David Pierce17h ago
“What makes A.I. truly persuasive isn’t that it praises our ideas or insights, it’s that it restates and extends them in a more compelling form than we initially offered, and does so while reflecting a polished image of ourselves back at us.”

YEESH this is a good piece on what the AI world feels like right now https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/opinion/ai-claude-chatgpt-gemini-mcluhan.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco

Marshall McLuhan was right about Claude, too.

The New York Times
Show threadAnil Dash17h ago
It’s good, but I think the thing that Ezra (understandably) misses, like a lot of folks not from within the tech world, is that *these products are made by product managers who were the best in the world at making addictive products*. They got billions addicted to apps _without_ them having all of your individual data and the ability to generate personalized narrative that sounds like a human voice. The uncanny aspect he’s feeling is just former Meta PMs reaching ad targeting’s final form.
Show threadDavid Pierce
Agreed, though Ezra does mention the “it’s a product” of it all! I was just so struck by the way he described why people are attracted to AI, which matches exactly a million conversations I’ve had recently (and is deeply terrifying tbh)
Mar 29 at 3:42pmWeb
Show threadAnil Dash16h ago
The thing I wish is that there were a way to make more visible the decree of *control* they have over this. It’s the Dril “turn the knob up while looking back at the audience” tweet, but about how much they want to cook your brain.