Upwork found that 88% of the highest AI productivity gainers also report burnout. They're twice as likely to quit as their less productive colleagues.
The human brain is not designed for endless complex thinking or context-switching. We should use AI to work less, not more.
Building agentic systems sometimes feels like dealing with tricky employees who can’t be bothered to work sometimes. I’ve literally had to build a disciplinarian supervisor just to kick them when needed.
So congrats #AI, you’ve just reinvented middle management.
Seems like it’s capable of smoking some good stuff too.
A Microsoft support guy put me on hold for ten minutes to find a link for me and then emailed me a link to Microsoft.com.
This is why AI is needed.
Looks great!
No, with CTRL+P
Speak for yourself, one is of royal lineage and refers to oneself in the third person habitually.
By royal lineage I mean I would be king of England if approximately 15 million other people died first.
Is the whole building in public thing basically a digital version of group therapy?
My fault for not listening to my internal alarm when the VC meeting I had was held in an office with no furniture. Turned out it was a board member of our biggest competitor undercover.
The tech startup scene is wild.
Exactly!
I love this vintage style of advertising.
They can copy your user interface (breaking an NDA in process) then copyright it, then sue you for infringing their copyright so you have to alter your own design.
Yes, this happened to me.
Meanwhile, last Christmas I witnessed my mum scolding my dad for some misdeed on his part in the past. He, looking utterly confused, asked when this misdeed was performed. She looked at him incredulously and responded, "It was in 1972, how can you not remember?!"
I guess the only solution is to build agentic systems to deal with such floods. So we end up with a world of AI lawyers suing other AI lawyers.
That could actually be quite interesting.
Holy shit! I’ve built so many JavaScript hacks to achieve this over the years.
I saw a demo of this and it seemed to boil down to a $500/month Slack bot.
I just don’t think this type of tech is reasonable currently. Coding assistants are the way.
That’s actually quite funny 😂
But yeah, good example to show this needs fixing.
Aren’t these things at least partly pulled from Wikipedia?
Having seen my agency wrestling with Google Consent Mode 2 for the past few months, I'm of the opinion that the time has come for a re-think about GA as the default analytics tool. It's just not worth the hassle any more.
Ah, the old Brexit strategy!
This type of tech from Google's Gemini 2.0 has actual benefits. For example: do a single photoshoot and then use AI to create all the variants you need.
None of the existing AI tools really deliver on that. Hopefully this one will, when released. 🤞
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I find casinos depressing precisely because they're full of people who couldn't gamble responsibly. And the lack of sunlight. And the fact the house is rigged against you.
The only worthwhile gambling game is poker, because there's some actual skill involved. Play it with mates at home though.
It was a side hustle and I was content with the slow progress at the time. Never actually expected it to take off but it did. Meanwhile, other things I really tried to make take off just didn't. So, lesson learned: try lots of things, consistently.
Bluesky feels a lot like Twitter used to be several years ago. Which means it has every opportunity to become like X, but the audience is too small right now so you can't really compare the two yet.
I would say that X is much angrier overall than Bluesky, which is exhausting for me, so I prefer 🦋
Until you realize they're checking if you qualify for the pensioner discount.
Meanwhile, LinkedIn is filling up with political/racist nonsense. Perhaps the two are just trading audiences with each other?
And do so consistently for much longer than you think.
Years ago I built a platform and started doing content marketing for it. Spent 3 years with very slow progress, until one day an article I'd written in the second week got randomly picked up, went viral and my platform took off. Sometimes it's just about expanding the opportunity surface area.
That's an insanely low price for a brand identity, are you using AI or similar to keep the costs down?
