Post #3927227

2026-07-18 19:13 UTC

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.

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@Two9A@hachyderm.io 2026-07-18 19:20

@timbray@cosocial.ca It's not just lucid, it's by @ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club [can't tell if intentional wordplay on your part]

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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca 2026-07-18 20:39

@timbray@cosocial.ca 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.

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@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud@masto.ai 2026-07-18 20:44

@timbray@cosocial.ca 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!

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