Hands on the wheel

(I’m still looking for my next gig. You can get in touch by emailing job@ryanbigg.com.) As one of the people in the world not yet infected with the AI-mindvirus (Aperta Anthropicum), I feel qualified to share my opinion on AI by carving a post out of the raw marble of my keyboard with my bare hands. I wrote this on LinkedIn at the start of this month: After interviewing now at a few places these things are simultaneously true: EVERYONE is on the hype train Nobody knows how to REALLY use AI and people are trying to figure that out There are a lot of experiments that sound promising on the cover, but nothing past “we’re gonna go THATAWAY” There is an unlimited budget for this exploration, until there won’t be I’ve now interviewed at a few more places, and those interviews have only compounded these viewpoints. Hype train: spurred on by some serious FOMO, C-level executives see others who are using AI and spur their employees onto using it as well. The employees then use it for writing…