I don’t care if AI is useful, it’s not this useful. And it sure as shit isn’t going to see the returns they expect.
I run an internal multi-user AI app. It plugs into almost everyone’s workflows to make things easier (fetches documents, pulls data, contextualizes stuff). It costs $1 per day per user in token costs .
You need a trillion people using these apps for the current valuations to make sense.
I don’t care if AI is useful, it’s not this useful. And it sure as shit isn’t going to see the returns they expect.
And how. Making coders slightly more efficient really just isn’t worth this much. There’s also going to be hell to pay when software created by all of the vibe-coding is found to be full of security holes.
They want to pitch this as unemployment causing efficiency gains, but this shit clearly can’t do anyone’s job that wasn’t already automatable through regular software.
My guess is they are using the Netflix playbook all over again.
Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.
That’s my best case.
Worse case is, that alongside the rising adoption, they will start surreptitiously but effectively modifying general knowledge, thought and behaviour in ways the worst best Marketer would blush about.
If it’s this useful, we’re (and them) fucked too because the economy would collapse under falling aggregate demand due to falling wages and layoffs. The “people will find new jobs” won’t save us from a shift this large without a depression. And all sorts of things happen during depressions.
Yep, pop the bubble and watch these companies deflate instantly. Won’t bother me, my fortune isn’t tied up in bullshit because I believed my own propaganda. Maybe some of those psychopaths will solve their instant financial problems the old fashioned way, from the 100th floor.
This is clearly a bubble.
I don’t care if AI is useful, it’s not this useful. And it sure as shit isn’t going to see the returns they expect.
I run an internal multi-user AI app. It plugs into almost everyone’s workflows to make things easier (fetches documents, pulls data, contextualizes stuff). It costs $1 per day per user in token costs .
You need a trillion people using these apps for the current valuations to make sense.
And how. Making coders slightly more efficient really just isn’t worth this much. There’s also going to be hell to pay when software created by all of the vibe-coding is found to be full of security holes.
They want to pitch this as unemployment causing efficiency gains, but this shit clearly can’t do anyone’s job that wasn’t already automatable through regular software.
My guess is they are using the Netflix playbook all over again.
Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.
That’s my best case.
Worse case is, that alongside the rising adoption, they will start surreptitiously but effectively modifying general knowledge, thought and behaviour in ways the
worstbest Marketer would blush about.“Sure I found that document you needed, and with it, I also found this great new game I know you’ll love. Raid: Shadow Legends, It’s a free to pla…”
I cannot wait for companies spending 300 dollars per user per month for this convenience.
I think the word you’re looking for the is surreptitiously
Thank you kind person, I just fixed it!
If it’s this useful, we’re (and them) fucked too because the economy would collapse under falling aggregate demand due to falling wages and layoffs. The “people will find new jobs” won’t save us from a shift this large without a depression. And all sorts of things happen during depressions.
I’m struggling to find a scenario in which we are not already fucked. I say we “go for broke” and move on.
Pop this thing.
Yep, pop the bubble and watch these companies deflate instantly. Won’t bother me, my fortune isn’t tied up in bullshit because I believed my own propaganda. Maybe some of those psychopaths will solve their instant financial problems the old fashioned way, from the 100th floor.
Shit! Don’t threaten me with a good time!