Ed Zitron

Imagine what someone who kind of knew what they were doing could do.

Oh, I'm scared.

I think that they shouldn't be able to sleep at night.

I think it's an evil way to market things.

I'm just also going to be honest.

Yeah, the model AI companies are terrible.

I also think the media has categorically failed here and should feel fucking ashamed of themselves.

I think the media is as much to blame.

And that's it.

I've been saying this for years.

It's the rock-con bubble.

They're out of big ideas.

And AI was the panacea.

The API would be the way to build new startups.

It would be the way for enterprise companies to sell more software with new add-ons.

It would be the way for...

business software to take off consumer software it was meant to be the solution because they're doing exactly the same thing as the ai companies are doing saying yeah the ai will just fix this what are we going to build with this or the ai will work out what's the product ai will work it out it's honestly a kind of a pathetic culture

Yeah, but that's why.

I'm getting at that.

But the theoretical that I'm saying is that the idea of large language models as an API or a consumer product was what they were excited about because you can just extrapolate the various things.