I keep hearing how Claude is so much better and I need to try it. Furthermore, last night I had an AI Expert spend an hour telling me how Claude could just do things by itself and how great it is.

So I paid the money got Claude. I gave it a task to summarize a bunch of press releases and put them into a newsletter. After spending a lot of time getting the formatting, perfect I went to fact check what had been written.

About a third of it was totally hallucinated

This was today

All it had to do was read press releases and make a summary and it couldn’t do that without hallucinating a bunch of fake DEI facts that just weren’t true

So I tried to give it the task of verifying all of its declared statements and it ran out of juice so I have to wait till it resets.

My manager has gone 100% into AI where he might have been slightly skeptical at first, it's slightly scary, I see many of the benefits of modern AI, specially in helping me deal with my ADHD, but I feel like what differentiates me from the masses is gone. Middling coding skills, doesn't matter, ability to recall obscure knowledge I read or learned about years ago, doesn't matter, why would I be a valued employee while still having to deal with the negative side effects of ADHD? On top of that, immigrants getting hunted for sport on the streets, I'm not doing too good.

"Oops. We thought the workers would demand lower pay."

I unfortunately work with AI and actually understand how it works. It's going to replace workers the same way that cocaine replaces workers.

It'll make some knowledge workers moderately more productive but that excess will be absorbed like with any other tool and we'll just do more shit as a society at the expense of continuing to destroy the environment.

Once the bubble bursts and things calm down there will probably be some job growth as the economy figures out how to better utilize these new tools. It's like if you invented a machine that could frame 60% of a house and brilliantly declared you'd fire all the framers but then realized you're now building a lot of houses and need more framers than before to finish the remaining 40%.

Early last year I had to attend a company conference, it is a yearly thing where mgmt get to stand on a stage and have their peons aplaud them after telling everyone how amazing they are.

That year was particularly insulting.

The CEO brought up a person who he said had inspired him and how great the guy was.

The only thing that guy spoke about was how proud he was to have moved high income jobs to low income countries.

That, in front of a crowd of high income employees in a high income country.

And we were expected to applaud him....

And what is ridiculous was that most people genuinly did seem to enjoy the talk.

Granted, this was a company in the finance sector, and I work in IT, but come on people, at least have the decency of looking uncomfortable when someone is happily talking about moving similar jobs to yours to other countries to your face.

Got damn clankers