uptownJimmy

This is the general consensus, last I checked. PKD was a meth addict, and it absolutely played a major part in his "visions".

It's not irrational to be irritated by bad writing.

All scams are inherently destructive. Everything else is co-morbidity.

Surely GitHub can (and should) find someone less unhinged to run the company.

Maaaaan, this is so cool. I'm geekin'.

I'll not be taking advice on how many hours per week I should work from someone who doesn't work at all.

"purity" is a word that sets off alarm bells for me, every time.

Google's "search results" are the textbook definition of a monopolized good/service. The whole thing is almost a casino, rigged to the point of absurdity.

There has been nothing in my life so disillusioning as working on a Web app for a company that is more or less required to play Google's game.

Whatever you decide, don't assume that it would be hard to find devs.

There are a lot of us who prefer to work for real businesses offering real products/services, and avoid working in the startup world with all its concomitant pipe dreams, wishful thinking and scams.

That is absolutely one of the A-tier "certain type of a criminal a55hole".

Google's market share was suffering because they have been using their dominance to force everyone to participate in the "game the search engine" scam that Google was selling, which exists only to cheat the Google search engine.

Once enough of us realized that Google search results are usually just paid ads, what's the point anymore?

It's insane, and "AI" isn't going to fix any of it.

The rot in our tech economy is astonishing.

I remain confused as to why anyone would take VCs seriously at all, much less want to be friends with them. They mostly give strong vibes of "sociopath" and "malignant narcissist".

"One is that these generative AI tools are already good enough to replace many writing tasks, whether it’s writing an article, or a social media post."

Good enough to what? Give me a headache when I try to read any of the articles that Google coughs up when I search almost anything these days?

The auto-generated pap that passes for "good enough" is literally a tsunami of near-meaningless word-porridge that is burying the Web in nonsense. Might as well shove large chunks of lorem ipsum into your "articles" or "social media posts".

Maybe you would deign to elaborate? It's not a fun and informative discussion unless you are willing to offer something more specific than "you are wrong".

Gift us with specifics.

I'm pretty sure the biggest problem with social media is the staggering number of people spreading disinformation and lies. So that's something you can stop doing to help fix the thing you hate so much, right there! It's a win-win for everyone, I'm sure of it.