Tim Bray

Got maximal hair-on-fire financial doomerism about the #GenAI bubble if ya want it: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/

Genuinely scary.

[But: Too long, I stopped reading after I got past the data-centers-and-GPUs narrative and into the software engineering stuff, which was not particularly penetrating.]

The AI Industry Is Lying To You

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Show threadBruce Elrick12h ago

@timbray The Potemkin economy.

I'm glad in some ways that I have not managed to get a job in over 2 years. I found regular corporate bulshytte to be soul-sucking, I'm not sure how I would fare today.

Show threadDavid Neto8h ago

@timbray

37 minute read.

Ed needs an editor.
Think of what Lincoln said at Gettysburg in 220 words.