Totally a Thing
Sarah SmithWhy embrace the fake, when we crave the real? Startups with useless vanity metrics, app features customers don't want and fake AI slop no-one asked for. Let's decode this mess.
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AI mania. It happened before. In 1895.
About 130 years ago, a scientist made a discovery that he could expose photographic paper to emissions from a glass tube and it went straight through human flesh and formed an image.
It was astonishing, interesting, and he reported it and...
Trust, Psychosis and Addiction: the generative AI costs that prove we cannot afford not to regulate
Generative AI addiction and psychosis is creating a new wave of societal destruction. It’s as big as gambling and other ills, but the vendors of the product are fighting regulation with every PR trick, and dollar in their war chest.
Derive...
Gen AI for Software Engineering is not Replacing Engineers, its Burning them Out
In 2026 we’re seeing the LLM and Generative AI industry flame out in a horrendous death spiral. The tech press headlines catalogue its flailing desperation, and the boosters still hyping it are clinging to tiny incremental updates and milqu...
2026 vision
Totally a Thing has been here a year and it's achieved more than I hoped. I will be focusing on fiction writing and pausing subscriptions indefinitely.
It’s widely known now that generative AI at scale is a con, a scam. There are plenty of...
Emergent behaviour? Or stolen IP?
The Attention is All You Need paper started the LLM gold rush, but it initially came from Google scientists who only expected it to do language translation. As more data was used in training sets, and the number of parameters grew orders of...
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