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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 27

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 43m

not abuse, we knew we'd lose money, we just didn't think it would be this much

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 59m

as i understand it, it's just a song that mentions 67th street as 6-7, and then somebody made a joke video where they cut it together with a sports announcer talking about somebody who was 6'7"

people thought it was funny so it became A Thing

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 3

openAI was never a nonprofit in the sense of not trying to make money

but it's still a nonprofit in the sense of "not turning a profit"

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1h

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 3

openAI was never a nonprofit in the sense of not trying to make money

but it's still a nonprofit in the sense of "not turning a profit"

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

i'm so excited to tell you about what we're working on. it's the most important thing human beings have ever done or could ever do. it's going to transform our lives in a plausibly deniable period of years. i just need another 100 billion dollars and immunity from prosecution

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Aug 18

How are we not already calling him Scam Altman

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2h

scam altman

The Verge @theverge.com · 10h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 3h

we'll make it up in volume

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5h

Jesus christ. AI coding platform Augment code had to jack up prices because 22.5% of their users were spending 20x of what they paid, and even after raising the prices, they're still running at a loss.
reddit.com/r/AugmentCod...

A handful of users abused the system so all are getting punished.

This isn't about a few high-usage users. The reality is that approximately 22.5% of our users are consuming 20x what they're currently paying us. This isn't sustainable for us to continue delivering the quality service you expect. We have built some very powerful tools and we don’t want to impose artificial limits on what’s possible, but we do need to be able to charge in proportion to the use customers are getting from our platform. Developers are always going to push their tools to their limits, and we encourage that — and we need to be able to charge for it appropriately, too.

You only care about professional developers.

Our core focus is on building the best AI coding agent for professional software engineers and their teams. If people outside of that group are finding value with Augment, they are very welcome to use the product, but we’re not prioritizing features or solutions that non-developers might need, and frankly, there are plenty of vibe coding/low code/no code solutions available on the market that will better serve those customers.

You are just squeezing money out of us at 20x margin.

20x margin sounds great, but isn’t the reality for AI tools: the vast majority are running at a loss, including us, while we work to build sustainable, long-term businesses.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 6h

Yes but did the game literally write their suicide notes

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

people end up without the skills of human interaction, and without a place to practice them

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

extending 2, i would add that platforms have trained people to interact with platforms (rather than people), while also choking off and replacing a lot of the structures that supported different communities

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

D&D never wrote anybody's suicide note

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov seems like they're going through you

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 9h

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

thetriibe.com

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13h

i think the main reason we don't see that kind of thing now is that *companies don't want you to make it work differently*

they want you to use it in particular ways, and they want to prevent you from using it in basically any other way.

it's platform logic, which is to say it's about control

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13h

this was the quintessential MySpace to HTML pipeline: I have my page, i want to make it do more things, I can get under the hood and make some changes. maybe little ones at first, then more complex.

a lot of programmers have origin stories like that

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13h

A system designed to help people get better at making software would treat the user and the developer as a continuum instead of a binary.

If you just want to use it, great. If you want to understand more about how something works, it should unfold that context and let you change some things

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13h

it depends on a sharp divergence between knowing what you want to do as a user of the thing, and knowing how it is accomplished.

You don't know why it lets you do one thing, but not another. Is it a technical limitation? A memory issue? Or is it because that's the way that is most profitable?

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13h

a lot of the "ai" version of managing complexity is "you don't have to think about it!!!"

this version is frankly bad, and the reason it's so prevalent is that the companies making the platform get to control the hidden elements.

this btw is also the iOS / apple version of managing complexity

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Jun 2

imo abstracting away some details often *is* a way to make tools more accessible or useful!

BUT you can do that like "we've hidden this complexity entirely, now you don't have to think about it ever"

or you can do that like "we've made useful frames to see and manage this in predictable ways"

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Jun 2

"great news, you don't have to think about accessibility" is not the win you think it is

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13h

this is also something I think about a lot and imo it overlaps with the question of how we manage complexity and context

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 14h

What would a truly democratising platform look like, maybe it would bias for vanilla implementations etc

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14h

why

WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 14h

Hear more from Rod Blagojevich in unedited, extended Chicago Stories interviews: to.wttw.com/41Pu9be #ChicagoStoriesWTTW

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14h

Lol for me that's step 2. Step 1: acquire physical media

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14h

This is correct

Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social · 19h

probably my most deeply-held belief: it is not possible for a slide deck to be both (1) a good presentation aide; and (2) a standalone document that can be read and understood in isolation.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

"should we drop the bomb"
"Yes AND-"

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

even top generals are looking to improv comedy groups for answers

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 1d

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

even top generals are looking to improv comedy groups for answers

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 1d

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

www.businessinsider.com

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

did someone say fioretti

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Mar 8

bringing this one over since he's in the news. I laughed so hard my stomach hurt, it was beautiful

screenshot of twitter @mosermusic
I saw Bob Fioretti get booed on stage twice last night and I'm still laughing
8:24 AM · Jan 5, 2018

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 1d

imo the best unplanned/not a trilogy movie sequel is Back to the Future II. unfortunately by the same logic B2TF III is very bad

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Nov 22

The exception to the rule is Back to the Future II, which handled this problem brilliantly.

Instead of contriving the same *type* of situation and indirectly referencing the first movie, they just literally layered the events of the second movie on top of the first one

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · Nov 22

Unplanned movie sequels are, as a rule, mediocre.

It's because everything that felt spontaneous and interesting about the first movie is obligatory and expected in the second one.

Gotta hit all the same jokes, but a little harder. Find some reason to recreate an unlikely moment