He thinks tech industry has lost its charm and only making useless products, and has become hostile to users. I agree. In one episode, he talks about Prabhakar Raghavan, who has made a mess of Google search.
You might not agree with him all the time, but he has some good arguments and seems sincere in his criticisms. Better offline is worth a listen
Strongly stated and flamboyantly expressed opinions that confirm the biases of the OP.
Zitron's posts have been hitting the frontpage regularly this year [0]. They don't tend to stand up to any kind of close scrutiny; the facts are made up or misrepresented or the logic is faulty. Why would they stand up? He's a PR flack turned influencer, not somebody with the expertise to actually reason about technology. But a lot of people (on HN and elsewhere) hate big tech, and Zitron will happily tell you that big tech is doomed while simultaneously engaging in a lot of entertaining name calling of tech execs.
Ahh so the standard anti tech grifters (usually packaged for tech workers that are "totally not like the other tech workers") that are overly cynical, snarky and out of their depth.
It's a shame because that whole genre had a very good standing when it came to crypto. But then that died off, and they still had to "debunk" and "dunk" on everything so now they just sound unhinged. NFTs were ridiculous so everything that touched NFTs was easy to ridicule imo, but they still have that same overly snarky/ridiculous/two more weeks approach to AI, with very little technical knowledge or depth to what they say. That's fine for crypto, because you don't need more than surface level knowledge to know that the concept is flawed (without knowing the detail of what a smart contract is, or how it's implemented), but when that approach is used on something that people actually use and see the progress in a tangible way, it just sounds unhinged.
Not that "openai API AI bros" aren't the mirror image of those grifters, with the same exact lack of technical knowledge and a shallow understanding of the stuff they keep talking about. Just that they grift from the hype, not the cynics
