Yemeth

> and way-too-subtle shades of grey

MacOS went downhill when Jonathan Ive decided to throw out all colors in favor of the 'content'. To this day I spend too much time deciphering blue-greyish icon shapes in the Finder's side bar.

I'm not sure how LLMs are going to be immune to SEO spam and advertising. As if human nature would magically transform and people would stop buying stupid stuff.

LLMs are already being used to make the web even less useful, by shitting out vast ammounts of meaningless and even outright wrong text for SEO purposes. And don't forget the systems are being trained on the web in the first place… using a LLM that is able to utilize a web search already thinks listicles are useful information and not just a way to place affiliate links.

When the hype is over and the VC money dried out, companies will find ways to make the LLM interfaces and outputs an 'advertising friendly' affair.

Really weak text… there was much more to it than just cultural problems.

Better articles (in German): https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/wal-marts-rueckzug-warum-d...

https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/handel-konsumgueter...

Thx for the analysis. This 'dudebro friends casual talk'-style makes a lot of podcasts hard to listen to – even when the topics are interesting.

I get it. A well moderated podcast is hard work. Throwing random Wikipedia facts at each other is easy to do and long term listeners love all the in-jokes and the atmosphere of 'friends having fun'.

Thankfully there are lots of well researched podcasts with a more 'professional' style.