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mattgreenrocks | 1 month ago

Sam Altman’s real job is pushing AI hopium on execs who will believe anything in pursuit of that nirvana.

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TheOtherHobbes|1 month ago

Which is hilarious, because AI is making it easier and easier to bring a good idea to market with much less external financing than usual.

You can argue about security, reliability, and edge cases, but it's not as if human devs have a perfect record there.

Or even a particularly good one.

What are those execs bringing to the table, beyond entitlement and self-belief?

mattgreenrocks|1 month ago

> What are those execs bringing to the table, beyond entitlement and self-belief?

The status quo, which always require an order of magnitude more effort to overcome. There's also a substantial portion of the population that needs well-defined power hierarchies to feel psychologically secure.