Anyone in my network know Natalie Merchant? She talked about AI and I'd love to ask her a few questions.

“I've walked these streets in a carnival of sights to see”

Shrimp Jesus *is* quite a sight to see.

“all the cheap thrill seekers, the vendors and the dealers, they crowded around me”

With every product imaginable introducing “AI” “features” that mimic the sensation of gambling…

“in a spectacle of wealth and poverty”

Unimaginable money poured into these technologies while destroying many people's livelihoods and exploiting the vulnerable.

“I've walked these streets in the mad house asylum they can be”

Has a more eloquent expression of our collective feelings ever been said?

“wild eyed misfit prophet”

I think we all know who she's talking about.

“have I been blind, have I been lost, inside my self and my own mind, hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen?”

What many of us are saying now.

“have I been wrong, have I been wise to shut my eyes, and play along, hypnotized, paralyzed, by what my eyes have found?

What may others will be saying soon.

And the craziest part to this whole story? She released this in 1995! So ahead of her time. Genius. Legendary. A hero!

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In #ThoughtLeadering mode for the next three minutes:

It has been said for years that an #Engineer (of any discipline) should be a T or a TT Engineer (very few bright ones can add one or two more Ts over the course of decades). Current LLMs generate the illusion of α #haircomb (TTTTTTT) Engineer, where in fact they generate a #flatliner.

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there's a single advice i have in the whole SPA/MPA/React sucks debate:

always build components with a function body, i.e. use `return`. you never know when you need local functions in there. and the git diff becomes fugly when you have to go add brackets everywhere.

#thoughtleadering

```
// Do not:
const MyComponent = () => <div />;

// Do:
const MyComponent = () => {
return <div />;
};
```