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@@ -65,12 +65,12 @@ ### Tutti mi vogliono, tutti mi cercano
 
 Everyone wants AI. It's like a must have or you are not cool enough. Months ago we changed our washing machine, and we got the best one we have ever had. Honest. Forgive the sexism, but you could call it _husband-proof_: you turn it on, you turn the knob to your desired program, and press play. Simple enough:
 
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 <img src="/images/ai/washing-machine-ai.gif" alt="An AI-enabled washing machine" />
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+<div class="figcaption">
 Turning on my washing machine
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+</div>
 
 So you turn it on, it says "Hello", followed by _Optimizing with AI_, and then... it comes up with a program to run that, based on God knows what, is meant to be what I *should* be running at the time (side note: this washing machine can obviously be connected to the internet... and if it rains at your location it can kindly remind you that you may not be able to dry your clothes). Anyhow, every single time, the suggested program is not what I want. Every time I just turn the knob to the right once, and select "Cloudy Day". Funny thing is that underneath it says _most-frequently used cycle_. So it keeps track of how often I use a program, then WHY, pray tell, you have to make me wait a second and a bit to show a pointless message about AI followed by a program that (statistically) I am not going to run?
 
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ What the actually f***. I mean _seriously_. I really struggled the urge to quote [one of the most insightful rants](https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/) on AI I have ever read.
 
 The one thing that is more annoying than AI, is people desperately trying to shove it down your throat.
 
-### Generative AI is not a product
+### AI is not a product
 
 As a technical product manager myself, I have to frequently deal with AI-generated hype, at all levels: executives want you to put AI in your products, and so do engineers it seems. Everytime anybody comes to me with a proposal to use AI to do something, I ask myself the following questions:
 
@@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ No. Asking our users to type in a prompt instead of pushing buttons in a UI to do the same thing is not _cool_. It's a _colossal waste of time_. If someone comes to you and says that AI can make your users more productive so that they don't need to know how to use your user interface anymore... you have a much bigger problem: perhaps, your user interface _just sucks_ and you simply have to fix that.
 
 But no. Some people just want the sparkles ✨. Add a ✨ in your interface, show a Copilot-like panel, and your product will sell. No. That may have been true months ago, but users are getting smarter. Some users (like me) are getting so used to different AIs to hallucinate so bad, that they systematically avoid pressing ✨ buttons. 
 
-### De rerum _novissmarum_
+### The Pope enters the chat
 
-On May 8th, the (Catholic) world rejoiced at the announcement by protodeacon Dominique Mamberti that we had a new Pope:
+On May 8th 2025, the (Catholic) world rejoiced at the announcement by protodeacon Dominique Mamberti that we had a new Pope:
 
 > Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum:
 > HABEMUS PAPAM
@@ -199,32 +199,10 @@ One must go beyond the mere accumulation of data and strive to achieve true wisdom.
 
 In a world marked by AI, we need the grace of the Holy Spirit, who “enables us to look at things with God’s eyes, to see connections, situations, events and to uncover their real meaning.”
 
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+https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-05/pope-leo-xiv-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas-ai.html
 
 ### Bulls*it machines
 
-### Vibe coding
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-## Fuzzyness
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-## A reliability problem 
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-## Agents
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-[](https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-03-19-vibe-coding-vs-reality.html)
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-Notes:
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-- apple and ms didn't get it right 
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-- Sparkles emoji
-- artisan engineers
-- my law: Effectivity of AI is directly proportional to the intelligence of its user
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-
 [](https://thebullshitmachines.com)
 Informative, lessons
 Predictive text, autocomplete
@@ -254,6 +232,48 @@ A way to get rid of bullshit work
 FOMO
 AI training on AI data
 Generate artifacts (or simulacra)
+
+### Why AI is Bad, period
+
+https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again
+
+https://airesistlist.org/
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+https://dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023
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+https://isaiprofitable.com/
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+https://agentultra.com/blog/why-i-wont-use-ai/index.html
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+### My personal experience
+
+- Hex
+- Month with Claude
+- VSCode vs VsCodium
+- Tainted by AI (Vim Classic)
+- Health diagnosis 
+
+### Parting thoughts and my stance against AI
+
+- Avoid
+- Monitor 
+- Educate
+- Advocate
+- Hope
+
+
+-------
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+Notes:
+
+- apple and ms didn't get it right 
+
+- Sparkles emoji
+- artisan engineers
+- my law: Effectivity of AI is directly proportional to the intelligence of its user
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+
+