Pavel

After six months of Claude Code, Microsoft has had enough

Microsoft reports expose AI's cost problem: The tech is more expensive than paying human employees | Fortune fortune.com

This, for example. In the service of showing how awesome and cutting edge they are, KPMG released a work of fiction masquerading as a report. All the case studies were made up. They have finally withdrawn it. But it's only a matter of time until they find another agentic rake …

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"Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, depend on mass invasions of privacy by design, and are fundamentally incompatible with international human rights law."

Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International amnesty.org

Not using AI? You must pay an AI company $$$ to certify you, and then accept their AI-generated recommendations for how to not sound like AI.

It's Not Just X. It's Y. mail.cyberneticforests.com

Lots of thinkpieces about how workers should think of "AI agents" as colleagues. Which, sure. I've had colleagues I always avoid because getting them to do anything useful is like pulling teeth, and who can be counted upon to fuck up even a rudimentary task if left unattended.

Every asshole is now talking about "the agentic web" as though "agents" are doing anything except driving model providers to crush people's websites with scrapers that are stealing any training data they can find.

"AI native" is the new term that reduces the semantic value of any sentence which contains it

In an era of AI generated slop, I'm delighted to see that the art of shitty photoshops for throwaway jokes is alive and well The future is bright for memes, for Spirit Airlines, and for America

"Anthropic is profitable" is the funniest joke I've heard in a long time

AI boosters exist in a superposition of insisting that there is nothing wrong with using AI to "write" + simultaneously claiming that their "writing" is not AI-generated. And that's how you know they don't actually believe that AI is better than humans.

"But it won't happen HERE/to ME" is the driving attitude behind LLM adoption. Sure it can hallucinate - but I am personally far too special for bad things to ever happen to me. So I will be safe trusting my credit card number to it.

AI is a cognitohazard (image via @jadedblueeyes@tech.lgbt)

Old article structure: inverted pyramid (the most important content first so readers can get everything they need from the first few paragraphs) New article structure: inverted quality (writers give less and less of a shit the further you go into the article and leave more of the AI text unedited)

I'm tired of articles with the texture of a slip-n-slide. Juiceless writing polished with language models until it has become a rich nutrient paste. My kingdom for an essay that does fun and novel things with words.