If you’re reading this, it’s likely your X feed is flooded with AI posts. Grifting has reached unimaginable levels. Claude is one-shotting normies left, right and center. It’s truly a slopocalypse out there.
A little background that’s relevant: I worked as a programmer for a crypto/NFT company for quite a long time. I never owned any crypto, certainly not NFTs, but I know quite a bit about that industry. To be super clear, I have nothing but gratitude for most of my ex-colleagues, especially my ex-CEO & ex-CTO, who reached out to me and gave me a job because they saw some open-source work I did. As a loser out of college, this was honestly a life-changer for me, Alhamdulillah.
Anyway, one thing I’ve noticed is that there’s a shocking amount of overlap between between these two industries. Crypto/NFTs are mostly dead, but the bros have literally all moved to AI. And it’s all the same toxic-positive nonsense: if you know the crypto industry, you know how this shit goes. Everything is about lines going up, always bullish, always positive about “making it”, etc.
Garry Tan’s recent posts (or people making fun of his posts) are also good examples of what I’m talking about. Everything just feels delusional?
This was one of the aspects of the crypto industry that I absolutely hated. You could not bring up honest feedback, because everyone practiced toxic positivity. Some parts of the AI world feel exactly similar to me. Well, it kinda makes sense, because it’s literally the same people!