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The primary audience here isn't average people, or even engineers at the company. The primary audience is investors - the idea is to trick idiots into dumping t
by Nextgrid 2y ago
The primary audience here isn't average people, or even engineers at the company. The primary audience is investors - the idea is to trick idiots into dumping their money into this overvalued company rather than the infinite other ones that also claim to solve groundbreaking problems with AI.
In the past, it was hiring (or at least the appearance of hiring). But that's an expensive signal and not sustainable for long in a post-ZIRP period. On the other hand, bullshitting about AI (and before that, blockchain) is much cheaper in comparison, and seems to do just as good without actually needing to hire anyone or even pretend to.
Whether AI is actually used, or helps the bottom-line, is irrelevant (it's not possible to conclusively say whether a piece of code was authored by AI or not, so the subsequent narrative will be tweaked as necessary to fit the market conditions at the time).
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoYup I realized tobi is a massive dum dum when he had Tobi.eth in his Twitter profile. Even Gary tan had it and as an aside that is why I'm scared of YC's future. All of those folks were on an easy blacklist for me on twitter. Lacks original thought and is sheep like in their thinking.
- tmpz22 2y agoMeanwhile all of your technical employees discover you are an absolute clown of an executive and the entire middle management corps is feckless in the face of the slightest amount of pressure.
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- brianbest101 2y agoThis is a great explanation
- wooque 2y ago100% agree. Their actual AI is trash, it just there to pad their resume for investors. I tried few days ago their AI assistant in help center and admin and it hallucinated answer to my question (pointed me to non-existing setting), when I told it it doesn't exist it just returned a bit reworded answer (still pointing me to non-existing settings section).
- kermatt 2y agoIt sometimes seems like business school is becoming a one-liner: "Just say or do whatever keeps the investors happy". I have to wonder when some startup will attract talent with a tag line like "We use AI like we use text editors: Only where it makes sense."