives me second-hand embarrassment for humanity.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

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