Whenever an org says it wants to use ‘AI’ for a better customer experience, it is almost certainly lying.
Customers are not clamoring for shitty chat bots that extend the time to get to a real human. Customers are not asking for LLM-authored SEO-driven FAQ pages. Customers are not asking for yet more hero images of people with extra fingers.
The org is likely only interested in using ‘AI’ to reduce effort, save money, cut staff.
@aardrian "#AI" is a prime example of the damage done by #VC funding too. Considering the energy use, these services are operating at a loss just to gain market share, it's warping the real competitive picture and people are falling for it. Happens every. Single. Time.
By the time the VC money runs out, there's enough buy-in to make it hard to reverse, the damage to society will have been done, and the VCs can start raking in the dough...
(A ‘startup’ is not just any new small business. It’s a temporary venture capital funded company that must either fail fast or exit. An exit is where you’re either bought by Big Tech or become Big Tech through an IPO. To understand this better, if you have a sustainable small company, a startup is what will put you out of business.)
If you want to understand how startups and venture capital work, go to 26:24 on the recording of my talk “Excuse Me, Your Unicorn Keeps Shitting In My Back Yard, Can He Please Not?” from 2016:
«VC's require hype to get a return on investment because they need an IPO or an acquisition […] You don't get rich by the technology working, you get rich by people believing it works long enough that one of those two things gets you some money.»
Silicon Valley has just one service they sell, available to the highest bidder: exploitation.
It might look like a phone, a laptop, a social network, or even a car but it’s always just the same thing, decorated differently: a mechanism by which to addict you, extract value from you, and exploit you for profit.
Emblematic of #VC#tech brain rot. Celebrating CEOs colluding to keep wages down. These people are gross. Oh, and it was highly illegal. Do these people love #SteveJobs or committing crimes? Either way, putting it in writing is a very stupid move.
“Venture capital is private subsidy that keeps the startup alive long enough until enough people have joined their platform. At this point, it’s too late. By being part of the platform we have created its value. This is the value that is sold in an exit. The only way to resist this system is to not build that value in the first place.”
#Starliner? Failure to launch. #777x? Failure to launch. #VC-25B? Failure to launch.
New #MoMA? Failure to launch. #SAOC "Judas"*, the E-4B Nightwatch replacement? Failure to launch.
“The subtlety of it is pretty insidious. Like some kind of distributed long con, played out over and over, in the midst of so many millions of other simultaneous ones.”
The #Bootstrapping#Startup Operating System
Nice post from Ash Maurya, the old good idea of running #lean always apply. Getting #customer- funded not #VC-funded is better:
#dailyreport#emacs#vc#versioncontrol
I answered 15 tricky questions for job at topics of DS, ML,
DL. I used ChatGPT to help me. 😈 All answers should be
correct, I will public my calculations after two week if I
wouldn't get offer. ◕‿◕
I learned VC (Version Control) package for Emacs. ⛏ VC isn't a
mode it is permanently available functionality ⚠, can be used
from file-visiting buffer, Dired buffer, VC Directory buffer.
VC offer very powerful commands: ᕙ( •̀ _ •́ )ᕗ
vc-next-action - universal intellectual action ✭
vc-annotate - for each line, show the latest revision in which
it was modified. ⋆
vc-region-history - Display the history of changes made in the
region of file visited by the current buffer. ★
I learned project management for Emacs with EDE and projectile
and I found it useless. Because Dired + Bookmarks just do the
same.
😶