Doomporn, AI-native efficiency theater, and AI productivity kabuki

Notes on LLM RecSys Product – Edition 5 of a newsletter focused on building LLM powered products. Four posts into this series on how LLMs are changing product building, we’ve spent all our time on what we build. We’ve talked about why I think LLM-powered recommender systems are going to be the core primitive of product building going forward, dug into the power of teacher models, building eval loops, and writing product policy. The next stops are exploring how and who. But before we do, it is worth pausing. There is an enormous amount of noise around AI right now. And that noise is the AI bullshit trinity that we should talk through first — Doomporn, AI-native efficiency theater, and AI productivity kabuki. Doomporn Doomporn is the successor to hustleporn from a few years ago. We can’t seem to get enough of content that tells us that there is going to be a job apocalypse. We should save up and get a bunker now. Why this is happening The biggest purveyors of this narrative are the big…