It’s interesting. There’s a lot of talk about how chatgpt makes people lazy, but honestly I think Google killed the “read the manual” ethos.

Back in the day when you couldn’t just search for everything, you needed enough understanding of the manual to find anything in the index.

So a key part of figuring anything out was reading at least the start of the manual.

Now, fuck it, you just type into Google and try to guess enough context to understand what’s going on.

Selfie doesn’t work, you need to turn your head left and right to follow instructions.

But yeah, there’s a bunch of avatars that will bypass it

Go on, drop a rocket on Zuck’s Bond villain hideout.

Let’s see what happens.