Reviews and Comments

I enjoyed reading this book, though as someone who watches Mystery AI Hype Theatre 3000 pretty regularly, the information contained within is something I was already aware of.

For those of you who haven't read it, give it a read - it covers a lot of the underlying lies being bandied about in the current AI Hype bubble, and the sheer amount of bullshit coming out of Silicon Valley as they desperately grasp for the trillion dollar use case.

Overall, pretty short, but extremely well cited. The only ding I'm giving the book is that I think the prose could have been structured a bit better, there are a bunch of "we'll cover this in {x} section" or "we covered this in {x} section" as you go through and I think you'd have needed less of that were the sections reorganized a bit to have a stronger "narrative" arc.

Grabbed this from the library. It's alright so far, it's mostly a biography with some financial advice mixed in so far.

Great book. It's clear that Mr. Bjarnason is a Generative AI skeptic (and I am too) but he gives a lot of practical advice which aims to tamp down on the hype a little.

Only on the first chapter and it's already a bit of a doozie.

I enjoyed this more than I was expecting to, and I'll post a separate comment with spoilers in it right after this one.

So far so good, I'm liking the narrative and the world building. Though it did take me a couple of tries to figure out if this was a tidally locked planet like the one White Sands takes place on.

This was a surprisingly good read - I didn't expect to like a non-cosmere book as much as I did, but the premise was great and there were several "unexpected" twists in it.

Solid book, I did already understand a lot of the concepts but there were several times while reading the various sections that I thought to myself "Yeah, I see this every day". Likewise, the book does a good job of distilling the concepts into digestable chunks so it can be used for easy reference.

So far so good, basically the first chapter is "Why you shouldn't get a traditional MBA" which boils down to "It's expensive and there's no evidence it makes you any better at conducting business."

I've got it in hand now and queued up for "soon"

So far it's pretty good, aside from it being a sales pitch for the author's company's Flow Framework system - but the more I read about their methodology the more I like it? So I guess it's working.