It’s like how “marketing” became “UX research/design”

Glad you covered this. Can only imagine b-movie villain types sitting behind a desk telling their employees to work faster to produce the swill

Surprisingly, not a sexbot!

would be a good album name

Job interviews by AI avatars are real and happening, apparently https://www.404media.co/ai-avatars-are-doing-job-interviews-now/

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I imagine Sam lecturing wasted teenage me at a party about the logical efficiencies of getting high on psychedelics vs beer and cigarettes. I’m trying to focus on his face while he just talks and talks and I’m teetering and sweating and he just keeps talking

Maybe I’m scarred but I have a reflexive distrust for any usage of “pumped” or “super excited” in a commercial context. No matter the subject.

They’re gonna start announcing real concrete nefarious-ass use cases real soon

Some CTO jobs will go away, but maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place

Thanks!

What if AI was only ever meant to be the Akinator?

It’s all about finding an angle, no matter how creepy, and going for it

It’s so frustrating to see how egregious the future tense has become in all the talking about these products. Also the anticipation of a killer app is never going to sound not desperate.

when companies complain about how it’s impossible to operate profitably under some safety or privacy regulation: gee, that sounds like a great opportunity for someone to innovate.

Wow, so glad you came to this because it’s bang on with the main idea of “what is innovation if it’s not a response to adversity?”

And thank you for what you say about the manifesto vs persuasion style. I wonder how much of these details need to be spelled out or if it can be a more concise lead that lets the reader fill in the gaps about how much delivery of software has changed to reduce that demand for substantive purpose in the product.

I hope I can bring it all together soon. I’m currently researching domestic cockroach infestations to talk about “taking over” vs “being invited by the environment”

yeah, I’m wondering if this AI take is incorrect. I’ll research it further

In a way computers transformed from being a thing for making stuff to being just a window to the internet for me, and since that change it has been an endless struggle to use them for making stuff again

I have really fond memories of using computers before they were connected to the internet. I loved drawing pixel art in microsoft paint, and could get in adhd hyperfocus for hours doing that. I keep this image in my archives in the hope that one day I’ll be able to resist the internet long enough to complete my dream of doing the whole of sydney harbour. But I have memories of doing this image over and over to get a good scale for having enough detail on traffic I planned to add to the bridge, as well as understanding the best ways to approach the oblique perspective in pixels (double pixel corners or single?) also how to get perfect arcs. So much time for such a small image, but all fond memories. Maybe one day I’ll finish the planned larger canvas of the whole sydney harbour

Good to know - thesaurus dot com is infected

https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3l4lwvra6r22e

thank you!

it’s ok, it’s a small part of the bit and I’m solid in my position. Was hoping to get some kind of response though, ngl