FredFig

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[–] FredFig@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The slightly grimy, cynical tone is very well done, really made me feel like a soulless suit.

I wonder how much M&As still hinge on demos working at this point, isn't it an open secret that every startup is run by hustlers?

actually, this is lampshaded directly here:

seemed slightly surprised that _______ would be acquiring a genuinely pretty valuable company.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually dislike the whole line of thinking of "Well, it might not be true, but it tells you something that you believed it."

But, the world in which AI succeeds is the world where every book published is a fake field guide to mushrooms, or a recipe book for shaving cream. And it's like... I dunno, after 4 years of happily proclaiming that this is the thing we're going to sell, why have these guys never considered that fraud is bad, actually. Is fully automated luxury gay space fraud really so enticing?

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is this list just a summary of a bunch of downvoted SCPs?

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"I even hate when you say the word 'nigga', but that's just me I guess. Some things just cringeworthy, it ain't got to be deep I guess."

  • Kendrick Lamar, euphoria, in response to Aubrey Graham.
[–] FredFig@awful.systems 9 points 1 year ago

It's really funny that this was probably the closest thing to a killer app powered by genAI to exist.

Wonder if they're getting rid of this stuff because they realized it's actually a liability to mine these ERP convos for data and they're burning money on every conversation as it is.

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I am going to forcefeed you the Mona Lisa. The chances of me being able to do so may be extremely slim, but do you really want to take that chance?

[–] FredFig@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very based:

With all the damning evidence, the story was ready. Most reporters would now email their subjects for comment, but Woo elevated the story to performance art. He asked Austen for a recorded interview, without revealing its nature. Austen, lulled into a false sense of security by tech press puff pieces, agreed. What followed was the most riveting hour of tech journalism I've ever heard.

The premiere venture capitalists of our time, drawing from near infinity riches during ZIRP, and the most innovative thing they have is student loan debt racket but faster.

Did YC seriously think because a growth hacker was in charge, you could value a private school like its an overinflated tech company? PG going mask off to endorse slavery (sorry, "trying out a worker") for a hack like Austen is so many levels of brainworm capitalism, how has Silicon Valley not sunk into the ocean.

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