An essay begging you to stop the AI hype ends in a paid AI ad — and the thread noticed (elenaverna.com)
The piece calls out 'AI confidence theater': performative fluency in vector databases and RAG, hustle culture with '17 agents' swapped in for 5am cold plunges, and a hiring pool that all suddenly sounds the same. Its test: name something AI made truly indispensable.
The thread answered the test — and caught the contradiction. One reader points out the anti-hype essay is a Firecrawl ad; another notes the author was among the loudest AI boosters before demand shifted to think-pieces like this one.
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