👋 Programmer, product builder, and book author. I’m currently a lead product engineer at Plane, a Y Combinator startup making payroll tools.
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the fact that somebody thought this is good pr speaks to some fundamentally broken understanding of the human experience
this actually makes me believe tech workers have been successfully automated because llms started with promises of fixing the world and ended up building some “interesting little apps”
if anyone needs a light pulse check on how people outside of tech perceive ai, have a brief look at how the normies reacted to dlss 5 rerendering actual graphics in their video games and making them look like 100% ai slop
ok let’s get this over with and head straight into a new financial crisis (or a boom idk) all this edging is killing me
i miss 2010-2019
i wonder if there exists a future where ai keeps getting better but also steadily more expensive since *more* intelligence is pretty much always wanted, and that’s the scenario in which human labor is preserved
people used to excuse unhinged behavior in tech by saying “at least they’re doing more good for society than harm.” i believe we’ve reached a point where the reverse is true. have been there for some time, too. feels so disappointing to say this.
to anyone who doesn’t have a semi new alt account with a tl that hasn’t been fine tuned for a decade+: this platform is 10x crazier than whatever you imagine
nothing radicalized me towards thinking social media are a failed experiment more than singing up for twitter in 2025