Devil's advocate: perhaps you are holding a hammer complaining about rivets. If you used AI to interact with the code instead, you wouldn't have to wade through the mess and might have gotten what you needed fairly easily, except you're using the wrong tool for the job

Bad code is bad code, doesn't matter how it was generated.

There's no contradiction, but if/when it happens, being "not thrilled" will overflow off the bottom of your list of concerns

I don't think privacy and helicoptering is a dichotomy. Hell, the concept of privacy is actually very recent, and the default state for protohumans is no privacy (can't hide anything when everyone is in the same cave/hut)

I'm not saying kids should have no privacy, but I think privacy is overrated and the real problem is parents being overly controlling

As a thought experiment, would you rather prefer letting natural selection run its course so that future generations will have immunity against addictive gambling

The low hanging fruit of banning reported predators, instead of banning people who are reporting predators. Or the low hanging fruit of not saying they want to turn their platform dominated by children into a dating site.

Epstein would blush

Of course a kid is gonna be annoyed if they get something other than what they want, but, to use a hamfisted but scarily apt analogy, are the kids yearning for the drug called sugar or the drug called crack/meth/etc. Both are "bad" but on completely different levels

I can't speak for GP, but at least adults are responsible for their own spending problems

We're well past the point where humans can reliably identify AI generated content. Sure, you might often correctly identify AI content, but part of that is due to how much AI content there is; you can call everything AI generated and still have a high ratio of correctness. Meanwhile, I guarantee there's a lot of AI content that you're failing to notice.

Rather than using the AI bogeyman, why not analyze things as-is? If it's good or bad, does it matter if it's AI or human? Or are you in denial about some existential fear?

Which is one reason why the legacy news media is disregarded/disrespected by the general public. People have caught into the games that they play such as trying to paint people as pre convicted

The consumer laptop industry has been dying for a while now IMO. The average person doesn't need a computer. They have a smartphone, and if they need a bit more screen then they have a tablet. If you're a power user or gamer a desktop is preferable.

The Neo is targeting the cheap laptop market for those people that DO need it. Again, another totally pointless comment by somebody who sounds clueless.

Casual users prefer using their smartphone instead of their laptop, because the smart phone unlocks instantly and is ready to go. Meanwhile, a PC laptop takes a few minutes to boot up, then when Windows has loaded it will hog all CPU and memory and all the internet bandwidth to download and install updates, while blasting the fans.

The user will make a pathetic attempt to open the web browser to do the hotel or flight or event reservation they wanted to do. Or open a document in Word. Everything is extremely slow because of the update running.

When the user has finished her task, she will close down the computer. Windows will cancel the update which was in progress, so that the user can have that same joyful laptop experience next month when she needs to use it again.

Is it any wonder that people prefer doing things on their smart phones, even with the tiny displays and no keyboards?

This is how the majority of consumers experience using a laptop. Then they try a Mac, where you just open the lid and go. If people knew this, then the consumer PC laptop market would die in three months.