Mr. Pieces

Tomorrow will be better than today

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

@aleksteske So just another Tuesday

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

@adimanav45 @DrEliDavid Interpreting and comparing numbers is not your forte.

[Paul Masurel 🦀 @fulmicoton]

Here comes a new challenger.
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[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I'm pretty sure everyone at my company saw this article and now they all think we're in an AI crisis.

We're not in an AI crisis. We use Claude to summarize Slack threads.

But here's what's actually interesting: this whole panic reveals something nobody wants to admit.

Every company in America has been bullshitting about their "AI strategy" for two years.

We all saw the hype. We all knew we had to say something. So we rebranded our existing automation as "AI-powered" and called it a day.

My company isn't special. We're all doing the same thing.

The problem is now the executives actually believe their own bullshit. They think we have "significant AI exposure" because they've been telling investors we're "AI-first."

I just got pulled into an emergency meeting. Six executives asking me to explain our "AI dependency matrix."

There is no AI dependency matrix.

There's Claude for meeting summaries, there's some sentiment analysis in our support tickets that came free with Zendesk, and there's whatever Gmail is doing when it autocompletes my sentences.

But I can't say that in a room full of people who told their boards we're "transforming the business through AI."

So I said we have "distributed AI touchpoints across multiple vendors with no single point of failure."

Which is technically true. We use a bunch of different services that all have AI features we mostly ignore.

The CFO asked if we should "hedge our AI exposure."

I have no idea what that means. Neither does he.

What am I going to do: nothing. Because in three weeks, Anthropic will say something reassuring, the stocks will recover, and everyone will forget this happened.

But I'll have documentation showing I recommended a "risk assessment" that mysteriously never got prioritized.

The funniest part is that half these executives probably don't even know what Anthropic is. They just saw "AI" and "crash" in the same headline.

We're all pretending. The whole industry is pretending.

And articles like this just remind everyone how fragile the pretending is.

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

@giulio_mattioli @Charlie40074981 The answer to you initial question is rather simple. You won’t change peoples behavior without being opreasive. Technology makes things cheaper, easier or more broadly accessible. With that, behavior change comes naturally.

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

@RobinBrooksIIF Let’s talk again in 10 years, when many countries got their former German production sites, AI and other cutting-edge tech is everywhere but in Germany and most bright minds moved to a
country that doesn’t ask for +50% of their salary.

[mymind @mymind]

Take back what is yours.

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

@zachtratar We are working on a solution. Data doesn't have to move. Configurable computational access. Adaptive to privacy regulations. Let me know if you want to exchange thoughts with our CEO (yeah, website needs work) https://t.co/pGy4U6Oev9

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

@rrhoover @zachtratar @vedikaja_in Just started at Apheris in Berlin and we are specializing on exactly that. https://t.co/DM8tjRK0kD DM me if I can be of any help

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

Standing in line at the @SparkasseK at Venloer Street. An old man on a walker stands in the service area and instead of offering a chair, he gets thrown out because he is not directly “Next”. Decided to cancel my account.

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

Wenn dir jemand eine @Mastercard Gold von der @SparkasseK anbietet. Lauf so schnell du kannst. Wirklich noch nie schlechteren Service erlebt.

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

Smart photo! Thanks to @Nabu for making this photo available freely on @unsplash 🎁 https://t.co/SDi1JsNxPl

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

@Marcus_Noble_ @giantswarm @upbound_io @finleapconnect @containersoluti @StormForgeIO Our team had a fantastic time with everyone there. Big kudos to the whole @giantswarm team making this possible!

[Rich Bentley @imrichb]

New blog from @StormForgeIO CEO @matthewprovo on listening to customers and striking the right balance between innovation and growth. 🚀🚀🚀 https://t.co/k9oofSpFLh

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

@GaryGensler it would be interesting to know what would happen when a share count of a public stock shows significantly more shares than issued by this company. What would happen then? #Tesla #AMC #GameStop #goodtoknow

[Dave Lauer @dlauer]

Today’s the day. It’s time #WeTheInvestors rise up and take action against the dark underbelly of Wall St trading: https://t.co/lWdK2OVXZA 🧵⏬ (1/)

[Mr. Pieces @JanoschFrosch]

@GFYM2022 You so made my day! 😂