This barely qualifies as a critique; it's a hit piece with no constructive criticism and some anti-capitalist rhetoric thrown in.
> The National Design Studio is a clear case of nepotism, and they're greatly overpromising. Dismantling 18F was a massive mistake.
There, I just said the same thing but cut out the personal attacks and the ridiculous take that Airbnb was somehow built by thieves (does anything actually believe this?).
I'm surprised this article has stayed up this long. Have the mods read it? It's low signal-to-noise ratio.
Mistake to me implies unintended consequences that differ from the original goal. I've never heard anyone say "Opening Auschwitz was a massive mistake", as its consequences were exactly as intended. In the same way, dismantling 18F is not a mistake.
I'm not sure if you've read the AI 2027 report, but that's what this post is responding to. It's not the author anthropomorphizing AI. That's the entire premise of the AI 2027 forecast.
Agreed. PAC isn't really a new idea at its core. I think the author says that directly. But it's also an idea that hasn't really been tried with the tech available. The promise really depends upon minimizing computing power, making it more contextual, and piggybacking on 3d printing to create open-source enclosures.
It’s a lucrative industry if you can sell yourself - Google makes it a necessary industry by changing the algorithms every few months. There will always be a cohort of losers wanting to reclaim a coveted top-5 position. But the landscape has completely changed and that’s what I really liked about this article, it’s just going to take leadership a few more years to figure this out.
Of course the best advice we received was from folks who had recently worked at Google on search.
Absolutely. I attended a webinar yesterday on SEO/content marketing from a very well-known/established SEO "expert" and it was shockingly 101. However, one detail I did appreciate was hearing how long-term the standard inbound, organic content strategy is. Many have said this for years, but they showed some good data to really hammer home the point, folding in the reality that AI content farms make it all the more difficult. The other tiny detail that came up that was useful was seeing data emphasizing how counterproductive dating content is – the further away the present date is from the content, the least likely it is to be indexed and/or ranked. The advice I'd heard until this point was to update and republish content. This webinar showed data proving that publishing dateless content outperforms that approach.
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