Audrey Watters returns to the pod for a chat about ‘AI realism’, and how we are all trudging up the long, weary slope of the AI adoption curve whether we believe in the promises or not. What will we find when we reach the ‘plateau of productivity’? Less work and more smarts so we can spend our infinite leisure time in cultural pursuits? Or a slightly more datafied version of the workplace we started from? Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of AI hype? Are young people vibing with it? And what is ‘vibe coding’?
Get all the answers - well, some of the answers and a lot more questions - in this week’s podcast. And look out for more themed conversations with Audrey, including an episode on AI’s bad boys and why we love to hate ’em. Coming soon, if DOGE doesn’t get to us first.
Links
Mark Fisher’s concept of Capitalist Realism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism
Rob Horning’s piece on ‘vibe coding’:
Referenced from Audrey’s Second Breakfast newsletter: https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/ai-against-democracy/
The ‘water we’re swimming in’ as an analogy for ideology is attributed to a commencement speech by David Foster Wallace: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/20/fiction
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