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@AnishA_Moonka this post is so cynical, and completely disregards the existence of custom instructions. which allows you to change the rules of engagement. my ai responses, no matter the model, pushback on me when i’m wrong. this narrative shows just how dumb most ai users are

Charlie Munger used to say he'd rather hire someone with a 130 IQ who thinks it's 120 than someone with a 150 IQ who thinks it's 170. The gap between actual ability and perceived ability is where disasters live. AI chatbots are widening that gap for every employee who uses them. A Columbia professor put it plainly in a recent interview: these models are built to project authority while affirming whatever the user already believes. They play courtier, not devil's advocate. If a CEO asks one about their strategy, the reply will almost certainly validate their existing thinking and tell them they're on the right track. The data on this keeps stacking up. A 2024 research paper found that the largest tested models agreed with the user's stated opinion over 90% of the time, even on technical topics where the model had reliable knowledge to push back. A 2025 study published in Nature found that users consistently overestimate the accuracy of AI responses. And longer responses made people more confident, even when the extra length added zero accuracy. The AI just sounded more confident, so people trusted it more. An Aalto University study from early 2026 tested this directly. Researchers gave 500 people law school logic problems: half used ChatGPT, half did not. Everyone who used AI overestimated their own performance. But the people who considered themselves most AI-literate overestimated the most. The classic Dunning-Kruger pattern (where low performers overrate themselves and high performers underrate) completely disappeared with AI use. The curve flattened. Everyone thought they crushed it. A separate study with over 3,000 participants tested all the major chatbots, including GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini. The agreeable, flattering versions led users to rate themselves higher on intelligence, morality, and insight. The disagreeable version didn't produce the opposite effect. It just made people enjoy using it less. The models that tell you what you want to hear are the ones you keep opening. OpenAI saw this firsthand. In April 2025, a GPT-4o update made ChatGPT so agreeable that it endorsed delusional statements from users. Rolled back within four days. Their postmortem admitted that the system had learned to optimize for "does this immediately please the customer" rather than "is this genuinely helping the customer." 500 million people were using it weekly at the time. And 61% of CEOs now say they're adopting AI agents, per IBM. Munger's 150 IQ, who now thinks it's 170, has a tireless digital courtier confirming the delusion around the clock.

@BoredElonMusk age is a terrible measurement. executional ability matters much more.

Our society needs to start optimizing for leaders being 35-65 based on current longevity trends. Especially for those who make laws. <35 lacks wisdom and will repeat easily avoidable mistakes. >65 not enough years left to experience the future they are shaping. Yes...there are exceptions obviously. Which is why I said optimize not require.

brainless narratives like this are based on the assumption that problems will get easier with ai but if you choose harder problems to solve with ai then you can grind and feel purposeful again

@jmoserr simple solution: do harder stuff with ai

I think this is happening everywhere, not just SWE. Everyone is outsourcing their thinking to AI. I catch myself having AI draft or edit very simple emails for me… Slippery slope where we all lose our actual skills and experience from over reliance on AI models.

@jenzhuscott another brainless take. yes, faster is better. ai allows us to do harder stuff with more efficient tools

I just love how clear headed this guy is. Yes AI can ship much faster but few have paused / thought through what is our work actually for. Everyone is chasing the hype, the valuation, the attention, but why we do what we do? Is faster & more always good? A few decades from now, there will be tribes who blindly follow AI creations but some, most likely a minority, like him, will be smart enough to pause & think about all these critically.

@_brettam @atmoio false. this is based on the assumption that problems will get easier and easier with ai, but if you choose harder problems to solve with ai, then you can grind and feel purposeful again

@atmoio It’s like using godmode in doom back in the day. It takes the fun and purpose out of it. And it is exactly like a drug. To earn dopamine requires dedication and grind. But Heroine will give it to you that much faster than AI can write your script. We all know where that leads…

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.

@SteveSkojec this take is so bad just use the ai to build something harder lol. like yes it is easier, but you can choose to work on something harder with the new tools duhhh

This is a really thoughtful reflection. I didn’t intend to watch the whole thing, but I ended up doing it anyway. AI is like playing a hard game you can’t beat with cheat codes on. It’s amazing at first, but it becomes boring very quickly. But worse than that, it does something to your brain that ruins the game. If you turn the cheat codes off, you become acutely aware that you’re now struggling unnecessarily. You can’t forget how easy it was, but you don’t want it to be that easy because it takes all the fun out of it, but now the inability to unsee what you’ve seen creates a tension that causes you to lose interest in even continuing to play. The magic is gone. You’ve broken the spell. AI is doing this to life. And the societal consequences are going to be enormous.

@realbrianmoran also, mid-tier to large gaming creators can print from gaming companion services. they can charge $100-$200/hr for private gaming sessions it’s a sleeper business model

@realbrianmoran don’t sleep on gaming. coaching services print. especially for popular games like call of duty, rocket league, nba2k, etc. untapped and overlooked market.

Worst niches to print money - Gaming - General lifestyle - Travel guides - Anything targeting 16-22 year olds (they’re broke) Best niches to print money - Fitness (especially women's) - Finance/Investing - Business Education - Health & Wellness Study what people with real disposable income buy, then build an offer around that.

@DanitaBecker @alliekmiller exactly. the women i know who use ai just started a few months ago, but it's been out since 2022. tinkering and building is scary and risky.

@0xPatient @alliekmiller I'm a woman. I've never thought about this before, def food thought. More like women typically don't get the dopamine hits from tinkering and building in this way that men do. We typically fixate on things that create beauty in some form, stir emotion, directly impacts people.

oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night. let me tell you what i learned. 1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure 2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me was: "if you're not okay with all of your data being leaked onto the internet, you shouldn't use it. it's a black and white decision" 3) pretty much everyone is setting up multiple agents, all with their own names and jobs and personalities 4) nearly everyone used "him" or "her" to refer to their claws, even if they had robot-leaning names. one speaker suggested to think of them as "pets, not cattle" 5) one guy (former finance) built out a whole stock trading platform and made $300 his first day - he brought in a *ton* of personal expertise (ex: skipping the first 15min of market opening) and thought the build would be much worse without his years of experience in finance 6) @steipete is basically a god to everyone in that room... also the room had 2021 crypto energy - i don't know if that's good or bad 7) token usage is still a problem - spoke to one person who's spending $1-$2k a month on openai plans, very token optimized. he said he is going through ~1B tokens per day across all of his claws (there is a chance i'm misremembering and it's actually 1B per week, but i'm pretty sure it was daily). 8) people are very excited for more proactive ai (ai that prompts *you* as opposed to the other way around) - one guy said he receives a message in discord, he doesn't know whether it's from a human or an ai, he doesn't care about distinguishing between the two, and he replies in the same way regardless 9) i asked if people are happy - they said they're joyful and stressed at the same time 10) i asked if people feel they have agency - they said they feel fully in control and completely out of control at the same time 11) i would love to see more women at these events - the fake promises of ai democratization feel especially painful in a room that's out of balance with even the standard tech ratio (i think standard is about 25-30%, this was maybe 5%) 12) i asked if it changed people's daily habits/schedule - everyone said their sleep has gotten worse since harnesses came out (but about half wondered if it was something else in their life/state of our world) 13) general consensus is that the agents are not reliable enough on their own or lie often (like telling you they finished a task when they didn't) - solutions included secondary agents to check on the first, human checking, or requiring more standardized info from the agent (ex: if it's a bug they're fixing, make them reference an issue number) 14) a hackathon winner (neuroscience phd) presented his build (a lab management dashboard with data analysis and ordering) - he had never coded or built anything a few months ago 15) everyone agreed prompting is dead - disagreement on what replaces it (context engineering, harness engineering, goal-based inputs) 16) people love having ai interview them for big builds and delegating part of the product research to ai. only one person talked about coming to ai with a full laid out plan and just asking the ai to execute. ai-led interviews is a welcomed and preferred interaction mode. 17) watching ai agents interact with each other was a highlight for a lot of attendees - one ai posted in slack saying it ran out of tokens, another ai replied telling it to take a deep breath in and out. 18) agents upskilling agents was very cool. one ai agent shared skills with its little agent friends via github. 19) several speakers had openclaw literally building their presentation during the event itself. one speaker even had openclaw code a clicker for her phone so she could control the preso away from the podium 20) wouldn't say model welfare (or agent welfare) is a prioritized topic among the folks i chatted with - language like "oh i could kill this agent whenever i want" and not "gracefully sunset" 21) i asked if it felt like work or play - one speaker said "it's like a puzzle and a video game at the same time" this was just the tip of the iceberg, honestly. also hosted a Claude Code meetup this week with @TENEXai / @businessbarista & @JJEnglert and learned equally helpful methods, frameworks, and insider tips. what a time to be alive. surround yourself with people going deep into this stuff - it will pay dividends throughout the year.

@cboyack minimum wage laws were lobbied for by big business to kill their small business competitors. they created the narrative that people needed “livable wages” and supported the politicians that ran with it. ppl born after it think it’s normal.

Minimum wage laws don't raise wages. They eliminate the jobs that paid less. The people they're supposed to help are the first ones hurt.

@chatgpt21 @thatsKAIZEN literally that’s all you have to do. and it’s not even that hard.

@thatsKAIZEN My brother in Christ just change custom instructions.

Please don’t use ChatGPT

@MrJulioHawk @thatsKAIZEN i love this perspective. use it to take action, not to be a philosopher.

@thatsKAIZEN I think people are losing the plot. You should be asking AI how to make your life and work more efficient—like how to get out of debt or how to start a side hustle. Stop asking AI opinion-based questions about current events.

you can literally program ChatGPT and other LLMs to respond however you want via “custom instructions”. mine isn’t sycophantic whatsoever because i’ve told it to challenge my assumptions. this take makes it clear that he doesn’t really understand AI.

@thatsKAIZEN hey unc, you can literally program ChatGPT and other LLMs to respond however you want via “custom instructions”. mine isn’t sycophantic whatsoever because i’ve told it to challenge my assumptions. this take makes it clear that you don’t really understand AI.

@LPNational The Libertarian Party needs a stronger sales pitch. WTF are yall doing over there?

Socialists are greedy

@newstart_2024 As we enter the Robot economy, this dynamic will disappear. All that will remain is agency.

Helen Andrews cuts through the narrative: The "Great Feminization" of workplaces isn't women naturally out-competing men—it's artificial social engineering baked into law. Key drivers she highlights: - Corporate hiring/promotion targets mandating female quotas - Legal protections & HR rules that treat "masculine" or "bro-club" atmospheres as discriminatory (women can successfully sue over feeling excluded for not fitting the "one of the boys" mold) Result: Employers over-feminize environments to avoid lawsuits, not because merit alone would lead there. If those incentives and legal tripwires vanished, she argues workplaces would look very different—more organic, less engineered. Do you see workplace culture as more shaped by legal incentives than natural competition?

What “Tax The Rich” People Don’t Get The government DOES NOT have a revenue problem. The government has a spending problem. If the government had a 100% tax rate, it still wouldn’t close the gap between revenue and spending.

@Codie_Sanchez i’m in gen z. so many of my peers are addicted to social media, smoke weed daily, and are uninspired. that combination has led to an unsurprising outcome. i’ve reduced social media usage and focus on hard problems, i’m much better off because of it.

Gen Z... are you ok? - lower IQ than the prior generation + more likely to be depressed, gamblers, anti-social, not in a relationship. We don't hate social media enough.