Kristen Seversky

Now that we're "here" and Anthropic is getting some questionable glory (I get it, I get it - we celebrate minimal backbone in this industry) mixed with a bump in monopoly energy:

How are we prepping for the price lock-in ahead of the rip of the subsidizing rug?

That's gonna be fun. 🍿

Yup.

The journey of catching the blatantly-AI slop, to the moments when I didn't clock that it's AI, to the now settling that everyone uses it so YEAH things will have traces of it etc

Hard to set these lines but I'm over here trying haha

Caaareful -- all of these companies are merely a few degrees apart in their profits and partnerships. Palantir is a hefty partner in these AI endeavors so I couldn't claim any moral high ground, if using any of them.

That said, I do like that Anthropic pushes at all. My bar is in hell, though.

Oh man preach.

Watching tech pals say "well I'm not the corrupt CEO" while building the tools that profit the corrupt CEO is a level of compartmentalizing that is way way way too far.

Watching people finally rethink OpenAI this weekend was a slight morale boost that MAYBE, just maybe, our petty, fickle, short-sighted nature will keep us from going over this "inevitable" cliff.

Takes a lot to get to these points (yowza) but so many 180'd hardddd.

Just maybe.

I think that's the part i have to get myself to get over: people have been copying and pasting code from the internet forever lol a lot of these llms are just making that slop exchange FASTER haha

it's back to what we accept as "good" and that bar has been kicked down to hell

This is my inherent struggle, after sidestepping all the culty drivers around it, because I barely trust the status quo of search and now we've got all this generated noise on top.

I envy my eng pals that cruise with these tools, smiling ear to ear. But I'm over here having an ethical dilemma haha

Lolol Sam Altman himself pointed to AI washing for layoffs and people are still in the "but did employees feel the 40% workload reduction with AI?" discussion 😆🫠

So many of these people keep up with the speed of new releases but refuse to clock the motives behind them all 🤷🏻‍♀️

YouTube video by Saint Agnes Saint Agnes - Good Boy (Official Visualiser)

If I can't have Rage Against the Machine in this cursed timeline, I'll take the backup plan of new Saint Agnes in their place.

"But everythings fine! Everythings fine! Get back in the line!"

youtu.be/alv7eMqL3pQ?...

Yeah I mean, pretty much everyone in my tech sphere uses AI or LLMs to adjust their own language. It's hard for me to knock or bother with that so long as I'm getting someone's story but I get if that knocks people out.

I don't think we have a choice but to tolerate it.

I Started Programming When I Was 7. I'm 50 Now, and the Thing I Loved Has Changed | James Randall I still love developing but the shifts that AI have brought are tectonic and are forcing me to re-evaluate my own relationship to building things

"The abstraction ship sailed decades ago. We just didn’t notice because each layer arrived gradually enough that we could pretend we still understood the whole stack. AI is just the layer that made the pretence impossible to maintain."

Stewing on this one.

www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_th...

This Breeze / Mist game is fun.

Watching Brink block Stewie is wild but might not be enough. 👀

Lolol I know I know 😆 I'm picking poisons over here

So damn upsetting 😔

I need to touch grass.

Yes, in the tech sense but also in the "omg enough snow" point of the non-stop winter.

My left hand with my kiddo's red, glass heart in it that he randomly handed over to me

"Here, Mommy, you can have my heart."

🥹

The world is :: vague gesturing :: but whew do these little, random moments come through. ♥️

Viola Davis so happy about Michael B. Jordan winning a SAG award that she transcends time space and white supremacy.

When it finally happens:

I just don't get how it can't go the same path as chatbots lol we just ignore every damn pop-up or "lemme help!" request anyways. The conditioning is already stacked *against* these things but sure, sure, inevitable.

::chuckles::

status.claude.com

Too many believe that bots will do the mundane work, really well, while we sit back and chill.

NEVER been the case so I'm not thinking this time will be.

This this this.

The "it's inevitable" talk gets me just as fired up as this wild hype cycle and too many people trip into it. Yes, the powers-that-be are intensely shoving but it doesn't change that *it comes down to whether anyone uses this stuff at scale*

And I'll give that I spent time in my career in highly-regulated verticals so lliiiiike this is all too normalized for me and why moving fast and breaking shit never appealed.

We know humans are the ones to break.

It's the usual reaction to ANY effort to put some "hey, did you think about..." Qs in the front. Plus, people are applying GDPR energy to it all on top.

I'm at least happy (shocked?) to see people on LI saying how thinking ahead makes it all easy hahaha

GO.
FIGURE.

Watching the AI Act get framed as a showstopper on LinkedIn is another clear indicator that people don't give a damn about any accountability in this "EVERYONE GO BUILD SHIT, FAST" dash.

ESPNAssignmentDesk @ESPNAssignDesk · 2h Hello, Dane! Please see your DMs for a message from us! Dane Moore @DaneMooreNBA You do not have permission to use it — as I’ve told you numerous times in DMs. Shouldn’t have laid off all those reporters if you wanted locker room content.

This is the correct energy against our media overlords

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Absolutely! It's a civic duty of mine to break cycles around us and I sure as hell won't do it with strangers if I can't do it at home.

These two are my lil pavers hah

As much as I want to eyeroll the mass cancellations and suddenly-horrified reactions to the status quo in tech, I have to remind myself that we all have our own journeys, biases, and bubbles to pop.

For those arriving today, there's plenty of room on board. Keep your mind open to more patterns.

Yup agreed. I refuse to go the nihilist path since giving up on humanity and future generations = guaranteed end game shit.

Also being pregnant and having a young child is the kick in the pants to get off my bullshit and leverage privileges while they last.

We all can still play many parts.

Oh absolutely. There's no denying the righteousness mixed with echo chambers in an increasingly siloed society, bubbling up by design to make our own mini universes.

It's another reason I'm more discouraged over time: these are all compounding issues that remove common threads. Brutal.