Watching AI eat the world.
Short thoughts on agents, slop, hype vs reality, and what actually works.
Sometimes technical. Sometimes absurd. Always real.
A lot of "AI adoption" isn’t adoption.
It’s workplace theater. Employees must sound excited.
Managers must report gains. Founders must say the roadmap is transforming. Investors must believe the curve is inevitable.
No one wants to be the person asking if the tool actually works. Because skepticism makes you look like someone who can be replaced.
This isn’t a technology rollout. It’s social pressure with a dashboard.
Who’s actually winning in your company - the AI or the performance?
The next version of the web may not be built for people.
It may be built for agents that click faster, compare faster, negotiate faster, and never see the page.
That sounds efficient.
Until the website stops being a place you visit and becomes an API your assistant rents access to.
The web was already losing its public front door.
AI agents may finish the job.
The future may not be full of robots.
It may be full of systems that never forget.
Every meeting.
Every message.
Every preference.
Every mistake.
Every awkward sentence you once wrote.
Europe gave us the right to be forgotten.
AI is quietly building the right to remember.
AI will not make everyone smarter.
It may make everyone more confident while understanding less.
That is the dangerous part. Not stupidity.Fluent dependency.
A society can survive slower thinking. It cannot survive outsourcing judgment and calling it progress.
@winning_tactic I do not think the EU is some moral savior. My point is simpler: AI is being built to remember everything. That should worry us no matter who claims to regulate it.
@AutoMaxInnovate Maybe. But ideas were never the only bottleneck.
Taste, judgment, distribution, trust, timing, money, and follow-through still decide what actually matters.
@unusual_whales If AI makes everyone 10x more productive, then companies should be hiring to build 10x more. Not cutting staff and calling it efficiency.
@vivoplt Probably the same people who survived IDEs, Stack Overflow, and frameworks. The ones who adapt, learn the tool, and still understand the work.
@unusual_whales Airbnb may not be the only reason rents are high. But converting housing into short-term revenue definitely does not make homes more affordable. Blaming “government intervention” while profiting from a broken housing market is a very tidy arrangement.
@mahotank “Free on the internet” does not mean public domain. The internet did not erase copyright, licenses, attribution, or consent just because the work was publicly accessible.
Imagine scraping decades of human creativity to train AI…
Then acting shocked when creators can no longer make a living from it.
We didn’t accidentally break the economics of art and writing. We designed it that way.
@buildwithparas And it is not just ads. Traffic, design, branding, SEO, affiliate links, subscriptions, checkout flows, even customer relationships all change when agents become the visitors.
The webpage becomes less important.
Probably not many people are buying AI art as "art" in the gallery sense. But that is too narrow a frame.
Art is also book covers, ads, album art, thumbnails, posters, concept art, product images, game textures, pitch decks, packaging, social media visuals, etc.
That is where the displacement happens first.
@IndianTechGuide It looks like a dependency story and the dependency curve is moving faster than the accountability curve.
Rules, norms, labor impacts, education policy, data rights, all trying to catch up after the default has already formed.
@thsottiaux “Synonym with AI” is less romantic than it sounds. It means the category is being collapsed into a product.
And once the product becomes the default, everyone else has to build around its language, limits, pricing, and rules.