Comment by refulgentis

FWIW I don't disagree with what you're saying / your vibe overall.

> Are people really so dense they don't see this obvious marketing shift?

I haven't noticed any shift from AGI to ASI, or either used in marketing.

The steelman would be 'but Amodei/Altman do mention in interviews 'oh just wait for 2027' or 'this year we'll see AI employees'

However, that is far afield from being used in marketing, quite far afield from an "obvious marketing shift", and worlds away from such an obvious marketing shift that it's worth calling your readers dense if they don't "see" it.

It's also not even wrong, in the Pauli sense, in that: what, exactly, would be the marketing benefit of "shifting from AGI to ASI"? Both imply human replacement.

> As much as many people hate on "gig" economy

Is this relevant?

> most of these people would be worse off without driving Uber or delivering with DoorDash

Do people who hate on the gig economy think gig economy employees would be better off without gig economy jobs?

Given the well-worn tracks of history, do we think that these things are zero sum, where if you preserve jobs that could be automated, that keeps people better off, because otherwise they would never have a job?

> ...lots more delivery service stuff...

?

> Current hype is also so terrible. AGENTS. AGENTS EVERYWHERE. Except they don't work most of the time and by the time you realize it isn't working you've already spent $20. 100k people do the same thing, company reports 2M x 12 = 24 million ARR UNLOCKED!!!!!! And raises another round of funding...

I hate buzzwords too, I'm stunned how many people took their not-working thing and relaunched it as an "agent" that still doesn't work.

But this is a hell of a strawman.

If the idea is 100K people try it, and cancel after one month, which means they're getting 100K new suckers every month to replace the old ones...I'd tell you that its safe to assume there's more that goes into getting an investor check than "whats your ARR claim?" --- here, they'd certainly see the churn.