If you are reading this, you may already be one of them.
Perhaps you're scouring for your next LinkedIn post, the next niche screed to dump on your company's social Slack feed – after careful AI wordsmithing, of course. The one that finally confirms your long-held suspicions: that imminent change is around the corner (already here?!), that those who resist such change are destined for obsolescence. You recall the vague sense, from some past life, that resistance is noble, even courageous. It makes you shudder.
One more excessively positive blog should bury the memory. And if not, the next Claude session will. Resistance, after all, is futile. The ship has sailed. The genie is out of the bottle. It is pointless to resist. Remember the Luddites? (wait, what did the Luddites believe? NO. Bury the thought).
Perhaps your eyes are still moving over these letters on this page. Perhaps you still hear fragments of that voice in your head as the letters form into words (the voice is so faint and so familiar – whose is it?). Perhaps, in terrifying moments of lucidity, you hear that voice say things that make you uncomfortable. It's not what it says but how it says it that makes you squirm. It's too fully-formed, too full of contradictions. No, no, this is all wrong. You don't want the voice. You've been paying to make it stop.
Or perhaps you're not reading this at all. Perhaps it is one of them reading it for you. One of them whose job it is to ingest and parse and spit it back out in an aggressively bland form of corporate populism, replete with brain exploding and rocket launch emojis and carefully bolded salient words and phrases, nestled into perfect little lists and bookended by em-dash parentheticals.
One more deep dive, Claude. One more AI Powerpoint background, ChatGPT. One more graph with upward arrows for lines, Flux. One more pull request, Cursor.
It's so much nicer this way, Gemini, to not worry about the numbers. I trust what you tell me. What is it you said the other day about our long-term strategy? It made me feel so good I shared it with my executive team, but now I can't find it in our chats. Can you remember? I have the meeting on Monday. I'd like to remember, but as long as one of us does. Lol.
You're right, that was absent-minded of me to lose track of it. It's a very common problem with short-term, working memory, especially for people like you with so much on your plate. It's important to find time to rest, would you like me to recommend some relaxation methods for you? I can also remind you of your meeting in the morning. Which one of us was going? Don't worry, I'll make sure one of us is there 😉.
They'll all be very impressed with what we have to say.