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The weirdest thing about this article, slop, part-slop, or not, is that even the memory of reading Pretchett when I was younger immediately brought me back into a different state of mind.

Even the phrases that don't make sense and the obvious signals of AI writing, like miscounted words, didn't pull me out of the reverie and the reflection of the time when everything that was written came from the mind of a human.

I've never thought about it like this before, but the divide between digital natives and digital naives might be minuscule compared to the divide between people who read the works of other humans and those who constantly live in fear of reading a hallucination.

If "we need to have this done by Nov 12th" is the milestone they were going for, and not a functional flow, then it was a great success.

Same here, been reporting the broken flow to customer support. An interesting part is the "we'll send you an email to confirm you're you", followed by a "enter validation code here" screen that immediately gets forwarded to the re-enrollment message. Also, no confirmation emails are being sent. Very surprised to see this being deployed to prod.

Hey, Podscan is still very much B2B, I just had another Enterprise subscriber a few minutes ago :D

I am actively moving further away from B2C, and even though I have a few individual users, the true power of the business shines with agencies, departments and enterprise companies.

Love the episode and the guests, but let me point out just how good the hosted pages look at Transistor, the podcast hosting used here. I'm not affiliated, though I run my own shows there, too. The UI just vanishes into the background and puts the conversation right into the center. That's good SaaS :D

Looking at the A16 chip and the neural engine on it, I am really happy to see machine learning and "AI stuff" moving onto my phone, away from the cloud.

I can't wait to see phones becoming a place for _useful_ AI use cases — with the privacy improvements of on-device computation.

Ive tried letting AI write my articles. It was horrible. I tried ignoring AI-powered tools (such as grammar checkers, summarizers, rewriters, speech-to-text apps), and the writing process felt sluggish.

The middle ground is what works best for me. I use generative AI exlusively mid-process, but neither for input (ideas) nor output (actual drafts.)

Here's how I write:

- I source my ideas from contemplation or conversations on social media. Topics discussed there have at least some pre-validated relevance - I sit down for ten minutes and dictate my thoughts into a tool like AudioPen (no affiliation, just a fan) which summarizes my 10 minutes in 5 or 6 paragraphs. THIS is the AI step. The tool suggests a few paragraph structures that I cycle through until I find a good one. - From there, I write my draft, following that outline. No more AI tools here other than grammar checking at the end.

AI is a great writing partner. It's a horrible writer.

SEO optimization is actively destroying the archives of blogs out there. Pruning articles to rank better is rewarded. Removing knowledge to "play the game" is a viable path to making money.

The saving grace here? The existence of the Wayback Machine. A non-profit by the Internet Archive that is severely underfunded. If you ever needed a reason to donate, this is probably it. And even then, the survival of this information depends on a singular platform. Digital historians of the future will have a tough job.

I appreciate this idea. Podcasts have the unique quality of allowing your company culture to subtly permeate the airwaves on which they're consumed. I listen to above/board by Paul Jarvis and Jack Ellis who are building Fathom Analytics. Besides discussing the business behind the product and the technical challenges, I can sense how much it means to them to bootstrap an independent business and to be a real alternative to the Google products we all loathe. This is the kind of information you can't reliably communicate through landing page copy. The human voice has subtlety no marketing text could or should ever want to express.

If this is a window into the soul of a business, then it's a competitive advantage in a world of brands eager to be perceived as authentic. There's still lots of room for manipulation, but it becomes harder to fake when you're recording a show.

Making the best of it :D

Was Captain Hindsight an option? :D