some device updated itself overnight and the interface color palette was completely different/ugly when it restarted. of course the settings to fix that are behind several layers of counter-intuitive puzzle boxes, and the settings search feature is bringing up every other setting for "color" or "theme" that doesn't relate to what im looking for.

so i start aearching online, and i swear to god, the first couple of hits with promising page titles seem to have generative content directing me to access menus and settings that don't exist.

yesterday, i was directed to run some content I'd written through an LLM to standardize readability to our organizational recommendation. never used one, so i found the one that wouldn't make me generate my own user account (copilot).

i give it the prompt, it asks for the attachment, i submit, it claims to be done and tells me i can get a downloadable version. that sounds good, because i don't see the full version in the tesponse. i ask for a downloadable version and it says it will give that to me right away. a minute later nothing, i ask how to download it and it tells me to click the download link above. there isn't one. i figure maybe its a security / browser thing with firefox, so i go through this again with edge, so it can all be Microsoft.

exact same thing happens. keeps telling me it has completed the task and referring me to click a download link that does not exist.

after scouring the interface for any possible place it could be, i search that issue and apparently this is a thing copilot and some llms do. they say they did the thing and refer to download links that don't exist.

this is the shittiest technology ever deployed.