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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Max Kennerly's reply:

For a client I recently reviewed a redlined contract where the counterparty used an "AI-powered contract platform." It had inserted into the contract a provision entirely contrary to their own interests.

So I left it in there.

Please, go ahead, use AI lawyers. It's better for my clients.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"blabla makes Claude feel much closer to a thing than a tool” (emph mine).

Yes those are useful categories to differentiate between. Might have been useful if the journalist had asked them to explain wtf they mean with this. But yeah the habit of letting tech people get away with vague definitions Is hard to break.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got stuck on the same sentence. What the hell was that?

I'm going to assume he thinks "person" and "thing" are synonyms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I was thinking stuff like servant, mom, slave, wife something like that. But would have expected agent instead of thing, as that seems to be the term people go for and put hopes on, even Schneider is on the agent train (but we should make it ethical!)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

now imagine Casey Newton but even less technically competent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Is Jim Cramer already all in on AI?