I chuckled at "thinky thinky" mode. If some ai company used this branding it would win a lot of hearts and minds methinks

It could backfire badly.

"Some messages are tough to write, let's thinky-think it through together."

"Golly, your codey-code could use some help. Ask me what I thinky-think!"

"I'm here to help you thinky-think while you worky-work!"

Most true and interesting comment I've read on HN in a while!

Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded.

-- Yogi Berra

This guy was prolific! Wow

Not a guy ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Stark

TIL! Thanks! :)

"Increase opportunity in search results" is hilarious PR. Obviously it's to increase revenue.

Yeah, search HN for the term. It's a relatively big topic of conversation.

What is the purpose of this? To add more bots to Twitter that's already full of them?

Username checks out

For the first time? What about Zune, Nokia/Windows Phone, Windows Vista, attacking open source for decades, Scroogled campaign, all the lost Ballmer years, etc. Microsoft has had tons of blunders over time.

Why do you think so? Seems like the space is fiercely competitive, I would expect it to get more expensive.