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Once upon a time, there was this magical thing called "the cloud." The cloud was a place where data centers were a thing of the past, all the system and network admins were unemployed, and you could just deploy anything, with the click of a single button.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago.

We're in a meeting when one of the mid-level execs makes a comment about doing a project a certain way "in case we want to move off Azure." He was serious too.

I nearly snorted my coffee out my nose because we are never going to move off Azure. They have us by the balls but it would cost more, millions more, to migrate to a different cloud provider.

But then from a cloud (and "AI") providers perspective, thats the goal. They want you dependent on them to the point where you literally can't afford to leave.

This person gives elon musk $8 a month

Stuff like this is what made me understand that the MBA class is full of incompetent people who focus too much on networking and too little on learning how things work.

The hipocrisy of this post. To everyone upvoting this - you're being fed AI-written anti-AI slop and you're loving it.

oh no no no, i just spent a week at a conference where EVERYONE wanted to talk about the permission problem.

You spend more money, to subscribe to a system that firewalls the agents from doing things out of their defined scope. but it's based on AI so you have to pay for tokens for that system too.

It is essentially the platonic perfect form of enshittification, just aimed at business customers, instead of consumers.

The ultimate form of capital canibalizing itself, and everything else.

Any CEO that couldn't rub two neurons together and like, immediately realize that this is what would happen, that this is the business model, is definitionally catastrophically incompetent.

They merely proved that they are dumber than highly inefficient autocomplete algorithms, that they're arguably not actually conscious.

They are nothing but cogs in a more ephemeral machinery of mindsets and unquestioned assumptions.

These collosal dumbasses likely won't actually be fired by their boards for this astronomical fuck up, by the logic of the system they are slaves to... because capitalism is simply a mask worn, a charade danced by the same kind of elitist, maniacal, psycho and sociopathic impulse toward extreme power and control that has always cursed our species.

Its ultimately a fear response. A misdirected, very complex fear response. 'Bad things can happen, bad people can do bad things, thus I must erect walls and pay guards and force farmers to toil and waste away to feed the guards, so that I can be safe in my castle.'

These LLMs, they can be used in sensible and broadly beneficial ways. They're not 'superintelligence', but they can be genuinely useful when used responsibly, with safeguards, by people well trained in their use, just like any other human technology.

Perhaps we actually need a 'technology' that punishes, dissuades, redirects or moderates this suicidal impluse latent in us, to create an unsustainable degree of control over others.

A reconceptualization of ourselves and our society.

Perhaps the world needs an idea whose time has come...

... radical egalitarian empathy, solidarity, a collective understanding that we are all ultimately clever apes that ditched the body hair for sweating, who are all much more similar than we are different...

... a flattened power hierarchy with participation from more equal positions and between actors with less singular power, a restructured society that uses the tools and resources we have to guarantee a basic level of material security for all...

... a mindset that understands that freeing the masses from want, securing for all the bottom rung or two of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, that that is the truest form of actual personal safety and security that any individual can possibly achieve, in this world of ours filled with us easily frightened and frenzied apes.

You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.

They gave a stranger with no soul that is owned by another company the keys. It's like they have no idea what corporate espionage is.

Just tell the ai it isn’t being a team player, that should fix it

Enterprises also become dependent on future cartel pricing. If AI is running their company/tech stack, then 10x or 100x pricing increases in AI gives them little time to shift away with few people who understand the company/'s tech stack/purpose.

Loyalty has been gone from the workplace for quite some time and if you're loyal to where you work you're a fool.

You gave your corporate competitors access to all that.

Worth pointing out that you can run models locally on consumer hardware that are as good as frontier models from ~3 months ago (and that gap is getting smaller and smaller) which solves ever single problem listed in this post

Yeah, well, spreading and LLM written Tweet, posted to farm attention while subscribed to X, is not exactly helping things…

this seems to be written with AI as well

Sounds like A.I. would be replacing CEOs very soon.