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It's one thing to dislike or even detest something, but to constantly claim it is worthless and without use when people are already benefitting from it everyday is nothing short of delusion.
Where does the title come from? What is this document? What is the context?
https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3mfkc63h6222l
> "Here is an annotated version of the Citrini Memo with my own intro. It is analyslop - scare-fiction written to ingratiate AI boosters and analysts/traders with tales of ultra-automation and socialist data center policies. Shameful that the markets reacted at all."
Rarely do I read something that starts off with such promise!
Despite the vulgarity, it is exceptionally illuminating to how much some of these slop pieces are just a mere pretension of rhetoric. I see this pretty consistently with a lot of the material I come across on the job that's gone through the LLM meat-grinder.
Also, the comment made me giggle like a little kid.
Offtopic - The success of coding agents must be Ed Zitron's nightmare. He has been a perpetual bear
Which success? I still see those things churning out laughably wrong code at every turn.
Offtopic - The success of coding agents must be Ed Zitron's nightmare. He has been a perpetual bear
His argument is not "this tech doesn't work", but rather "these businesses aren't economically viable"
And that the smoke and mirrors accounting and perpetual thirst for more billions indicates just how unviable it is
Whilst he does dunk on LLM capabilities, the framing is the business angle - can Anysphere etc. actually form a moat and make a profit?
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Which success? I still see those things churning out laughably wrong code at every turn.
I guess everyone stopped using Claude Code already then, if it doesn't work.
If it worked, there'd be no people using it.
Offtopic - The success of coding agents must be Ed Zitron's nightmare. He has been a perpetual bear
I don't think so. His argument is not "this tech doesn't work", but rather "these businesses aren't economically viable" And that the smoke and mirrors accounting and perpetual thirst for more billions indicates just how unviable it is Whilst he does dunk on LLM capabilities, the framing is the business angle - can Anysphere etc. actually form a moat and make a profit?
Why? because of cost?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think so. His argument is not "this tech doesn't work", but rather "these businesses aren't economically viable" And that the smoke and mirrors accounting and perpetual thirst for more billions indicates just how unviable it is Whilst he does dunk on LLM capabilities, the framing is the business angle - can Anysphere etc. actually form a moat and make a profit?
>His argument has never been "this tech doesn't work", but rather "these businesses aren't economically viable" Why? because of cost?
His style is acerbic and (imo) excessive sometimes. But he's also one of a minority of journos actually looking at the numbers and adding them up. Which seems to be a rarity