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Ivan Monteiro
@ivanmonteiro.bsky.social
I help build long-term value Products.
Ex: Meltwater ▪︎ posts on society, culture, politics, product management + sky photos & the occasional memery ▪︎ views my own except where noted
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-cm
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It's the same strategy Trump has deployed in politics: flooding the field (9:1 fake to real issues/content) creates the perfect air cover for manipulation. It's not about discourse, it's about control.
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This so perfectly captures why I think it's so important for PMs (but everyone, really) to be the ethical custodians of their businesses. Make no evil only happens if the people doing the making refrain from it, and pushback when demand comes for eg enshittifying the product/service for profit sake.
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
How can one _not_ think about this song?
TOOL - Lateralus (Audio)
YouTube video by TOOLVEVO
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Isn't that... vibe coding?
a squirrel is standing on its hind legs in front of a painting
Alt: a squirrel is standing on its hind legs in front of a painting
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
In June, Musk said: "We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."
Beware of Gifts: When AI Offers Creativity, But Demands Control
How generative AI is flooding the internet with synthetic certainty — and what we can still do about it.
medium.productcoalition.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
In June, Melon Husk said they'd use AI to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" chaging what thry felt necessary, and then retrain on that.

Gets way easier to scam everyone when younger generations don't understand how things work or what is/isn't possible.
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social maybe there is hope for future generations?
November 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
At .025 stitch, that's not a bad price for a pound of iberico.
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Same vibe, opposite energy from linkedin's "you're a top match to this position (VP of Engineering)"

(I'm not, and have never really been a programmer)
October 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Not to mention this is likely adding fuel to the fire
Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?
fortune.com
October 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
AKA convenience-ification of poor reading & writing skills as applied to computers
October 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM