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TW😶NKS

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. White text on black

AI Design Logic

Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.

Guy: Get me a cheese pizza

Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.

Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.

Guy: Wow, look what I made!

      • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        The server never presented a list of credits for the pizza, so I assume they made it.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 hours ago

      A thought experiment you could take further.

      The chef didn’t even make the dough. That came from a Cisco truck, from a factory maintained by a team of maintenance workers. The base was good, but made better because the chef added some flour and oil to it.

      Pointless observation, but…many people contribute to most things we only associate to one “maker”.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
        19·
        9 hours ago

        I feel delighted by the implication that the pizza dough came from Cisco, and not Sysco. It’s a $300,000 pizza, with a $15,000/mo support contract. You only get that discount if you’re buying it as part of an 8+ figure contract though. It can handle 20 billion pepperoni per second though, and if you figure out how to eat it you can get a degree in it that pays pretty well.

        You also get the best waiting music known to man while you wait.

        • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 hour ago

          I used to work for Cisco as a programmer, and when I got laid off by them I found out that my mom thought I had been working for Sysco the whole time. She had never understood why I was working for a food services company, although I expect they employ a large number of programmers too.

          Did working for Cisco suck? I can’t say as I never did a lick of actual work for them. They acquired my original company and then we all sat around for a fucking year doing nothing until they laid most of us off. Weirdly, everybody who got laid off was childless – the only people from my original company who were kept on had one or more children. I don’t know what to make of that.

          My only regret is not saying that my work macbook had been stolen. That’s what all of my coworkers did and they all ended up with free macbooks.

          • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            7 hours ago

            https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_on_hold#Cisco’s_Opus_Number_One

            Cisco also sells phone systems, and one of their phone engineers wrote a song with a friend once and used it as the default on what went on to become a very common phone system.
            It’s not the best song ever, but it’s definitely the best hold music. Can elicit a proper, heartfelt “not bad” from most people.
            It’s also common enough that there’s a decent chance any random person has heard it and had no idea where this song came from.

            I attribute it’s quality to it being an authentic piece of music, and not a corporate design creation, that was created on lower fidelity hardware, because that’s what they had to muck around with, and so it had some actual creative feeling to it and it coincidentally didn’t lose much being piped over a 90s voip phone system to a household landline handset.

            https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xed4d7-OauM