Violently chundering a few thoughts about AI

AI fatigue is real. Everyone and their dog and their dog’s dog seems to be spewing about it everywhere these days. Not only that - every second piece of content online is AI-generated, rendering your grandma unable to perceive the difference between reality and what is essentially GTA gameplay clips. Everywhere you look, some form of AI is on its knees begging for your attention. I’m not a purist by any means; I use AI hundreds of times in a week. But all the slop becomes tiresome.

We also use AI extensively in some of the automations we put in. It’s excellent at doing human hack work that you can’t write a program for: transcribing, scraping websites, consolidating emails, being a technical product ‘brain’ etc. Where it sucks is where it’s not needed. 9 out of 10 Linkedin posts have a shitty AI rendering (guilty) of ‘productivity’ or ‘low hanging fruit’, with a shitty AI monologue (not guilty) explaining how earning more and spending less will make you more money. It’s made me value originality and personality a lot more. It’s 10x’d my respect for people that write/generate their own content.

That’s the content side. It’s still super chill at doing automations. Let us know if you have an AI automation idea but you don’t know how to get it off the ground.

-Fred