Serg Bataev

Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

joined a call and it's just me and a dozen AIs

@k_chernohorenko Шкода що заклади які проводять ВЛК не знають про направлення з Резерв+ та кажуть "нам без різниці", можемо вас записати на ВЛК через 2 місяці Гарний приклад коли одна структура робить ніби щось корисне та на цьому піариться, а інша просто забиває на будь які висновки першої

Військовозобов’язані зможуть самостійно створити електронне направлення на ВЛК у Резерв+. Ці зміни підтримав Уряд. Спочатку послуга запрацює для громадян, які захочуть пройти огляд за власним бажанням, а згодом розшириться для українців, які вже отримали повістку на ВЛК. В обох випадках зникає необхідність відвідувати ТЦК, щоб отримати один папірець.

working at a big company is basically an accelerated course in how power actually works. once you see the sheer level of inefficiency, rent-seeking, & arbitrary decision-making, it kind of breaks all illusions about big companies. the best part is realizing that half the people in charge have no clue what they’re doing but just sound confident. once you internalize that, you stop overestimating the competition & start realizing that most barriers to entry are just psychological.

The rules are simple🙄👇

Ordinary russians

As soon as these 'good Russians' opened their mouths, it immediately reminded me that the only true Russian opposition is the 'Russian Volunteer Corps' and the 'Legion of Freedom of Russia.'

Russians always lie

Why so many Ukrainians speak russian? Ukrainian language was banned by russia 134 times! Here are most notable events: ⭐️ 1720: A decree by Tsar Peter I banned the printing of books in Ukraine. ⭐️ 1753: A decree by Catherine II prohibited teaching in the Ukrainian language. ⭐️ 1768: A decree from the Synod of the russian Orthodox Church called for the confiscation of Ukrainian primers from the population. ⭐️ 1775: Closure of Ukrainian schools after russian troops destroyed the Zaporizhian Sich. ⭐️1830-1840s: russification of Ukraine intensified. Even the very name "Ukraine" was prohibited to be used. ⭐️ 1889: At an archaeological congress in Kyiv, it was permitted to read papers "in all languages except Ukrainian." ⭐️ 1895: A ban on Ukrainian children's literature. ⭐️ 1914: A ban on the Ukrainian press. ⭐️ 1938: Mandatory study of the russian language was introduced throughout Ukraine. At the same time, there was a mass closure of national schools, and the prestige of the Ukrainian language declined. ⭐️ 1926-1939: Physical deportations of Ukrainian activists accused of nationalism. Four family members on my mother’s side were deported. ⭐️ 1929: Newly printed dictionary of Ukrainian was prohibited. ⭐️ 1960s:Extermination of the young generation of Ukrainian intelligentsia. 130 years ago, Ukrainian-speaking area was not limited by Ukraine, but also some parts of russia and Belarus spoke it (see the red area, that's the result of russian Empire census in 1897, when people identified themselves by the language). So, when someone says that some region of Ukraine is “russian speaking”, read the above list again. It’s a miracle that Ukrainian language even survived, and many people sacrificed their lives for it. 🇮🇩❤️🇺🇦🔱

I am surprised that Microsoft gave up on its version of consumer GPTs so quickly. I think making them enterprise only is going to cut off an important source of innovation. A lot of the best OpenAI GPTs come from random individuals experimenting with the tools.

In WWII the Allies bombed Nazi Germany's oil depots as a high priority military target. That's the tweet.

"Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file." (с) Louis Srygley

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Thank you, Tucker Carlson, for giving Jon Stewart this masterclass in journalism.

/5. “A Russian A-50 aircraft was destroyed as part of a joint operation by the General Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine and the Air Force of Ukraine. This was reported to LIGA.net by a source in the security and defense forces.” news.liga.net/ua/politics/ne…

After Putin’s talk. I found Mongolian historic map. Don’t worry. We are a peaceful and free nation🌏