

new rant from me about how boosters asking critics to admit that AI is āusefulā is not the win they think it is vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcBCji6XvE audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/94cb1cda/useful-is-nothing
I write things on my blog sometimes https://fasterandworse.com/
new rant from me about how boosters asking critics to admit that AI is āusefulā is not the win they think it is vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcBCji6XvE audio: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/94cb1cda/useful-is-nothing
hereās my beat for beat commentary on the WWDC25 event icyi. https://bsky.app/profile/fasterandworse.com/post/3lr6tm62rpc2h
David pulled it all together perfectly here. Itās amazing how well it fits the hook model, whether they intended it or not
New webbed brief from Heydon
very much agree with this
Great piece by Jacob Silverman about the growing shittyness of the day-to-day internet experience
Can we find a way back to an internet that puts people in lucid conversation with one another, where books are published after they are written, where anger and insanity arenāt the dominant modes of thought and the defining editorial values are more meaningful than a chumbox of clickbait nonsense? Iām not sure.
ICYI I posted a new vid/pod this week and an accompanying thread about: Everything Is Work Now ā Tech products have a work/life balance problem
Hereās my audio/video dispatch about framing tech through conservation of energy to kill the magical thinking of generative ai and the like podcast ep: https://pnc.st/s/faster-and-worse/968a91dd/kill-magic-thinking video ep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLHmtYWzHz8
aw thanks
ICYI hereās me getting a bit ranty about generative ai products https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MQb-uNf2U
how much is templated now? reckon itāll be 3hrs every time?
I get where youāre coming from but weāre talking about two completely separate layers of abstraction.
If you define data as a material, which you can, then software is going to be a very good means for working with data. Itāll be the best!
But for that to happen you have to have decided that data is the key to whatever purpose you are aiming to satisfy. Youāre saying that all purposes are a matter of data manipulation.
I donāt actually say that software cannot be a product, I say that it canāt be categorised as a product in itself. As in, it doesnāt make sense to have āfurniture products, exercise products, data products, surveillance products, and SOFTWARE productsā - that doesnāt mean something made out of software canāt be a product.
BTW Iām not claiming this is novel, in fact I know itās not. Iām also not taking it personal, feedback is why I post this shit.
I donāt know what part of my post you are responding to
I hate how much firefox has been growing to this point of being the best, by a smaller and smaller margin, of a fucking shit bunch
This is great, thanks for sharing
Itās probably more sensible for me to try writing short bits too, instead of faffing around with videos
really, thanks for listening! Itās fun making them and nice to know they are being listened to
holy shit, I really donāt know if this is real or a joke
thanks! It might be uncommon because itās a real pain in the ass to keep it short. Every time I make one I stress about how easily my point can be misunderstood because there are so few details. Good way to practice the art of moving on
ābusinesses and employeesā
the business pays for it, the employees āuseā it.
the business measures the value by how many employees they can remove.
if the business is measuring āproductivityā, how are they doing that? Is it jira tickets? Is it timesheets? are they measuring quality? Is it starting to seem like youāre trying to pick up water with your fingers?
if you pretend that ai ceos are actually doing marketing the trajectory is right there staring you in the face