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The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb

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Re: The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb

#31
I wish this was human written and not AI slop.

While the core arguments stand, there's little actual nutrients in the article.

I spend hours per day with codex and claude. Almost every LLM is using each other's training data. There's a ton of AI slop out there already now feeding into training data. They all sound the same.

You are right! My honest take, The customer who did X wasnt Y, it was Z.

In early 2025, this was novelty, now it's annoying.

Re: The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb

#32
Yeah, i got duped. Sorry y'all. I talk about it here more now this morning: https://ninjasandrobots.com/paul-graham-flagged-for-ai-use

Will definitely now AI check for slop better before even posting. But was curious how automated and cheap I could make it. Isn't turning out that well yet. Also I put up a PR to remove silconopera from Kagi Small Web. Because it breaks multiple of their guidelines: multi-author, all fake authors, and all LLM content at non-human scale.

Re: The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb

#33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking at the markets, either we all get turned into paperclips soon, or what goes up finally does the inevitable.

Even if the bubble pops, the spambots will be here for the rest of our lives. Indeed the inference will only get cheaper as hardware prices plummet and get repurposed by third parties running DeepSeek etc. Just like the dotcom burst didn't wipe out the internet, only the people who lost touch with reality.

Good point, open models and cheap hardware will allow the spam to continue flowing. I don’t know if we’ll see as many polished AI “services”, though. I do wonder if press releases and traditional marketing copy may go back to the old ways, at least for a while.
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