The OpenAI Bubble
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The OpenAI Bubble
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Re: The OpenAI Bubble
#2I've got a yearly subscription to Ed and from time to time I still like to read it; but this constant ALL IS BAD! SCAM! SCAM! I AM VERY SMART! OHHHH I TOLD YOU SOOO!!!!! is so annoying to read, and he's mostly verbatim re-hashing his previous posts in every next article.
I completely believe him on it being a bubble, that this is not-a-Uber-situation, and that it's worse than whatever-you-might-call-it — but get a grip, dude. Yes, bubble. People and their investments are going to get hurt. But there is also some really nice things we'll get out of this (that, of course, might not make up for the damage that it'll do) It's also pretty clear his ever-longer articles are just him testing out his upcoming book. But the tone is starting to overshadow the substance, which is a shame, because the underlying argument is solid enough to stand on its own without the theatrics.
Re: The OpenAI Bubble
#3It’s interesting to see how independent analyses reach more or less the same conclusion.
Re: The OpenAI Bubble
#4I've got a yearly subscription to Ed and from time to time I still like to read it; but this constant ALL IS BAD! SCAM! SCAM! I AM VERY SMART! OHHHH I TOLD YOU SOOO!!!!! is so annoying to read, and he's mostly verbatim re-hashing his previous posts in every next article. I completely believe him on it being a bubble, that this is not-a-Uber-situation, and that it's worse than whatever-you-might-call-it — but get a gr…
"not enough people are emotionally prepared for if it's not a bubble"
Re: The OpenAI Bubble
#5I've got a yearly subscription to Ed and from time to time I still like to read it; but this constant ALL IS BAD! SCAM! SCAM! I AM VERY SMART! OHHHH I TOLD YOU SOOO!!!!! is so annoying to read, and he's mostly verbatim re-hashing his previous posts in every next article. I completely believe him on it being a bubble, that this is not-a-Uber-situation, and that it's worse than whatever-you-might-call-it — but get a gr…
yeah if you look at past bubbles, such as railroads, they were all genuinely useful developments. They were simply overvalued, largely because the timeline is longer than people are betting on or suggesting.
This Zitron guy keeps saying AI isn't actually useful, doesn't he? That's patently false.
Re: The OpenAI Bubble
#6I've got a yearly subscription to Ed and from time to time I still like to read it; but this constant ALL IS BAD! SCAM! SCAM! I AM VERY SMART! OHHHH I TOLD YOU SOOO!!!!! is so annoying to read, and he's mostly verbatim re-hashing his previous posts in every next article. I completely believe him on it being a bubble, that this is not-a-Uber-situation, and that it's worse than whatever-you-might-call-it — but get a gr…
yeah if you look at past bubbles, such as railroads, they were all genuinely useful developments. They were simply overvalued, largely because the timeline is longer than people are betting on or suggesting. This Zitron guy keeps saying AI isn't actually useful, doesn't he? That's patently false.
AI has a corrosive effect on everything it touches. I go to work and notice that everyone else is on a path to mentally checking out. Nobody values anyone's time anymore, nobody seems to weigh the cost of maintenance or conceptual work given creation is seemingly free. People get used to taking shortcuts, both for their work and also in their thinking.
I feel like the only sane person left in my team, like everyone else has stopped giving a shit, pretending to get work done at insane velocity on borrowed time.
It's no longer "can AI be useful" to me, it's "how do we avoid people frying their fucking brains".
Re: The OpenAI Bubble
#7I've got a yearly subscription to Ed and from time to time I still like to read it; but this constant ALL IS BAD! SCAM! SCAM! I AM VERY SMART! OHHHH I TOLD YOU SOOO!!!!! is so annoying to read, and he's mostly verbatim re-hashing his previous posts in every next article. I completely believe him on it being a bubble, that this is not-a-Uber-situation, and that it's worse than whatever-you-might-call-it — but get a gr…
I really hate that Ed is character assassinated here. His objective arguments are much worse than his personality.
Re: The OpenAI Bubble
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah if you look at past bubbles, such as railroads, they were all genuinely useful developments. They were simply overvalued, largely because the timeline is longer than people are betting on or suggesting. This Zitron guy keeps saying AI isn't actually useful, doesn't he? That's patently false.
AI has a corrosive effect on everything it touches. I go to work and notice that everyone else is on a path to mentally checking out. Nobody values anyone's time anymore, nobody seems to weigh the cost of maintenance or conceptual work given creation is seemingly free. People get used to taking shortcuts, both for their work and also in their thinking. I feel like the only sane person left in my team, like everyone e…
That’s not a problem with the tool, it’s a problem with the team / the people.
Re: The OpenAI Bubble
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah if you look at past bubbles, such as railroads, they were all genuinely useful developments. They were simply overvalued, largely because the timeline is longer than people are betting on or suggesting. This Zitron guy keeps saying AI isn't actually useful, doesn't he? That's patently false.
AI has a corrosive effect on everything it touches. I go to work and notice that everyone else is on a path to mentally checking out. Nobody values anyone's time anymore, nobody seems to weigh the cost of maintenance or conceptual work given creation is seemingly free. People get used to taking shortcuts, both for their work and also in their thinking. I feel like the only sane person left in my team, like everyone e…
I start to think most people in Software don’t care at all.
Before LLMs they were forced to at least pretend and they had been guarded by more and more style guiding, architecture, frameworks and agile ceremony.
I care alot about software and code. I write without AI, code and prose. Yet I would say it is useful for context sensitive search and autocomplete on steroids. I wonder why it should be more? It’s the intellisense I always wanted - just not worth a trillion I'd say.
And another point: if your coworkers do their job exclusively by vibing, then where’s the point of producing software? Your competitors can recreate it easily. There’s no value in AI generated artifacts and so there’s no value in operating the AI.
Just write the damn code
Re: The OpenAI Bubble
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah if you look at past bubbles, such as railroads, they were all genuinely useful developments. They were simply overvalued, largely because the timeline is longer than people are betting on or suggesting. This Zitron guy keeps saying AI isn't actually useful, doesn't he? That's patently false.
AI has a corrosive effect on everything it touches. I go to work and notice that everyone else is on a path to mentally checking out. Nobody values anyone's time anymore, nobody seems to weigh the cost of maintenance or conceptual work given creation is seemingly free. People get used to taking shortcuts, both for their work and also in their thinking. I feel like the only sane person left in my team, like everyone e…
It is just such an absurd statement to believe Claude is "frying my brain".
It is hard to describe how utterly stupid that comment is from my perspective.
I was just walking earlier today listening to an AI converted audio book of Knowledge and the Flow of Information by Fred Dretske.
It is exactly the kind of thing that I would have never found just a few years ago.
Or it must be you just such a genius that already knows everything unlike us mere mortals that get incredible value from the models.
In reality you are just the standard IT dipshit that vastly overestimates their own intelligence.