Grady Booch mocks Marissa Mayer using her AI assistant to describe her own daughter
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-10-27
Grady Booch shares a report of former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer outsourcing a school request — three bullet points on what makes her 10-year-old daughter special — to her personal AI assistant "Dazzle," which instantly produced "empathetic, creative, animal lover." He sarcastically calls it "the hard problem of consciousness, revised."
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