What ever happend to the classic “reticulating splines”?
There a progress bar in an application I wrote that has a one in twenty chance of saying “Reticulating Splines” instead of its usual label.
I have a few hundred users so there are definitely people who have seen it, but so far no one has mentioned it.
Most users don’t care and those who do know chuckle and move along. :-)
source?
The Sims 1
I thought I saw it as far back as simcopter
and the more we vibe code, the more it thinks
The less I think, the more it thinks
And the more it thinks, the more it stinks.
Oh man, I fear that this is genuinely what lots of people take as their clue as to what’s AI and what is not. I’ve seen plenty people refer to algorithms as AI. They’re probably wondering why this AI is so reliable compared to the others…
We have always had some widgets in our page that take a second to load data from an API, so they have a loader (think weather widget). Recently a couple people left feedback shaming us for using “AI” to do things like getting the weather. The link between loaders and AI is already setting in.
Dreamcast: the first AI console.
It really was ahead on everything!


