Brutkey

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

so I posted previously about a bad number for paying users of AI services vs. free users - it was 3%, but it's bad enough I headlined it as "3%*".

is there a robust number anyone knows of? I vaguely recall seeing 5-7% but can't remember where

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

oh no! anyway, https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/07/the-high-costs-and-thin-margins-threatening-ai-coding-startups/

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

when I call the AI true believers a doomsday cult, it's because they are literally a doomsday cult. Here's a great writeup from Brian Merchant, who somehow found himself at one of the LessWrong AI doomsday cult conferences in Nov 2024.

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-disagreements

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260

We present an interesting case of a patient who developed bromism after consulting the artificial intelligence–based conversational large language model, ChatGPT, for health information.

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

"I used a new video editor today"
"new or ffmpeg"
"... ffmpeg"

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Microsoft’s 2030 Vision: no mouse, no keyboard — just the AI chatbot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU-kqS0G_Uo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250806-microsoft-2030-vision-no-mouse-no-keyboard-just-the-ai - podcast

text coming later

110% cringe and I aint sorry

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/02/protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-encrypted-not-open-source/ - text
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250802-protons-lumo-ai-chatbot-not-end-to-end-not-open-source - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDPZbUPUFyk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/ - text
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250711-ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96j1cIMYV1U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

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