Stellar CoyoteMay 1, 2025
nixCraft 🐧
Guess what job Mark holds? He is VC. No wonder he said AI will replace all jobs except his own because he is so special. He said AI will write software, create music, direct movies, write best novels, perform surgeries on human hearts, and whatnot. The only thing it won’t be able to do is invest money as a VC, which must be reserved for special people like him. #ai
May 1, 2025 at 10:26amWeb
Show threadArtemisMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft It's funny because I'm relatively certain his job can be replaced with a D20 and a bag of money.
Show threadDieuMay 1, 2025
@art_codesmith @nixCraft once read that a study found there to be surprisingly well-performing portfolios held by the illustrious group of ... dead people. Maybe Marc's a member, at least he doesn't seem at all well to me.
Show threadJyrgen NMay 4, 2025
@art_codesmith @nixCraft IMO it is funny because (not even kidding) I think that VC might indeed be something that could be done well by some machine learning thingy (avoiding the term "AI", because it is not "I").
Show threaddushintoMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft he's such a asshole
Show threadKid ManiaMay 1, 2025
@rickpelletier @nixCraft
I think you might mean 'craven piece-of-shit.'
Show threadLyubomir Ganev May 1, 2025
@nixCraft he's clearly never had to do anything with a legacy codebase.
Show threadEaterOfSnacksMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft There's always going to be room for those who practice traditional crafts. Making guillotines, for example.
Show threadfranco_vazzaMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft and what is meant by VC by the way
Show threadBenediktMay 1, 2025
@franco_vazza @nixCraft I think it's venture capitalist... But also just guessing
Show threadfranco_vazzaMay 1, 2025
@Bene @nixCraft thanks! Ok...next I will need to Google what that even means, but it's my problem I guess.
Show threadnaught101May 1, 2025
@franco_vazza @Bene @nixCraft TBH, I suspect not knowing what VC means indicates that you're doing life correctly.
Show threadfranco_vazzaMay 1, 2025
@naught101 @Bene @nixCraft ahahahah maybe. It's just that I've never dealt with a VC, whatever this is, in astronomy, it's not their habitat it seems.
Show threadSolblackMay 1, 2025
@Bene @franco_vazza @nixCraft I was thinking to Vibe Coder 😅
Show threadrhempelMay 1, 2025
@Bene @franco_vazza @nixCraft I think you mean vulture capitalist.
Show threadJhooperMay 1, 2025
@franco_vazza @nixCraft Im just spit balling, but maybe "Vulture Cunt"?
Show threadGeorge BMay 1, 2025

@franco_vazza @nixCraft

Venture Capitalist, basically someone with money who invests in companies, usually at the early stages.

Show threadHyperlink Your HeartMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft Guy who has never experienced art: "my investment decisions are art, actually"
Show threadStefan RitterMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft The most demanding role for Vincent D'Onofrio in a long time.
Show threadHarrMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft 😂
Show threadNick Selby May 1, 2025
@nixCraft @catsalad What a fucking knob
Show threadWeltzeitgeistMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft VCs are modern slaveholders. The most parasitic class in our times. The scum of the earth.
Show threadCartyBostonMay 1, 2025

@nixCraft Look, you can care or not care but every frat party that he walked into, everyone stopped and thought "what is up with that dude's head?"

The trauma changes a person.

Show threadNicolaMay 1, 2025
@CartyBoston @nixCraft Leave humpty alone!!
Show threadCartyBostonMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft the rare circumstance when the ad hominem is the least cruel of the alternatives.
Show threadSeth GalitzerMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft Oh how the mighty have fallen. I suppose everybody has forgotten what he did before he became a colossal a-hole. Too late now because he's a colossal a-hole.
Show threadDcnPat NE4POMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft I would argue AI is more suited to making VC decisions. It's very good at taking in large datasets and discovering "hidden" patterns.
Show threadKrautnapped™May 1, 2025
@nixCraft It’s cause AI doesn’t yet have the classic Silicon Valley egg shaped head.
Show threadElias MårtensonMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft more art than science? Does he mean the art that he claims that ai can do?
Show threadAl & Val's Modern HomesteadingMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft Unlike, of course, Wall Street.
Show threadTuring IncompleteMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft Investing money is more art than science, but art is 100% science.
Show threadhaagenMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft to me it sounds he operates on pure luck only! Hubris!
Show threadRene WoollerMay 1, 2025

@nixCraft this is great example of how a technological singularity must be preceded by a capital singularity, unless we create system change.

It’s not hard to imagine that anything would be more tolerable than a capital singularity.

Show threadEgeeMay 1, 2025

@nixCraft When the first AI invests successfully, the VC ladder will crumble and all these chodes will come falling down off it.

It will be glorious 😩

Show threadgrob (teeth era) 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️May 1, 2025
@nixCraft ~~taste, psychology, chaos tolerance~~ patterns. AI is gonna love it, Marc. This is class-war propaganda.
Show threadDaniel S. ReichenbachMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft what he is actually saying is that VC follows no verifiable principles and everyone in it just makes stuff up every day. So it's actually the one job any LLM could take over currently.
Show threadNegahyphenMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft It's funny since AI is already outperforming all human traders in the stock, bond, and other asset markets. I thought this guy styled himself as a futurist?
Show threadDan SugalskiMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft Gotta admire, or at least boggle at, the ego of someone willing to stand up and say "we suck at our jobs, no really we're *horrible* at them!" in pubic with no sense of shame, irony, or self-reflection.
Show threadCaveDaveMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft ah yes VC, truly the hardest and most important profession in the world
Show threadFreevoltMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft They truly think they can surpass their nature as a human being with money.
Show threadGilgwathMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft the entire investor class should just be put on a big yacht without internet access and sent on a never ending cruse. Of course we'll send them supplies. All the champagne and caviar the ever wanted. Then they can lecture each other all day and the rest of the world is much better off.
Show threadMinisterofimpedimentsMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft “…it takes a special kind of intelligence to piss away billions of dollars on other people’s bad ideas. AI can’t do that…a dartboard could…unless you are good at darts in which case it can’t. Anyway, I actually need to go…my wife’s purse dog needs a new LV collar in beige. I’m taking the jet…no the place is about 15 minutes away. I’m just going to have the pilot take a few loops around the city to relax and come back.”
Show threadBill, organizer of stuffMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft Richard and Daniel Susskind, in The Future of The Professions, cite a survey that ended up concluding that the vast majority of professionals believe that AI can replace almost every profession - except their own.
Show threadBradleyMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft if we could have replaced Mark with AI 20 years ago we would be much better off now
Show threadGutterPoetryMay 1, 2025

@nixCraft

So AI can't do narcissism?

Show threadK. Reid Wightman  🌻  May 1, 2025
@nixCraft Nobody tell him that one of the first machine learning companies I knew of was in the early 2000s, and it was...stock trading.
Show threadWillow "Wolveric" CatkinMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft If Hitman taught me anything, it's that I don't want to be at the mercy of a surgical robot... 
Show threadMutant From HoosierMay 1, 2025

@nixCraft the capitalist who provides no value at all imagines a system where there are no more workers to exploit.

Dumb ass.

Show threadBionickMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft AI can't replace VC because it's "More an art than a science". I have bad news for you in that case
Show threadnaught101May 1, 2025
@nixCraft what a gronk
Show threadpurple: licenced to sticky plasterMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft AI can't replace me because what I do is an art not a science, but it can replace all these artists
Show threadDoughnut Lollipop 【記録係】  May 1, 2025
@nixCraft Pretty sure AI would be better at VC than humans. 
Show threadRichard AyresMay 1, 2025

@nixCraft in a bad way, he is right. The main job of a VC is having lots of capital, or at least controlling it. Either you get a machine (AI) to tell you where to put it or you decide for yourself. Whatever, you're still a VC.

If you don't have capital, then it sucks to be you.

Show threadCupcakeRobMay 1, 2025
@nixCraft or with that big pile of cash they make sure no one takes their jobs.
Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤May 1, 2025

@nixCraft

More about **_MARC_** from Wikipedia…

"Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American businessman and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen

Yes, he's in VC, but his experience and his developer background leads him to think AI couldn't do that job.

Marc Andreessen - Wikipedia