"ah look another count hasimir fenring"

(please ignore the marketing copy on the store pages, which I didn't write and am getting fixed ASAP thanks to typos) (please do not preorder from Amazon or chapter 9 is going to make you feel very very bad)

for hundreds of years shipbuilding has been a battleground between "this new technology will change everything" and "please for the love of God just plan better" and somehow the first team usually wins, with dubious results

LLMs make it much more difficult than in the past to distinguish sincere hard effort from automated boilerplate, so that it is harder to tell a sincere boss committed to helping you work better from one who is lazy and couldn't care less about you. There are similar dynamics for other situations.

don't love that we're using some of our limited shipbuilding capacity here for the Saudis either

(today, i mean)

reads like a catastrophic LLM breakdown

this is also not Taylorism! it very specifically isn't Taylorism! Taylor did not advocate extending the length of the workday, nor did he have much at all to say on its timing either! capitalism is the reason you have to get up at 7 because you don't have a better option!