I think this is a fundamentally adverserial mindset and so you should be prepared for others to treat you in kind (i.e. to attack you and minimize the value of your work)

It strikes me that if this technology were as useful and all-encompassing as it's marketed to be, we wouldn't need four articles like this every week

How many millions of articles are there about people figuring out how to write better software?

Does something have to be trivial-to-use to be useful?

People are figuring it out. Cars are broadly useful, but there's nuance to how to maintain then, use them will in different terrains and weather, etc.

Regardless, the statement "the stock market has said SaaS is dead" is a fair and accurate response to your initial question "Who said SaaS is dead".

I'm curious if blocking non-company AI is even possible. It's very easy for me to imagine someone, say, turning the wi-fi off on their phone and using the claude phone app, or texting their openclaw.

I'd like to believe that Tencent has information gathering methods more sophisticated than asking me to send them a picture of my driver's license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpalatable_food , One could argue about the plastic usage of the Coca-Cola company, etc

Good call. Maybe the US needs a food score system on the label like they have in some European countries. Obviously that system has it's flaws though

The EU (Maybe it's only Dutch, not 100% sure) food score system is completely idiotic since it applies to products within the same food category only, but it's not really explicitly spelled out anywhere that that's the case and as far as I know there's not even a reliable way of knowing what product falls into what category (e.g. is a freezer pizza in the same category as potato chips/snacks, or is it a baked good?), or even how they came to the score at all. So a bag of chips, a 4 cheese pizza and a head of lettuce can all have an "A" grade, with nothing to indicate what that actually means.

I'm amazed at how many people, even now after a decade of this system being in place, get confused about why a bag of chips is apparently an A. It's very misleading IMO and not very useful for conveying info, that's what the ingredient list is for tbh.