My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:

I’m eavesdropping (well, they’re so loud I can’t ignore them) on two young startup guys at this coffee shop, a version of a conversation I’ve heard a million times. But what’s striking vs 10 or 15 years ago is… almost nothing they’re talking about is the tech. Everything is financial engineering and how to hustle the ecosystem. Nothing about products or even markets and competition, all fussing about banks and crypto and VCs. Explains a lot about my fatigue over the industry in general.

Twitter can't pay its bills. The banks that funded the acquisition can't syndicate the debt. Revenue plummeted and shows no signs of improving. There aren't even any plans to improve revenue. Stock awards are worthless.

How app changelogs should be vs. how app changelogs usually are.

This article about OpenAI from 2020 is pretty wild: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/17/844721/ai-openai-moonshot-elon-musk-sam-altman-greg-brockman-messy-secretive-reality/

right now, when people talk about AI, we tend to really like to lump it together into this idea of "the AI", like "the algorithm" or whatever. we all know we're being facetious when we do that, it's just fun to say, an appealing meme. obviously there are a lot of different machine learning models and approaches, but mostly "AI" is used to denote this singular type of smart-yet-stupid limerick-writer and art plagiarist, presumably made in the image of its creator, the witless and amoral tech guy