He doesn’t care, and yes he will.

It’s our job to stand firm and tell him to suck a fart.

Helluva fiddle player though. I saw one of his shows, probably about 1995 if my memory is correct. It was a whale of a time.

Use it. Fuck it. You are cooked either way. It’s not going to replace you, it’s like basically the next evolution of basically an excel formula for tasks (claudes referencing tasks like matching actually does work pretty well), and it’s like an evolution of a search engine. I am unaware of any successful companies that are solely staffed by fancy search engines and next gen excel formulas. You still need a human in the middle. This whole wave is like when they tried to offshore everyone a decade ago. Their customers left in droves because you couldn’t understand the guy on the other side of the conversation, and someone being paid like 30 cents an hour or whatever crap those poor people are exposed to, they aren’t going to have any sort of due care or attention to the details.

Execs continue to funnel money and burn everything to the ground. This whole AI thing might actually be a good thing in the long run, in a round about way, in that it’s going to cause a financial catastrophe, and everyone is going to get so burned by all this overhype and promising that they’ll both be terrified to spend money on stuff like this for quite some time+ it’ll maybe force a day of reckoning where the world maybe finally wakes up as to what the value of a modern executive is (near zero).

I cannot understand people who just slap that shit in without even bothering to check it.

Really? Because that’s exactly what I do. I’m metered by my spend, so I produce just absolutely wholesale volumes of slop, don’t review it or even look at it and just am like fine here you go, this is what you want. No one else reviews it, it gets piled on top of other slop, shits going to really start piling up and breaking. Execs won’t care, they’ll start firing people anyways, it’ll continue to pile up, problems will multiply…

I mean the alternative is do nothing, get fired. Or contribute to a downfall, survive a little longer maybe, still get fired. Or fix it, produce really good work at antagonizing levels of fixing everything, and still get fired. So what’s not to understand here?

Make sure it’s not stolen. This price range can be real territory for the junkie looking to make a quick flip.

I actually think it’s quite normal. LLMs are basically the next wave of social media, where they suck you in, learn quickly to feed you something you are interested in, make you feel like you are the smartest person in the world and just basically grenade endorphins while also speaking misinformation, spew all sorts of half truths and all sorts of other statistically induced algorithmic slop. It’s worse than Heroin, no lies, and is far more dangerous than social media.

It’s definitely gotten pretty weird. I’m on my last warning for inciting violence over saying I’m surprised no one has gotten killed yet, in a poorly designed traffic intersection that results in near-daily collisions near my house. Seriously. Someone reported it for inciting violence, the mods on the thread removed it and Reddit warned me and banned my account for a period. I’ve had a few other ones that were pretty random too.

The problem is, it’s going to leave atomic waste behind it. It’s like an executive detonated nuclear bomb. There’s going to be companies that have millions to billions sunk on non-functional assets and programming. The people who led them into this are going to skip off with a big golden parachute, and there’s going to be no debt available and no assets available left behind to do anything with. There will be zombie companies that just kind of tread into irrelevancy, if you are lucky enough to be employed by one, then you’ll be fine. Everyone else is fucked.

Just play the game. And start squirrelling money away like you never have before.

Both actually look pretty awesome. I’ll have to check them out!

I think we are already one-too-many RIF and cost of living increases past the point where employees are incentivized.

This is way way worse than the dotcom bubble. The dotcom bubble didn’t burn a fraction of the cash this shit has. And of course it’s all debt, so we all know what happens when that happens.

I’ve been debated all week instructing my advisors to go to cash on my investment accounts. I think it’s a little early for that, but the closer and closer we get to that September October period, the more and more I’m going to consider it. I’m naturally a skeptic, and by habit I see catastrophy everywhere, but I think this one might actually be the big one. Maneuvering out of these bad ones takes a lot of government synchronicity, and well, that worries me the most here.

Management prefers to make the risk because they quite literally don’t give a toss. They understand exactly 0% of what it is that you do, if they don’t walk by you every morning they don’t even know your name, and even if they get caught absolutely asleep on the job producing absolute slop, oh well they pull the golden parachute cord and off to the next gig.

Literally no one can point at anything that AI has produced that actually works, or does, well, anything at my place of main employment. Yet we are all in. Everything is "Oh Michael has something great that was created and we can’t wait for you to see it, and Michael’s like either a) “Sure thing bob, we are just fine tuning it, can’t wait to show it off”, or b) “Yes I can’t wait to share it with everyone”, and then literally just never does.

It’s literally a circus. I have a woman on my team, who wanted to try it, wrote a pretty good prompt, asking for something pretty basic. Who like an hour later was like you know what, I’ll just do it myself, I could have had this done 45 minutes ago. It’s literal crap. Pages and pages and pages of absolute walls of text. All fancy writing, feels insightful, but of course nothing actually useful.

Hit the nail on the head with the hammer there. It’s only superficial. I agree, I’ve got it to produce stuff that looks great too, looks super factual. You feel like hey maybe this ain’t so bad.

Then you review it and dig in. Inevitably you are like wait this ain’t quite accurate, like in isolation it is, but combined with this it’s not. Then you notice those averages it’s calculating, big long walls of text but then even just a simple arithmetic average you are like there’s no way that’s right and you break out the calc and sure enough it’s not even close.

Makes you feel like a savant though. It’s literally executive boomer fuel, and that’s why we are here. It doesn’t get their endorphins fired up, it’s literally an orgasm of thoughts as to how low their payroll is going and how much their bonus is going to be.

I took a shit during the time I was invested in AI training.

I have a whole day of it in a couple weeks. Speaking of that, does anyone have any good games to recommend on Steam, or PS5 or something? Any good shows to binge?

Here comes the rug pull.

Won’t everyone think of the executives and their bonuses! All the costs this is going to add. Quelle Horror!!!

Which they have absolutely enshitified. My kid wanted it for Christmas, but he’s like super young, so I had to install it on my account and then allow him family access. Spent my entire afternoon 3.5 seconds from throwing the laptop through the window getting that setup to work.

I think you’ve just described pretty much every corporation in North America though, if not even Europe. I read somewhere the other day it’s called the Rat Enterprise and the Rat Economy, which I think it’s an apt description. Nobody produces much of value anymore, it’s just largely bullshit and smoke and mirrors. Anyone who produces physical goods has enshitified them to basically just passable enough quality.

A decade later I’m still scratching my head over Snapchat. Obviously I’m the dummy here, but I just never really understood it.

It’s not always this simple, but generally higher wall counts>infill percentage for strength and durability (and filament use)

So what do we do when these companies are all just AI talking to each other and AI creating content for AI to ingest and then make AI comments that other AI comments back on?

This whole thing is just getting comical. Every night I become more and more convinced the next great depression has arrived.