As a pragmatic realist who’s been pattern-matching and #sensemaking for decades, it’s gonna be •extremely• difficult to surprise me with new developments.
Like, when something good, positive, or non-harmful is revealed, discovered, or published, that will be unexpected.
Everything else is just meh.
@paninid well, the "genAI" hype took me by surprise. I knew that common sense is overrated, but that amount of bullshit...
In the Summer 2023, about 9 months after the release of ChatGPT, I clocked that LLMs were data products, subject to GIGO, and my experience in data governance at multinational corporations was instructive in throwing the bullshit flag then.
Power does not cede authority to the geeks who know better.
It puts them on mute and looks for marks.
It always has.
