2026-02-21 22:23 UTC
@mcc@mastodon.social @itamarst@hachyderm.io this is a bit tangential to the whole thing but that phrasing bothers me a LOT. "an essential part" — is it? is it "essential?" where was it five years ago? and three years from now, when everyone, even the most braindead useless dead-weight MBA executive, finally realizes that it doesn't fucking work at all, will it still be "essential" then? or is the plan to stop being successful?
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 22:25
@mcc@mastodon.social @itamarst@hachyderm.io obviously this bothers me because it's a common trope at this point
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@mcc@mastodon.social 2026-02-21 22:26
@glyph@mastodon.social @itamarst@hachyderm.io i'm assuming they'll go directly to "ah, we're already using it, so we can't back it out now" even in orgs where the primary driver of it being used was executive mandates that each employee use a certain number of AI tokens per month
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@wronglang@bayes.club 2026-02-22 17:46
@glyph@mastodon.social @mcc@mastodon.social @itamarst@hachyderm.io yeah it's a common marketing switcheroo to make critics look like luddites, you just assume you're correct and fund a strategy till people forget how to do things any other way.