@patrick_h_lauke i know we’re all a bit biased here, but I have legit not heard a single good argument about any downside to replacing these dumbass ceos with an LLM agent. If everyone else keeps their jobs and works competently, in what way would a difference be detectable in the end?

@n_dimension @gparenti @gpshewan @ramsey @SecurityWriter Plenty of insurers are using AI themselves--but they cover their asses by running AI copy/contract terms past their in-house lawyers.

@SecurityWriter this really sounds familiar

@SecurityWriter Tried to tell a good friend that the AI bubble was a Tech Wreck 2.0 but he was not having it. Sigh.

@gpshewan @SecurityWriter That’s what I mean. The CEOs are already beginning the shift to spin what’s coming, to make it more palatable to investors, because the bill is about to come due, and the promises haven’t been kept.

@gpshewan @ramsey @SecurityWriter Another is that at least the US government won't be likely to toss a bailout with the amount of gridlock in DC, so they're not easily going to get dump trucks of free money.

@SecurityWriter Told my boss I sincerely thought the AI bubble was on the verge of popping and he went home.

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Some poor intern will eventually get blamed.

What happens when something goes wrong?
Who's gonna get blamed?
Who's responsible to fix it?
What happens when someone gets injured or killed and the lawyers enter the room?

What happens when they can't get someone to fix it because no one will touch it with a 3.048 m pole?

@ReverendD @SecurityWriter probably had himself a little cry.

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One thing I learned, maybe it was this month? State government agencies, some of them, are forcing their employees to use AI stuff so the AI businesses can benefit from government contracts.

A nice lady used AI, and I used my phone to search. I found more stuff than she did.

@unlofl @SecurityWriter this is a good point that's getting me kind of excited about the future of the web. If hardware floods the market because corporations give up on making AI profitable, and internet users are all tired of the shit those corporations have been pulling with it... I bet we're approaching a turning point towards decentralization and community infrastructure

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Also, the genius who figures out what to do with all that CPU they are building out will be in a good negotiating position.

@Crovanian @patrick_h_lauke the only downsides I can think of are the ecological downsides of using LLMs, the social implications of letting a technology with oppression built in make all the executive decisions, and extra money going to the shareholders
Then again, considering CEOs tend to have private jets, be white supremacists, and be one of the shareholders... I'm not sure anything would actually change

@SecurityWriter as a Project Manager that means my profession will get a boost because someone has to organize the recovery.

@matthewcroughan @SecurityWriter whew, "Home Buyers" in a privacy policy

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... you hope.

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It’s a new gold rush…

@ramsey @gpshewan I hope you‘re right. I am seeing a lot of frustration with the lack of delivery but at the same time in our org management is doubling down after Claude has been better at delivering and it is hailed as the turning point when it finally is starting to be as good as we need it.
And in some ways it’s true, I still need to do handholding and lay out the design but the coding part is much more reliable. The productivity increase is maybe not 10x though, more like 2-3x.