Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

@troy_frizzell @jwz Like on the one hand this is extremely apt and funny and on the other my workplace was dominated by three-energy-drink/day salesmen and when management figured that out they started having us compete to earn energy drinks on every Xth sale.

@cwicseolfor @troy_frizzell @jwz

at least they weren't incentivizing with anti-cheese pills

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate!

(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.

You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]

In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

@jwz@mastodon.social A selection of headlines from finance.yahoo.com today:

- "Dark side of cocaine": Wall Street weighs stock sell-off over disruption fears
- Rampant cocaine demand for memory is fueling a chip crisis
- The Big Tech losers as cocaine fears wipe billions off valuations

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate!

(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.

You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]

In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

That's a feature in Wafrn already

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate!

(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.

You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]

In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

@jwz CocAIne, innit.

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate!

(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.

You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]

In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

@jwz@mastodon.social A selection of headlines from finance.yahoo.com today:

- "Dark side of cocaine": Wall Street weighs stock sell-off over disruption fears
- Rampant cocaine demand for memory is fueling a chip crisis
- The Big Tech losers as cocaine fears wipe billions off valuations

That's a feature in Wafrn already

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate!

(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.

You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]

In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

@jwz There just aren't enough AI-related overdose fatalities for this analogy to really work for me.

@Meyerweb @jwz
if you wanna get down
Down on the ground … AI

Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".

I shall demonstrate!

(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)

"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.

You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]

In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."

@driusan You can even combine the two!

"Investors see hope in rich people's yacht money despite cocaine fears igniting a turbulent week for markets"

"Cocaine wasn't the biggest engine of rich people's yacht money growth in 2025, despite assumptions"

"The cost of cocaine slop could cause a rethink that reshapes rich people's yacht money"

"Cocaine is transforming rich people's yacht money -- not destroying it"

"Cocaine spending frenzy could reshape rich people's yacht money, CIOs say"

That's a feature in Wafrn already