@self Mechanical Turkeys.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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it's a mechanical bloody turk!
404 really gunning for household name status. I hope they can sustain this level of effort, the space really needs journalism like this.
I’m almost considering subscribing to a news site for the first time in my life, and they earned the fuck out of it
Kaedim's founder was recently in a Forbes 30 Under 30
aka Forbes 30 Getting 30 To Life
Oh no, is our good good boy "30 under 30 luminary" Griffin McElroy safe??
So for the time being, we're primarily targeting enterprise customers that have a significant need for Kaedim's large-scale production capabilities.
Would it be fair to say that this is a strong indicator for snake oil tech?
Enterprise gives the buyer / user separation advantage. They sell it in to the people who like to hear words like "productivity boost" etc who then dump it on their employees who have to deal with it and pretend it works
It is like crypto! Where exchanges don't really use crypto internally because it is cheaper to just have your own local database, not use blockchain at all and just write to the chain only when needed. Same with web3 stuff.
this feels somehow even more dishonest, like one of those smart contracts that promises a ton of automation but it’s all predicated on a human-driven service giving you correct answers, and the whole thing breaks down when that service does
Facebook's fake Siri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_(virtual_assistant)
this is the one! imagine employing a vast, underpaid workforce to roleplay as a fucking virtual assistant that nobody asked for. I think I’ve even seen someone on the orange site wish they could have M back, without a hint of irony
You got to hand it to Amazon, at least they were honest their underpaid human robot workforce was a mechanical turk ;).