I think Bin Laden will get a chapter in the book on the fall of America, but Reagan will be on the front cover.

Amazon is famous for being a terrible company to work for, on the logistics side.

Airbnb has caused all sorts of social problems.

Uber results in people working for peanuts and has circumvented labour laws.

I think there are some startups that have created large scale value without doing something malevolent, but not those ones.

Things like Linear. Good tool for software dev, no one harmed.

The difference between America and europe isn’t technical ability. It’s access to funding and ambition. Export controls would fix that. In fact, I think the trump administration is already driving a boom in London.

Makes me wonder if the whole thing is just slop.

Is the rest of the article correct?

Anyone suggest an alternative article?

To that mind, why hasn’t chrome itself become 1000x better?

There is a disconnect between the narrative and reality.

Newspapers are adopting it too, so soon we may see slop dominate even high brow publications.

Feels like a huge shift in human intellectual capabilities. Honestly quite worrying, I don’t think it’s a Luddite position to say that removing writing is removing thinking.

It’s controversial to say, and I may be downvoted, but I’ll share this as a pov: OSS is essentially giving away our work for free. Did that ever really make sense? If it does, why don’t graphic designers give their work away for free? Why don’t authors do that? UX designers?

It’s a very peculiar thing to us nerds.

And the strangest thing is, we may have unwittingly built the data source required to make our skills redundant, as models are trained on the work we gave away for free.

I think this is an interesting narrative.

And then one day the consequences finally hit and you’re left reading the news “oh, so it turned out I was right and it was just common sense. Huh.”

US economy is screwed. UK economy is screwed. Neoliberalism killed it.

The reason everyone in politics is so elated by AI is the hope that a huge boost in productivity shrinks the debt as a portion of GDP. Talk about a wing and a prayer.

Probably the mistake is to keep relying on rockets and propellants. Need to think more revolutionary. But hard for a startup to do that, usually needs gov backing.