That’s true, but AI fellating is for the poor. Power brokers want to see live humans on their knees.

I do actually, it’s like an exclusive club, they need fresh blood. Plus, if there are no junior bankers, who would be constantly fellating the senior bankers?

Yes, this is the show I’ve been waiting for – big finance vs. big tech. It’s like the unstoppable force meeting the immovable object.

I think I’d catch some shit if I tried calling anyone a “sloperator”

This is what people know as “AI” right now (because it’s being shoved down their throats that way)

After a lengthy argument with my boss, I was allowed to “only” force the AI-first model onto half of my small dev team of 8 engineers and 4 QAs. After about a year, the results are obvious: the engineers who went AI-first are now AI-fluent: they know how to prompt the model, develop agents, AI-automate workflows, and push a TON of code. Like almost an order of magnitude more code into prod. However, to say their skills have stagnated would be generous. In some cases an engineer I could count on to debug a tricky issue is completely not able to anymore. Meanwhile, the non-AI team is now essentially my code quality and bugfix team. Their PRs are small and concise, their changes are understandable, and most importantly, their skills have remained the same (and in the case of the 2 juniors, have improved).

If we hadn’t kept a few people in reserve, we’d be fucked, because there have been multiple times where an AI-first engineer has tried debugging an issue (and with big models - Astra, Fable, Opus) that either totally failed and gave up, or made things worse by introducing “fixes” that made problems elsewhere.

So this is a small sample, and YMMV, but for junior engineers in particular (who usually have the least amount of say in pushing back against bad ideas) this is – not “is going to be” – a major problem.

I think people hate AI because:

• it’s trained on their stolen works
• they get no credit or payment when derivative works are made
• it let’s business owners threaten to dismiss more workers (who need to work to live, since there are no safety nets in place)
• when workers DO get displaced by AI, the AI does a shoddier job (enshittifying products and processes)
• further enables and accelerates the concentration of capital to the absolutely-most-wealthy-people

I could go on and on.

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So maybe it’s a cyclic problem. You have to act like a psychopath to become a billionaire. And becoming a billionaire makes you act like a psychopath.

From the article and underlying research though, it’s weirder than that. The ultra wealthy literally do not evaluate risk the same way. It’s like they’re unable to comprehend a scenario where they might be disadvantaged or endangered.

Sad thing is, that’s a pretty safe bet.

remember the good ol’ days where he’d just get angry and throw a chair (I know he had denied this happened, but he’s a hard guy to believe)

You can just say racist now. No need for modifiers anymore.

How can you tell here? I’m looking at it and I think I could do something very similar in Inkscape in a half hour or maybe an hour (I’m a little rusty). But it looks like normal vector art to me?

Governor twice and now he’s a Senator. A fucking Senator.

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Another fucking slap on the wrist. “The payment will be distributed in annual instalments over a 10-year period.” It’s literally a rounding error for them. I assume this is the same lawsuit as the teen addiction one, where the states had asked for $1.4T in damages - in which case this would amount to literally 1% of the request and add insult to injury.

But also more anxiety, shorter attention spans, and brain rot.

(According to my own anecdotal evidence)

Can they please “fuel a push” for indictments instead?

(I just picked June 4 1989 randomly, ofc.) 🤣