Da.mn AI featueres. They make people more stupid, because people tend to rely on them instead of learning how their stuff actually works and when they have to do something that isn’t covered by AI features they have no bloody idea how to do that.
I doubt it’s anywhere near profitable, it’s even debatable if Amazon burned money or not by putting it in cinemas, considering it might not even have surpassed it’s advertisement budget.
Entire companies closing down in late summer here is pretty much a thing of the past, though, nowadays the production continues. Back when that was still done the companies generally used the time to set the machines up for the new model year and to perform maintenance, while most of the workers (those that didn’t have to set up the machines) were on vacation with their families. Sometimes small businesses still do that, for the time when the owner is on vacation (like an attorney’s office, there is no real use to stay open while the attorney is on vacation, the paralegals don’t really have anything to do then).
December 26th is the 2nd day of Christmas here and a public holyday. Most people take Dec. 27th to January 2nd off (Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are also pretty much public holydays here, if you don’t work in retail), I generally work through these days. I work in customer support and we have to have someone on the phone, if there’s a call coming in. I also get so much done, but most isn’t work related.
Da.mn AI featueres. They make people more stupid, because people tend to rely on them instead of learning how their stuff actually works and when they have to do something that isn’t covered by AI features they have no bloody idea how to do that.