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djjfksbxn··on It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
> A bit of a "dog bites man" story to note that a CEO of a hot company is hyping the future beyond reason.

Why is it in your worldview a CEO “has to lie”?

Are you incapable of imagining one where a CEO is honest?

> The real story of LLMs is revealed when you posit a magical technology that can print any car part for free.

I’ll allow it if you stipulate that randomly and without reason when I ask for an alternator it prints me toy dinosaur.

> It is easy to imagine that the inventor of such a technology

As if the unethical sociopath TFA is about is any kind of, let alone the, inventor of genai.

> Being able to generate code/text/images is of no use to someone who doesn't know what to do with it.

Again, conveniently omitting the technology’s ever present failure modes.

djjfksbxn··on Can we cut the AI Agent for X thing already
Unfortunately, sloppyjoes are gonna slop.

When someone’s rationale and motivation lack reason it’s difficult to ask them self correct.

It seems Money is the slowest at coming around to identifying dark patterns in pitches. Until then, expect more.

Just ignore the bullshit, and work on what excites you.

It’s the only way to stay sane while watching this cycle replay itself over and over again.