#enshitification... they'd be better off concentrating on the burdening interface issues, especially with recommendations being infinitely useless and libraries being a total mess!

it's not just that you HAVE to tip.. it's that you are obliged to make it 20%...

Forsee a lot of told you so moments!

AI will likely fall short of its loftiest claims.

*Frank Herberts, Dune

When civilisation revolts, not only against oppressive machines or inflated tech companies, but at the illusion that technological entities could really ever fulfil a profound promise of replacing human reason and autonomy, we should remind ourselves that amid this rapid innovation, technology...

AI is indeed a mass delusion event!
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

“What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?”

I wish the tech-loons would adopt this as their superhero premise. Not that I’m against AI or its adoption, but as the Atlantic article points out:

whybyproduct.substack.com/p/beyond-com...

whybyproduct.substack.com/p/scaling-is...

whybyproduct.substack.com/p/what-produ...

A Metric to Unmask Wishful Thinking in Product Profitability

The reckoning when revenue without margin catches up with the P&L.

whybyproduct.substack.com/p/product-pr...

join the club!

I raise you "Jackpot" ;)