Patrick Berzai

heterodox | ambidextrous | oxyopian

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@Jamesashields The closest cultural analog to the times we are living through now is the French elite civil war, The Fronde.

It pitted the noblesse d’epee (the kinetic, competence class) vs the noblesse de robe (the credentialed, compliance class).

Maps perfectly.

https://t.co/PvgLRKAuW8

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@Hamultonne It is the corporate world now, too.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

The biggest worry for our professional and managerial classes is that Bukele succeeds.

Their entire raison d’etre is in managing a problem to extract revenue, never to solve the problem to help people.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The worry, if President Nayib Bukele’s ambitions in Haiti turn out to be large, is of a scorched-earth strategy that kills a lot of civilians https://t.co/ZszlL4YDj8

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@AdamSinger That assumes a blank slate. You’re blaming the content.

It’s the individuals who this content resonates with.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@WeGlibertarians The reign of homo bureacratis begins!

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@jojimbo_ @Threads Yes. But the empty vessel is necessary to host the contagion. What happened to these people to see the world this way?

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

I don’t think people on @threads are doing very well.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@jojimbo_ @Threads It’s mental illness.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@jojimbo_ @Threads I do t see these on X. But it’s a good view into how my coworkers view the world.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@Babygravy9 Every time they do this shit they lose.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

Was Jensen Huang undone by Jensen’s wang?

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Secretary of State Marco Rubio had warned Trump officials that Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, was entangled with a Chinese spy, multiple people briefed on the matter said. https://t.co/Zz2cqRZa58

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@OsborneInk The near enemy.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@scttfrnks @TafkaTrap That poor boy.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@Kathleen_Tyson_ @WarMonitor3 Seems like you’re not going to get your multi currency mercantilism. Sorry, London.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@Opportunitweet That poor woman.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@OsborneInk She’s been in the tail end of some bangers.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

This is not surprising.

[Frank Curzio @FrankCurzio]

It looks like the AI layoff boom has started to backfire.

I was just going through a Reuters investigation on Meta, and holy shit...

They drew up plans to cut some teams by as much as 60% and let AI agents do the work. THEN Zuckerberg called off the next round of layoffs hours before the first one even started.

And when you look at the numbers... they tell you why.

Engineers were pushing out 220% more code, BUT major technical and security incidents jumped 40%.

So people spent 70% more time putting out fires.

AI cranked out way more work, and humans spent way more time cleaning it up.

A different report I saw this week showed something similar.

32% of hiring managers said they brought back the exact jobs they cut for AI.

Think about how dumb that is. You fire people, pay a fortune for AI, then pay again to hire the same people back.

Look, I’m no AI bear. I use AI every single day.

It saves me a shit ton of time and I’m not going back. It’s an incredible tool.

But market forces are still market forces.

Every boom in history has been overhyped, and every CEO wanted to stand up and tell Wall Street he could do more with half the people.

Now from what I’m seeing, reality is kicking in.

It costs way more than they thought, it breaks shit, and you still need people who know what the hell they’re doing.

Even the AI companies are feeling it. Elon just cut Grok’s usage limits and admitted it costs more to run than it brings in.

I still think AI is a great bet, and I’m still buying the companies building the data centers. But you need balance, and the guys who went all in on firing everyone are learning that the hard way.

Be careful out there.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@elenascross If it makes you feel any better, we used to go to the Audi box at Yankee Stadium during my first stint at WPP. I would always eat my weight in chicken fingers there. Thanks, Audi.

[Clifton Duncan @CliftonDuncan]

The people living rich, fulfilling lives and the people demanding you be political all the time are never the same people.

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@AdamSinger Ask why someone who doesn’t need to do something does it anyway.

I wasn’t fond of Kirk’s Philo 101 uni debates. But he caused narcissistic injury to a whole class of people who hadn’t empirically thought their POVs through.

Chappelle just flattered those same people tonight

[Patrick Berzai @patrickberzai]

@gelunding There is no way this is serious analysis.