Dead corporation theory.
this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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I remember the initial Google Workspace Gemini ads showing someone writing an email from a few bullet points and blowing it up to pages of text. Then another scene in the same ad has a user summarize pages of text into bullet points.
This is by far the worst and most expensive inverse-compression system ever.
I have never corresponded to another human with an AI response, I think just going through the process of doing that is the most fucking embarrassing thing you could do.
At work people have started just pasting AI responses into slack threads. PR review comments are also entirely AI written. I can understand having your AI review your code before you share with others for review (I would rather a bot point out my stupid bugs/typos instead of wasting someone else's time on them), but if you are reviewing something YOU need to review it.
I'm also getting annoyed because one guy keeps submitting entirely AI written PRs. They're awful. Too many comments that say nothing, they don't match our code styles, there are obvious refactors that would make the whole thing cleaner and more readable. It's just fucking lazy and a waste of time to keep telling him to fix it, because by the time I point out all the issues I could have just rewritten it myself.
My hypothesis is that the least competent people use AI the most, and it's a big multiplier on their incompetence.
Attention is all you need? The modern world demands more attention than anyone has. Our attention was colonized by social media, shadow work (in the economic rather than Jung sense), and the constantly changing software, portals, and platforms that are required to interact with the corpos/gov. So attention was automated (albeit poorly). And while it's not news, it's increasingly apparent to everyone that how we focus our attention is a significant part of who we are.