Comment by simonw

1 day ago

I think that both you and the other major tech outlets interpreted that poorly.

Oh really? How about the king of non-tech-outlets and digestible, shallow bites for the not-reading-books-middle-class, the Business Insider?

https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai...

You know their business is literally correct interpretation of the C-Suite statements.

  • I think Business Insider are not a particularly high quality publication - they're prone to clickbait - and that headline is an example of why I think that.

    Hah, I just checked their homepage and here they go again amplifying that COO fragment from that podcast:

    https://www.businessinsider.com/tokenmaxxing-debate-uber-exe...

    > "That link is not there yet, right?" Macdonald said in comments that went viral, racking up over 2 million views on X. "I think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'OK, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features.'"

    Yeah, something going "viral on X" is clearly a sign that it's quality information!