CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@JessTheUnstill I love the idea of them. It would be akin to my love of the idea with living in an RV or van home. Waking up in a new place and ready for new adventures sounds awesome.
The reality, as you point out, is far less romantic.

More eloquent than I could write. I recommend reading this essay in its entirety. As a defender of an organization, and more importantly the people who depend on me for my security work, I need to both understand the technology and provide the best safety measures I can against the harms inherent in the technology.

I know where my lines are. I'm privileged enough if one of those lines is crossed that I can with a good conscience leave. Now, I've aligned myself with industries that will generally not cross those lines.

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

(taggart-tech.com)

@rottedmood The industry is being kept alive with investment income. It's not profitable. Using the different AI services is relatively cheap right now because of it. Once companies make a hard push into profit territory, those AI service costs will go up. The value proposition is be much less than it currently is.

I'm seeing it with companies abandoning all you can eat pricing and going to use pricing. AI service costs will go up. Companies who build services assuming the old price structure will have to decide whether continuing will be profitable. If a sufficient number of customers decide it's no longer profitable, the companies offering those services will have a choice to make. They'll have to either raise costs more to make up for lost customers or shut down. Neither is a winning position.

@StefanThinks Mine is LeVar Burton. But otherwise, same.