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What a strange thing to post on a corporate CEO blog - proof that AI is making it too easy create things without asking why. How does it serve Fivetran to post
by sp1nningaway 7mo ago
What a strange thing to post on a corporate CEO blog - proof that AI is making it too easy create things without asking why. How does it serve Fivetran to post open letter about why Slack sucks? This only happens if it's easy to write a couple bullet points and have Claude fill in the rest... If an LLM wasn't used they would have realized it wasn't worth a post during the process of writing it.
- toraway 7mo agoIt's a retread of another (also baffling) "Why OpenAI Should Build Slack" post from a popular AI Substack. Just more empty grist for the AI adjacent content mill. "Slack sucks" doesn't let you draft off the current hype zeitgest, so we get "content" like this. https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-slack https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-sl...
- nitwit005 7mo agoA large portion of the AI related response pieces fail to reference what they're responding to. I have to assume it's a side effect of how they're using AI to write them.
- Jaysobel 7mo agoNot to mention the CEO in question maintains some of the worst customer relations in the data vertical. Fivetran is infamously bad to its users
- khaosdoctor 7mo agoI didn't even know this company before this article
- andrenotgiant 7mo agosounds like it was good marketing
- georgewfraser 7mo agoI assure you I wrote it myself