Please start using AI for marketing
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Nothing says marketing jeeenyus like Amazon trying to sell me "hand picked PCs" because I just got done building a PC. Hello? A) I *just* bought a PC off you jackholes, why would *now* be the time you think I am looking to buy one? B) I went through the trouble of picking up high end parts you don't even put in any of those "hand picked" (read: high margin, low quality) PCs. If anything that should have eliminated me from the mail pool of prospective customers. I'm pretty sure this is in part due to developers thinking oh hey, why not just run our bought-also-bought and bought-similar queries into our mailer engine? Because it's STUPID, that's why. That's why it was so easy. As HL Mencken said: For every complex problem there is a solution that is clear, simple and *wrong*. Speaking as a developer, we are basically ersatz engineers. We do not think about how people will use our stuff - we should - and I try to - but as a rule that's not our department, and if you make it our department bad things happen. Unfortunately companies like Amazon do not take feedback seriously, so now that the devs have unleashed this monstrosity onto Amazon's customers, it will never be changed until The Next Big Thing(TM) comes along. Frankly, at this point, AI generated marketing campaigns have got to be better than what is being foisted onto us by what appears to be unchecked development and marketing arms at major companies, justifying their own paychecks. If nothing else, using AI would force those same people to have to determine the effectiveness of what they were mailing out. In my case it would be a negative score, because I'm pretty close to dropping my Prime subscription and flagging all amazon correspondence as spam.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.