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Snake oil is high in omega-3 fatty acids so there is some benefit. It was just over-hyped by unscrupulous sales demons in that it doesn't cure baldness, liver
by LinuxBender 2y ago
Snake oil is high in omega-3 fatty acids so there is some benefit. It was just over-hyped by unscrupulous sales demons in that it doesn't cure baldness, liver disease, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, blindness, anxiety and surely does not attract the ladies even when mixed with horse urine. I wish I could somehow undo its bad reputation.
A lot of software now is just colorful bloatware wrappers around existing software. Old stuff, found new money. I still can't wrap my head around the concept of phone apps. as in why they even exist in the first place. I've heard all the reasons but my mind can not accept any of them.
- muzani 2y agoSnake oil salesmen were also not selling actual snake oil most of the time. I think the analogy works.
- cratermoon 2y ago> It was just over-hyped by unscrupulous sales demons in that it doesn't cure baldness, liver disease, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, blindness, anxiety and surely does not attract the ladies even when mixed with horse urine. Just as LLMs have a useful niche but they are hyped as being able to cure baldness, liver disease, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, blindness, anxiety and surely and attract the ladies even when mixed with agentic tools. In medicine, it's a rule of thumb that if a product claims to cure a wide variety of things that have no common pathogenesis, the claims are bunk. In software, if a product claims to solve a variety of problems that have no common cause, those claims are bunk.