They’re asking us to scale back our usage.

I give it another year. The markets are souring on it, big time. Unless something big and good happens w/ spaceX (because retail investors are underwater on that) the next set of AI IPOs are going to be a disaster.

Ask yourself why all these companies are scrambling to IPO now. Thier investors see the writing on the wall: it isn’t going to happen. The breakthrough. The singularity. An army of virtual workers with the ability to actually do the job. The only thing left for investors to do is push the IPOs to get any kind of return.

They think we’re at a peak of perceived value, and a higher plateau isn’t anywhere in the foreseeable future. Judging by how quickly ALL these private companies are suddenly interested in IPOs, I actually think they think they’ve passed the peak already and are sliding.

You gotta understand, the C-Suite, even the CTO, need to collectively “paint a picture” for investors. And that is art, and art is subjective. If investors wanna hear “we are prepared to leverage a new technology so that we can remain competitive”, then you gotta paint that picture. The buy in, the double down… take it for what it’s worth.

Did you think your C-Suite has ever actually been honest with you about plans, priorities, the value proposition of your work… anything really? Don’t ever confuse what they “say” with what the actually think or believe.

You SHOULD quit, I WISH I was in a position to do so. I’d spin by we could crack a cold one. Hella jealous.

Just like… for your soul… don’t think this is the new normal. Some neat and good and useful stuff is going to come out of this… but the impact that this tech will have on the workforce is being wildly overestimated.

I’m glad they were around because they were singlehandedly posting an obscene amount which really helped lemmy not feel like a ghost town back then.

But, they clearly had mental health issues. No healthy person would post whatever he was doing… probably 1000 posts a day (did the math: 100 posts avg per day. One post every 14 minutes for 2 years straight). Considering HOW unwell they were, they were relatively good natured. But you could see thier worldview was rooted in pretty serious personal issues.

They were tedious, and frustrating, condescending, and a know it all. Absolutely couldn’t admit they were wrong… not even admit that weren’t perfectly right. But… they weren’t ok.

I was glad when they disappeared, but mostly because I was really hoping they had been intervention-d by loved ones. To go cold turkey one day must have been BRUTAL for them.

All in all I think he was the right person at the right time. Thier faults actually DROVE engagement, which was important for a blossoming platform. I don’t think anything they said or did was out of malice.

A complicated person. I really hope they’re doing better.

There was a radio station who’s whole thing was that they would never play nickleback. Then one day they accidentally played nickleback. The Playlists were coming from some head office 5000 miles away, and they missed pulling a nickleback track once it got to the local station.

I don’t want to make any assumptions about your age, but I think a lot of people in north america have forgotten or weren’t alive to experience the smoking world.

You used to just get handed an ashtray at a restaurant. You would just smoke at your desk at the office. Basically there were ashtrays and lighters within arms reach at any moment. Industrial design was to cater to the reality that everyone was smoking pretty much all the time.

If you went back in time and told someone from 1950 that you couldn’t smoke inside, what the cost adjusted price of cigarettes were, that cars don’t have ashtrays or lighters… I think they would genuinely think we had lost the cold war.

So, yes, they’re still making money. But they went from an active participant in the engineering of society to merely an industry selling a product. I think there are very compelling parallels.

I used to work for a company that did them. Your usual deliverables would be paused, including meetings.

It wasn’t “more”. They were great. Most of our internal tooling was prototyped that way, and that tooling was super awesome… because it directly solved the real issues we had in our processes.

My current company is “you can during the designated hackathon events, but you still have to do everything you usually would”. Which is absurd because it means that we don’t always have the option to work late for free.

You shouldn’t respect anyone’s opinion: you hear the opinion and judge the contents on it’s own merit. Everyone you respect will have the odd terrible take, and people you loathe will periodically have a banger thought.

A ton of Dawkins fan boys are huffing copium since the man decided Claude is conscious (and for some incelly reason a woman). A lot of MAGA asshats are trying to torch data centers.

If you offload your own critical evaluation of ideas merely to an adjudication of the speaker… honestly I hear it no differently than “because chatGPT said”.

This is just the laziest ad homium. Tell me, what do you think about the content? I am genuinely curious, and that analysis is 1000x more valuable.