Roast of the AI
AI and technology coverage without the worship service or the funeral march. These articles examine models, agents, jobs, infrastructure, pricing, power and the very human incentives behind machine-shaped claims. The useful tools stay useful. The theatre gets checked. Sources are included where current facts, figures or company claims matter, because a confident demo is not the same thing as a settled future.
Smarter AI, dumber work: GPT-5 and the waste loop
GPT-5 thinks harder but wastes compute on redoing the whole picture. The numbers show rising energy and shaky instruction-following. Here is the roast with…
Freedom 2.0: Some Rights Reserved. When Freedom Becomes a Token.
Governments preach freedom yet panic when money gets free too. The real fight is not cash vs code but control vs consent.
AI is not a bubble. It is a debt-fuelled buildout at scale
AI is not a dotcom replay. It is a debt-fuelled infrastructure buildout with rising energy bills, record capex, and no quantum shortcut. Numbers, not…
Plumber safe? For now. Learn to fix the robots and code
Leaders say trades are safest from AI. Hinton points to plumbing. Altman flags customer service risk. Truth: no job is static. Learn to fix…
Stuck in 1995: paper minds in a sensor world, real cost
UK firms still live on paper and extra checks while sensors and software cut downtime and costs. The lag shows in flat productivity. Here…
AI panic vs reality: big firms run, SMEs count the bill
Big firms sprint into AI while smaller ones watch the invoice. The numbers say slow diffusion, high costs, mixed job impacts. FOMO is loud.…
App spins, burger waits; tech bros preach ‘AGI’ salvation
Tried to order food. Got a ten minute update, a reboot, and a sermon about “AGI”. Build basics first: small apps, fast networks, stable…
Scrooge AI: loud watermarks, quiet credits, full tills
Ethics theatre: watermark the outputs, hide the training sets, bill the users. Provenance for you, profits for them.
AGI promised, autocorrect delivered
They promised AGI. We got chatbots that forget what they said three lines ago. The spark may come, but the circus is loud.
One roast at a time
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