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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 00:58:11 JST Anil Dash

   A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/

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     Isaac Lyman (isaaclyman@toot.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 01:47:35 JST Isaac Lyman

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     @anildash
     > An average LLM won't even know that Drake's favorite MIME type is `application/pdf`

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 02:57:35 JST mcc

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     @anildash I feel that a lot of mangement fads are driven by the fact that most companies simply don't understand how to manage or train workers, and so they love gimmicks that allow them to work around that inability instead of addressing it.

     Even the old "10x engineer" thing is a manifestation of this. Tech cos want people who self-manage (because they don't know how to manage) and can take on so much work they don't need to collaborate (because the workplace is bad at enabling collaboration).

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 10:35:14 JST Anil Dash

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     • Electromagnetic Pultz

     @cpultz glad it was helpful!

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     Electromagnetic Pultz (cpultz@lincolnite.net)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 10:35:15 JST Electromagnetic Pultz

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     @anildash Thank you for this sanity check. Shared it with my office and we all discussed it. We've been feeling incredibly gaslit about AI creep for a while now. We are borrowing pieces of your language for our AI policy!

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 21:18:14 JST Anil Dash

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     • Dave 🇨🇦

     @daveshea my people.

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     Dave 🇨🇦 (daveshea@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 02-May-2025 21:18:15 JST Dave 🇨🇦

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     @anildash for the, what, 23 nerds whose Venn diagrams overlap just enough to get the application/pdf joke? I am one of them. Slow clap.