I write things on my blog sometimes https://fasterandworse.com/
Glad you covered this. Can only imagine b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk telling their employees to work faster to produce the swill
Surprisingly, not a sexbot!
would be a good album name
Job interviews by AI avatars are real and happening, apparently https://www.404media.co/ai-avatars-are-doing-job-interviews-now/
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I imagine Sam lecturing wasted teenage me at a party about the logical efficiencies of getting high on psychedelics vs beer and cigarettes. I’m trying to focus on his face while he just talks and talks and I’m teetering and sweating and he just keeps talking
Maybe I’m scarred but I have a reflexive distrust for any usage of “pumped” or “super excited” in a commercial context. No matter the subject.
They’re gonna start announcing real concrete nefarious-ass use cases real soon
Some CTO jobs will go away, but maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place
What if AI was only ever meant to be the Akinator?
It’s all about finding an angle, no matter how creepy, and going for it
It’s so frustrating to see how egregious the future tense has become in all the talking about these products. Also the anticipation of a killer app is never going to sound not desperate.
when companies complain about how it’s impossible to operate profitably under some safety or privacy regulation: gee, that sounds like a great opportunity for someone to innovate.
Wow, so glad you came to this because it’s bang on with the main idea of “what is innovation if it’s not a response to adversity?”
And thank you for what you say about the manifesto vs persuasion style. I wonder how much of these details need to be spelled out or if it can be a more concise lead that lets the reader fill in the gaps about how much delivery of software has changed to reduce that demand for substantive purpose in the product.
I hope I can bring it all together soon. I’m currently researching domestic cockroach infestations to talk about “taking over” vs “being invited by the environment”
yeah, I’m wondering if this AI take is incorrect. I’ll research it further
Good to know - thesaurus dot com is infected
https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3l4lwvra6r22e
it’s ok, it’s a small part of the bit and I’m solid in my position. Was hoping to get some kind of response though, ngl
not provocative enough, i see
is this what gaslighting is?
It’s like how “marketing” became “UX research/design”