<![CDATA[Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed?]]>Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? Here ya go: https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking

I now only rarely work behind the doors of companies doing major tech deployments so won’t comment on how accurate-vs-overblown this piece is, but the writing is lucid.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/24e2e6f0-731e-4595-a743-f3c5f8b2d56a/wanna-read-a-maximally-anti-genai-screedRSS for NodeSat, 08 Aug 2026 19:43:49 GMTSat, 18 Jul 2026 19:13:33 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:22:14 GMT]]>@timbray I don’t move in the same types of organizations that he does, but I can definitely speak to encountering managers who are captured by the religious fervor he describes.

Discussion towards mutual understanding is impossible in these cases - it feels exactly the same as arguments between atheists and evangelicals

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/users/erik/statuses/116945435671068958https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.infrageeks.social/users/erik/statuses/116945435671068958Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:22:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? on Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:41:11 GMT]]>@timbray this was good. I felt heard.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/bit101/statuses/116943386820143022https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mstdn.social/users/bit101/statuses/116943386820143022Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:41:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? on Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:07:16 GMT]]>@james_exe @timbray
Author's about me is at https://ludic.mataroa.blog/about-me/ if you hadn't found it already

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tiny.tilde.website/users/lykso/statuses/116943253469185887https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://tiny.tilde.website/users/lykso/statuses/116943253469185887Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:07:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? on Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:47:28 GMT]]>@timbray I was having a hard time figuring out the author’s credibility. Do you have any insight here?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ruby.social/users/james_exe/statuses/116943175554987160https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://ruby.social/users/james_exe/statuses/116943175554987160Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:47:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? on Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:47:33 GMT]]>@timbray Oh, and I forgot to thank your for pointing to the article, I enjoyed reading it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/virtuous_sloth/statuses/116942939962704023https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/virtuous_sloth/statuses/116942939962704023Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:47:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? on Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:44:34 GMT]]>@timbray I have a friend who is all in on AI, and keeps bugging me about it. I think I finally got through to him re: my current project's "challenges", which are organizational in nature, not technical. Internet goes down. Backend is months behind. Firewall issues. Vendor unavailability. And on and on. No amount of AI will help!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud/statuses/116942928264013470https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud/statuses/116942928264013470Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:44:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? on Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:39:20 GMT]]>@timbray I really like Cory Doctorow's centaur/reverse-centaur take (the real Luddite take) because it allows for individual skilled workers to find an AI tool useful while identifying and acknowledging the bad things happening.

So I consider myself neither anti-AI nor an AI booster.

I wouldn't characterize this article as anti-AI.

At least not in the fediverse AI scold way, if you get my drift.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/virtuous_sloth/statuses/116942907674293196https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/virtuous_sloth/statuses/116942907674293196Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:39:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? on Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:39:51 GMT]]>@timbray A surprising (or maybe not?) amount of tech support these days is cleanup after an LLM does something that does not/cannot work. Unfortunately, "works sort of, some of the time" seems to be the actual *point*.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dirkm/statuses/116942673763260814https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/dirkm/statuses/116942673763260814Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:39:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Wanna read a maximally-anti-#GenAI screed? on Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:20:45 GMT]]>@timbray It's not just lucid, it's by @ludicity [can't tell if intentional wordplay on your part]

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/Two9A/statuses/116942598674348345https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/Two9A/statuses/116942598674348345Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:20:45 GMT