u/ProgrammerByDay

I mocked up a project a few weeks back did not publicly expose it on purpose.
I took the inital mock up and finished it locally.

Can you browse other peoples projects in vercel?

I got an email to my company email (which is even weird because I created my Vervel with my gmail) describing what I was working on an how they could help finsh it with their AI tools.

Trying to figure where I leaked my plan. Another crazy part is one of the features they talk about is really one I never got going but was in my original prompt as a soft requirement.

I'm not crazy worried they have my idea as ideas are dime a dozen, I'm just looking to see how I ended up making it public.

I’m still cracking up over a call I just had with AT&T.

I was helping my dad with his account. AT&T has been forcing him off his old DSL and onto their cellular home internet. He’s been trying for weeks… maybe months… to get this thing activated.

Apparently it took so long that they actually canceled the order.

So I call in thinking, “No big deal, let’s just get it activated.”

The rep tells me:

“Sorry sir, the only thing we can do is send you a new unit.”

I ask multiple times, “That’s really the only option?”

He confirms every time.

So I finally say, “Fine, send a new one.”

He puts me on hold… comes back… and says:

“Actually I can’t do that because you already have an account.”

I’m like… “Yeah… that’s the account I’m calling about. The one I want you to activate.”

Then begins the most impressive commitment to a script I’ve ever heard. We basically go in circles while he reads the same thing over and over.

Eventually he gives me two options:

1. Drive the current unit to UPS and ship it back.
2. If I want internet faster, I can go to an AT&T store and get one right away.

So I ask what I thought was the obvious question:

“Okay… can I just bring the old unit to the AT&T store and swap it?”

“No.”

Then he proceeds to explain how UPS works… that I bring it there, they ship it back to AT&T, etc.

Sir… I know how UPS works.

At this point he suggests:

“If you’d like, you can just cancel the service.”

So I ask for a supervisor.

His response?

“I completely understand if you’d like to cancel your services.”

Me: “Wait… just to be clear… you’re recommending I cancel, and you still won’t transfer me to a supervisor?”

Him: “Yes.”

So I thanked him, hung up… and activated my dad’s Verizon Communications home internet.

Honestly, I’m not even mad. I’m just impressed by that level of commitment to the script.

ATT really needs a process to (re)activate a device without having to ship hardware all over.