Clarke's new law: sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-23
A tech-culture riff imagining Arthur C. Clarke after a customer-service call: his famous law rewritten as "any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" — a sharp jab at modern support and automation.
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