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AI Robot Butlers Are Just Glorified Hallucinating Telemarketers

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Description: Silicon Valley's newest digital snake oil has arrived: AI agents that promise to book your flights but deliver fishing trips in landlocked states. While tech CEOs parade their "autonomous assistants" on CNBC, the rest of us are stuck with virtual pets that hallucinate more frequently than a sophomore on spring break.

Spice Index: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

The spice in this rant comes from skewering Silicon Valley's chronic overpromising. Why? Because nothing sells like digital salvation to people terrified of becoming obsolete. Every AI demo is the Fyre Festival of technology—glamorous marketing masking spectacular failure. These "agents" are just hallucinating telemarketers with Stanford degrees, peddling snake oil while VCs throw money like trust fund kids at a casino. Pure comedy when reality crashes the techno-utopia party.

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Description: Silicon Valley's newest digital snake oil has arrived: AI agents that promise to book your flights but deliver fishing trips in landlocked states. While tech CEOs parade their "autonomous assistants" on CNBC, the rest of us are stuck with virtual pets that hallucinate more frequently than a sophomore on spring break.

Spice Index: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️

The spice in this rant comes from skewering Silicon Valley's chronic overpromising. Why? Because nothing sells like digital salvation to people terrified of becoming obsolete. Every AI demo is the Fyre Festival of technology—glamorous marketing masking spectacular failure. These "agents" are just hallucinating telemarketers with Stanford degrees, peddling snake oil while VCs throw money like trust fund kids at a casino. Pure comedy when reality crashes the techno-utopia party.

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