I work for a software and DevOps consultancy firm, which means that I get an assignment to build software for one of my company's customers. (I'm on a US DOD cybersecurity contract).

I'm sitting in the monthly All-Hands meeting, and I had to turn off my camera, because I didn't want everyone to see how much I'm rolling my eyes right now.

Our Chief Digital Officer says that a recent MIT study shows that only 5% of new software projects built on AI actually make it to market. And that's why we have to go all in on AI to fill that market gap where others are failing.

He also started by saying that as we move towards AI-focused work, we're doing so to "distinguish ourselves". Yeah. We're going to "distinguish ourselves" by jumping into the bandwagon that everyone else is jumping into.

🙄

#AI #AISlop #hype #bandwagon

💡 Ed Zitron's new 16K-word "How to Argue With An AI Booster" is an essential communications toolkit for the next ~18 months. Go read it, and bookmark it.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #hype

https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/

💡 Ed Zitron's new 16K-word "How to Argue With An AI Booster" is an essential communications toolkit for the next ~18 months. Go read it, and bookmark it.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #hype

https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/

This is one of the best things I read this summer:

"In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen." Thank you for writing it so brilliantly @colincornaby 🙏

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

#AI #aibubble #hype

This is one of the best things I read this summer:

"In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen." Thank you for writing it so brilliantly @colincornaby 🙏

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

#AI #aibubble #hype

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again.

"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."

https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta#generativeAI #hype

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again.

"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."

https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta#generativeAI #hype

The #climateCrisis is inherent to the system that's created it. Expecting that the same system that owes its existence to exploitation of resources and people will now act against its own interests and… save the planet, is just very bad #fiction.

#hype

🧐 Wall Street is catching on.

“If you’re going to invest now and get returns in 10 to 15 years, that’s a venture investment, that’s not a public company investment,” Luria said. “For public companies, we expect to get return on investment in much shorter time frames. So that’s causing discomfort, because we’re not seeing the types of applications and revenue from applications that we would need to justify anywhere near these investments right now.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/tech/wall-street-asks-big-tech-will-ai-ever-make-money

#ai #hype #bubble

These bros can't go extinct soon enough

｢ Rosebud was founded in 2023 by Chrys Bader, a Y Combinator alum and co-founder of Secret; and Sean Dadashi, a UC Berkeley Cognitive Science graduate. The pair met at a men’s group, and came up with the idea for Rosebud based on their own experiences with therapy and coaching ｣

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/rosebud-lands-6m-to-scale-its-interactive-ai-journaling-app/

#ai #hype #bubble

🤡 Fire now, rehire later

https://www.inkl.com/news/klarna-s-ai-replaced-700-workers-it-s-trying-to-bring-them-back-after-losing-40bn-in-value/pwXyJMFrAQr

#ai #automation #hype