You make great points for the engineering minded, and the original article was about nerds, so that's all grand. However; when I inwardly cringe at these ideas

You make great points for the engineering minded, and the original article was about nerds, so that's all grand. However; when I inwardly cringe at these ideas being rehashed (possibly not the machine learning one), it's when someone non-technical is eagerly pitching me their Facebook for Dogs idea and trying to get me to code it up for free, it'll be the Next Big Thing, just you wait and see...