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carnage4life

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This reminds we of the belief that no code tools like Airtable & Zapier make developers obsolete.

In reality no code tools compete with freelance developers from Upwork for small projects not in-house development teams. Even then lack of a good story for debugging & testing hurt

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/wixs-new-tool-taps-ai-to-generate-smartphone-apps/

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The most PM thing ever happened to me this week. I'm declaring Google Doc comments bankruptcy. I can't keep up and I give up.

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I love that tech companies are leaning into the positioning that LLMs as virtual employees which definitely doesn’t contribute to the perception companies can fire people and replace them with AI today.

I’m sure there will be no negative repercussions of this. 🙃

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The problem with OpenAI since ChatGPT launched is that its behavior is not consistent with a research lab that’s worried it might accidentally build Skynet or Ultron. It acted like a startup.

That the employees it hired under that premise are now loudly quitting is unsurprising.

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This question is kind of silly to ask in a country that’s close to electing a president who’s been found guilty of fraud, rape and falsifying documents. And that’s just within the last year.

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OpenAI is going through a similar problem Google has been going through for years.

You hire a bunch of engineers and sell them on a mission but then it turns out their principles get in the way of the company making money so they feel betrayed.

Then you start firing them.
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/openai-employee-says-he-was-fired

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Massive generation gap. In the 2000s, parents canceled Eminem while the kids loved him. In the 2020s, kids are canceling Eminem while the parents love him.

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I love the specific brain damage that people on Blind have where they can’t understand what you wrote until they know your total compensation.

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GPUs are a scarce resource and if you run multiple companies that are all using AI then you’ll have to play favorites.

Matt Levine had a newsletter on the topic of Musk’s investors now having to guess which company he’ll focus on. Looks like Tesla lost this round.

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This is another tone deaf AI pitch from a tech CEO. A valuable feature for workers would be intelligent summaries of meetings you didn’t attend.

A deepfake me that can attend my Zoom calls and make decisions is at best hype and at worst insulting to other meeting attendees.

I’ll make him a deal. I’ll use this tech when Zoom’s CEO uses this tech to attend Zoom calls for earnings reports and his leadership meetings so he can spend more time with his family.

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The family analogy breaks down fairly quickly in today’s tech world. You aren’t disowning family members to keep your stock price high.

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After Pixar’s layoffs, the other shoe has dropped and Disney is revamping they make movies. They will move away from unique personal stories from their directors lives like Luca and Turning Red.

Instead they will focus on sequels like this summer’s Inside Out 2.

Finding Nemo and The Incredibles are the candidates most likely to be future sequels. They are also going to monitor the performance of their Inside Out spinoff on Disney+ to decide if they’ll keep making shows.

Creativity is done now

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I saw this afternoon and it reminded me a lot of Rogue One. A prequel that is itself a great movie which while not being as great as the original comes quite close in various ways.

I’m honestly shocked this isn’t doing well at the box office.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ out of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Ads are the most obvious form of enshitification of the Amazon experience and returns is a close second. Long gone are the days of simple, no questions asked returns.

Given 1 out of 7 retail goods purchased in the US are returned, it’s proven unsustainable to make it easy to do.

Making it harder to return things is simply good business for a retailer.

On a related note, I’ve had Amazon itself notify me items were not delivered but then make it hard to then file for a refund or a re-delivery.

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Thinking about all of the advice I’ve gotten that’s caused this reaction.

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It’s still shocking that this just happens every quarter now.

Over $20 billion in profit every quarter and a few hundred people cut from various divisions each quarter as well.

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I’d watch this as a reality show.

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The world’s greatest tech investor strikes again.

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Trying to explain to my kid why a convicted felon can't vote but can still be president.

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34 felonies down, 57 to go.

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A dynamic in tech right now is that there’s a handful of companies making the majority of the profits and revenue in the sector.

Typically these companies spread their wealth through hiring and acquisition which are both down for different reasons. How will this impact the tech industry?

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Salesforce stock price plunge over tiny misses in revenue and earnings reads like a narrative failure versus a financial one.

The company is forecasting under 10% growth for the first time ever and said deals are taking longer as companies scrutinize budgets.

A -16% stock price drop seems excessive. There’s also a question of whether this isn’t a canary in the coal mine for other SAAS players over the course of the year. Maybe AI spending is sucking all of the oxygen out of the room?

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The fascinating thing about this story of how Sam Altman signed a deal with Apple to add ChatGPT to iOS despite Satya Nadella’s concerns is that it’s now an open secret that Apple is betting on OpenAI.

As in Apple had no leverage to maintain the secrecy.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cements-control-as-he-secures-apple-deal

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A survey by the Reuters Institute and Oxford of 12,000 people across 6 countries shows a huge gap between adoption and hype around generative AI tools.

Just 1% using tools like ChatGPT on a daily basis in Japan, rising to 2% in France and the UK, and 7% in the USA.

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“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” - Abraham Lincoln

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