How’s that working out for you, dipshit?
The media needs to stop reporting on CEO proclamations, which long ago became glorified PR+marketing, not truth or fact. These are the individuals most incentivized to lie; and when they do nobody holds them to account.
No, they do need to report on it but they should be asking critical questions rather than copy-pasting the PR spin verbatim. They should demand these CEOs quantify their predictions. They won’t though, because they can’t.
W/r/t AI I’m not sure there’s a lot of room. There’s only so far one can go with “why would a business rely on information that might be faulty?”
I recall them talking about how CEOs have a fiduciary duty to increase the stock price. Shouldn’t that apply to them being required to tell the fucking truth?
A fiduciary duty to increase stock price seems like a duty to lie.
Yes, but marketing isn’t ever the truth; it’s Truth Massaged, an exercise in Public Relations designed to subvert truth by messaging what they consider to be the best “version” of the truth.
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Like Napoleon said (paraphrased) to his tailor "Take your time, I’m in a hurry "
CEOs are the only “class” of experts people are willing to listen to nowadays it seems. Unlike those other experts that might be able to back up claims with receipts.
Sure… they wrote the first 90%, and then I have to dig into their mediocre code and write the second 90%.
Well, it is writing a lot of code. Some of it actually gets used, and some of that even works!
Back in the day, those “rich people saying bullshit” articles were only in TV magazine. I used to read it while taking a dump. Now this shit is everywhere and I have a constipation.
Tell me you’ve never written a program beyond “Hello World” without telling me.
That’s rich coming from the CEO of the company who brought us the psychotic vending machine manager. Guess he’s overpromising to cash out the last pennies before the bubble bursts.
Yes, and the media is printing and retelling that shit, without questioning it…
Nah, it’s pissing away 90% of your investment with no return.
Unlikely
Claude is now writing probably 20% at least of code in many orgs.
I don’t think he was meaningfully wrong.
The gap between his prediction of 90% and your guess of 20% is meaningful.
