Comment by hansmayer
1 day ago
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!
So no one got it right? Myself, tech outlets, non-tech outlets, everyone on twitter, etc?
That's why I wrote a whole section about it. I was deeply disappointed at how little thought people had appeared to put into this before amplifying the misleading headlines.
For someone who cares about media hype - https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author%3Ahansmayer%20hype&type... - you don't seem to be very discerning with regards to this particular story.