Doesn't everyone have a work nemesis?
Chicagoan. I like food, music, history, sports and tech. Transit and cycling is the future. Studied History, work in tech, weird combo. The widespread proliferation of LLMs & GenAI is a crisis. Check the pinned post if you're curious.
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Doesn't everyone have a work nemesis?
And any pushback to replacing [tried and tested tool you know and love] is being considered "sabotage" as if this is a new phenomenon vs the expected reaction to the incredibly rushed implementation of untested and often unimpressive technology
This is framed as a GenAI issue but its a change management issue. Some % of your staff are always sabotaging change, tech or non tech related. With GenAI, people don't see the benefits and so when forced to use it, they aren't adopting. Thats poor change management
*supported but y'all could figure that out
Over 41% of sales managers I've supposed would admit to sabotaging the sales operations systems I set up so this doesn't even sound strange for a tech solution
You mean you don't know the difference between all the Palos!?!?!?
Well OPS is not great....
Chicago is a labor town! Spirited rally and protest--Mayor Brandon Johnson gave a strong speech. The unions turned out in force; Cappy & I joined our @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social friends. This city is not accustomed to being treated like a rug to walk over, and we don't intend to get used to it.
Now: Chicago's Labor Day march outside of Valor Equity Partners, whose CEO is a friend of Elon Musk and was a prominent figure in DOGE
They're so inconsistent because Trump and others will actually point out how many died in 2022 when they want to claim Joe Biden messed up Covid. Disingenuous at every turn
Trump is not welcome in Chicago
Not a great look. I'm a subscriber and I don't find the Substack concern a compelling enough reason to ditch a quality publication, we can all only deal with so many issues as individuals. But your defense is going far beyond that and your comparisons to Ghost make you appear misinformed on the tech
Yea I was a little nit picky there, just love bread. They still wouldn't be a soft loaf like this or anything and could be filled with all sorts of fillers(kind of like milk at the time)
OP Is still absolutely nuts though
Actually, the modern loaf is a little older than you're thinking. It was actually a pretty controversial issue in industrializing England. "White" flour lasts longer and thus poor workers were more likely to buy that bread, despite efforts to push them into buying whole grain bread.
Watch out, there's a pylon in your base
The camera just sort of zooms back so it *feels* faster
There is a somewhat recent Amazon show that is this and you won't believe it but things don't work so well
Yes!
I'm not sure if i even knew who David Bowie was but this Zoolander scene made a strong impression on me that he must be awesome
in a job search and I hate the amount of personal data that I have to share with companies, on cloud based 3rd party software, that they then retain and use however they'd like. Certainly don't want to have entire recorded conversation with your GenAI chatbot.
Got his with this chatbot today and it had me thinking how much Bots/Agents change business interactions. If I speak with someone at a company, I know they may take notes and potentially record the convo depending on locality. A bot documents everything and the company owns the data. Quite intrusive
Hate to break it to ya but Trump loves Rebel, Rebel, it was a campaign staple of his
Of course you didn't mean my favorites
Time for Lurker at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social and then director Alex Russell and a couple actors, Théodore Pellerin & Zach Fox, hosting a Q&A
This 💯
And shallots!(forget leeks, too much work if you're new to cooking)
"OH dinner smells great" "Its just garlic/onion" This exchange happens regularly on my home with my wife and I swapping roles interchangeably
You can explain yourself as much as you'd like, and you can even be legally correct. Won't matter to a mob. I understand GenAI isn't going away, I wouldn't even argue for that, but without a drastic change to its current adoption, people will respond when it hurts then e.g. CSAM
Pretty sure assholes love Entourage
You and Whose Army? is an absolute gem
Aqualung is a true classic, you cannot understand rock if you haven't heard it
13th Floor Elevators will have their day. Not sure when but it'll come
Live look at me trying to log into this threat detection software
One addition: while your university may use Slate to do marketing , you may be lucky enough to have additional marketing automation software. The university i worked at sure did(i was the admin, boo you Marketing Cloud)
We build a LLM powered platform to optimize compute flow, prioritized with a proprietary customer score, taking into future upsell opportunity and current satisfaction. All staff with be Agentic agents that report to me, doing all the work. I think I can raise a few million on that pitch alone.
There are many issues that may go down as the dumbest in T2 but the Greenland saga is brain melting stuff
#liberatethebean
Your honor, we have a reasonable doubt. That doubt? Well is a taco a sandwich? Because until we settle that, I can't say for certain that anyone threw a sandwhich
They've tried 3 times already with someone else
This timeline sucks
This is definitely a thing
What is more American than big, loungey chairs and couches? How much more can they take from us before we do something?
Hall and Oates
Oh you don't wanna hear what they're doing next year
Scariest game ever made
#sociolost4Mamdami
Watched this last night and was pleasantly surprised. Gremlins/Leprechaun meets Not Another Teen Movie/Mean Girls. At its best when it's most over the top, such as when the sloth drives a car
Clouds have been looking wild lately
Whenever I try to explain this to people who call themselves designers, I get a blank stare. But if you don't understand how your product mediates behavior, you should not be doing this job.
It's a funny phenomenon that usually goes the other way: capital will take on short term pain to prevent long term change. Usually that means preventing good stuff from happening but it's causing them to cover up the instability/chaos in hopes things just keep moving forward
I hate living in a constant state of this gif
Wait, did I stumble into a gay economics cluster?
Only problem: Benjamin Franklin finds all M&Ms sexy and doesn't understand the modern right
Cmon, 2026 predictions? Its Monday.
What is scale?
😔
My hope is there is more going on behind the scenes but yea, that'll be a really big challenge for me
Chicagoans will not be intimidated by a thug. I will do everything I can to protect my constituents.
its 2025, you can't say that anymore
kids these days. Picked up from school in 9th and 10th grade? I wasn't even getting dropped off
I went outside in Chicago this weekend. Saw some wrestling at a street fest and then listened to house music on the river, downtown. The caricature that conservatives make up in the their heads about cities is embarrassing.
Universities are absolutely promoting GenAI because the leading business school are evangelizing the tech for profit with very expensive non degree certificates. I ran the technical operations for one of these departments
Prefect day for Bill Callahan's Apocalypse
People will find this one day and understand it's greatness. Truly one of the best comedies of the 2000s
No other tech has been rolled out the way LLMs have. It's nearly impossible to remove from any new phone, its auto on for most applications right when added. Its fundamentally differently
Personally, I dont think ghe environment critique is the most convincing but figured I'd try to give some backing. I'd point to other reasons, such as these 3, as to why their widespread proliferation is a problem
That makes the energy usage different. I dont want to talk to an AI agent, make it easier to cancel my subscription. Unnecessary to build data centwrs to power *that*.
The difference is some extent of choice & autonomy. I won't pretend people organically decide to post tiktoks, but short form video is something people have chosen to seek out. LLM chatbots/agents have been shoved into most applications and many business processes. People did ask for that
That priest is all show, little skill. The baby needs to be fully submerged and crying
Beef = good, as it should be
I loathe programmatic ads and don't pass up an opportunity to say so
Another great read on LLMs, if you're also a sicko. At several moments, I found this piece to understate certain risks, but those concerns were repeatedly addressed as I progressed. Really enjoyed the flow and structure of this, along with agreeing with most of the content
It really was a cool moment and looked like they may have a new approach
Ha all good, I just needed to know if I slipped into an alternative reality where Lil Wayne showed up
Lil Wayne? Sure you dont mean Lil Jon?
Justice for Xenga
This just keeps getting crazier, this sounds like a wild detail from the autopsy: The gun was fired by someone "knowing the action could cause death".
One reason I connect so much with this piece is that OP and I seem to agree on this: LLMs are impressive technology but the gap between what they do, and what their creators claim they can do, is immense. The true issue is how society is adopting these tools, in both macro and micro ways. 9/
No notes here other than people should click on these links and read up some more if they found OP's piece interesting 8/
The finances underpinning GenAI are truly insane. There is an massive web of companies that are building their products and business processes around GenAI. So much of our economy is being oriented around these LLMs and data centers but these 7 tech companies cannot grow forever. It will crash. 7/
People often say "We gotta get on board or we'll be left behind" w/r/t GenAI. Are the these people aware of how poorly the most recent OpenAI model release went or how companies are increasing LLM pricing? Its such a blind parroting of marketing and hype with no personal understanding. 6/
The impacts on our workforce cannot be overstated, and while this is currently being heavily felt in technology roles, its bleeding into every field, if it isn't entrenched already. Here is a great companion piece on this specific issue 5/
Nearly every advanced technology goes through stages of adoption, often never reaching a mass market, because powerful tech shouldn't be given to those who do not understand how to safely use it. So many people who recommend using LLMs, including at work, have no idea how they work. That's weird! 4/
This part strongly resonates: If the GenAI boosters are right about what LLMs can do, our world will change far more than the median person understands. If nearly everything is LLM powered, most companies will be unnecessary and many fields will be obsolete. That isn't my prediction, its theirs 3/
Chatbot use often sounds right out of a Sci Fi story. I often think about this movie, The Time Machine. Its a bad movie but it adds an interesting plot point to the original: hyper focused on changing the past, despite evidence he cannot, the lead causes so much pain repeating the same mistake 2/
This was a very informative piece, does a great job of staying away from caricatures and really thinks about the implication of GenAI and LLM usage in our society. Its a topic I'm very invested in, so I put together a 🧵with some additional thoughts and some posts that go well with the piece. 1/
