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Better Offline — Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
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Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak

Better Offline

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how LLMs and the obsession with AI is actively destroying the fabric of the tech industry. Please subscribe to my premium newsletter - save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter:…

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“I'm so sick of the fucking tech con industry”

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“Ed, you’re 100% right. Your rage is well rooted. As an engineer with over 20 years of experience: the scale of that cult is unbelievable. They literally lost their minds.”

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“15:28 I am increasingly convinced that AI psychosis is at the root of all this. It is gassing up these execs who already are dangerously narcissistic and it is like crack for them”

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